Microsoft Copilot Engineer

Title Microsoft 365 Copilot and Power Platform governance engineer Duration 6+ month contract Location 100% remote role (US business hours, Eastern Time overlap required)

The Opportunity

Our client is rapidly scaling adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Cowork, and Copilot Studio agents — and needs someone to build the governance foundation to match that pace. You’ll stand up agent governance across the tenant: sharing and exemption controls, a full agent inventory with risk scoring, remediation of the highest-exposure agents, data protection controls, and the runbooks/documentation to make the program self-sustaining after your engagement ends.

What You’ll Do

• Configure and maintain agent access, sharing, publishing, lifecycle governance, an approved-publisher model, and an exemption workflow in partnership with Information Security
• Govern Copilot Studio declarative and custom-engine agents — Managed Environments, environment routing, connector/DLP policies, and least-privilege access
• Build and maintain a tenant-wide agent registry, risk-scoring custom actions, data source scope, embedded files, sharing breadth, and labeling gaps
• Baseline, prioritize, and remediate high-exposure agents, reporting progress to IT leadership
• Align agent controls with the organization’s confidentiality obligations
• Produce maker guidance, governance standards, runbooks, and documentation; support broader teams on agent access and adoption

What You Bring

• 5+ years of hands-on Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra administration, with recent, demonstrable focus on Copilot and/or Power Platform governance
• Hands-on experience administering Microsoft 365 Copilot (Copilot Control System) and building/governing agents in Copilot Studio and Agent Builder
• Power Platform admin center experience: Managed Environments, DLP/connector policies, and environment strategy
• Experience with Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels and DLP, and operationalizing governance controls at scale
• Automation skills with PowerShell and Microsoft Graph
• Strong documentation, stakeholder communication, and knowledge-transfer skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with Microsoft Copilot Cowork and/or Microsoft Agent 365
• Familiarity with confidentiality/ethical-wall frameworks, pay-as-you-go metering, or Copilot Credits
• Relevant Microsoft certifications (AI Administrator Associate, Power Platform, Security/Identity, or Information Protection/Purview)
• Experience in a regulated or confidentiality-sensitive industry (legal, financial services, healthcare, etc.) is a plus but not required