Eli Sagie is a Senior Embedded Escalation Engineer at Microsoft with over 6 years focused on Azure security and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, bringing deep expertise in root cause analysis, escalations, and customer satisfaction. He leads and mentors a global support organization, driving training, playbooks, and data-informed strategies that improved team efficiency and customer outcomes. Technically hands-on, Eli authors and maintains PowerShell automation for Defender for Cloud (including custom JIT roles and vulnerability integration scripts) and partners closely with engineering to eliminate recurring issues. Comfortable in multicultural environments, he balances people leadership with day-to-day technical triage across Tier 2–3 incidents. Notably, he combines field support oversight for ~100 engineers with continuous contributions to the public Azure Defender community repo, reflecting both operational scale and open-source impact.
Welcome to the Microsoft Defender for Cloud community repository
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Contributions:1 review, 26 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Eli primarily focused on creating and modifying PowerShell scripts to configure and manage Azure Security Center (Defender for Cloud) features. Their contributions included the creation of a custom role for Just-In-Time (JIT) access, as well as scripts for vulnerability assessment solution integration and policy management. The user also updated existing scripts, fixing bugs and adding validations to improve functionality. Their work demonstrates a strong understanding of Azure security services and PowerShell scripting.
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