Senior Microsoft 365 Platform Engineer – Automation, Agents, & Copilot

Applied Materials is the global leader in materials science and engineering solutions that are at the foundation of virtually every new semiconductor chip and advanced display in the world. The equipment that we create and service is essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation semiconductor chips. Join us and push the boundaries of materials science and engineering in a company at the foundation of the electronics industry. The work we do together advances the world’s technology.

Salary: $122,000.00 - $168,000.00 Location: Austin,TX, Santa Clara,CA You’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible—while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more.  At Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits .

We are seeking a highly experienced Microsoft 365 Platform Engineer to help engineer, administer, automate, and continuously improve our enterprise Microsoft 365 environment. This is a hands-on technical role for someone with broad expertise across the Microsoft 365 platform and a strong record of operating services at enterprise scale. The successful candidate will combine deep Microsoft 365 administration skills with modern automation capabilities, including advanced PowerShell, Power Automate, Microsoft Graph, and the development of Microsoft 365 Copilot agents. You will work across platform engineering, operations, governance, security, and user enablement. You will help reduce manual effort, improve service reliability, introduce responsible AI-powered solutions, and establish repeatable engineering patterns that can be supported at scale. If you enjoy solving complex Microsoft 365 challenges, building scalable automation, and shaping responsible AI solutions, this is the role for you.

Microsoft 365 Platform Engineering Administer, configure, and optimize Microsoft 365 services in a large enterprise environment. Provide engineering expertise across Microsoft 365 workloads, including: Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft Teams SharePoint Online and OneDrive Microsoft 365 Apps Microsoft Entra ID Microsoft Purview and associated compliance capabilities Define and maintain platform standards, configuration baselines, governance controls, and administrative operating procedures. Evaluate changes, releases, and service updates; assess their technical and operational impact and develop implementation plans. Lead and support pilots, migrations, feature rollouts, service enhancements, and adoption initiatives. Partner with security, identity, compliance, networking, endpoint engineering, architecture, and operations teams. Copilot and Agent Development Design, build, test, deploy, and support Microsoft 365 Copilot agents that address business and IT use cases. Develop solutions using Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Builder, SharePoint agents, and Copilot Studio, as appropriate. Deploy and support Copilot connectors that securely ground agents in approved enterprise data sources. Develop governance frameworks, standards, and review processes for Copilot agents, including ownership, data access, compliance, security, and lifecycle management expectations. Implement lifecycle processes for agent intake, review, deployment, monitoring, change management, and retirement. Automation and Power Platform Engineering Identify manual, repetitive, or error-prone processes and replace them with reliable automation. Design, develop, and support cloud flows, approval workflows, scheduled