Please find the position details below:
Job Title: Azure Cloud Security Engineer
Location: Westlake TX or Merrimack NH (Hybrid – 2 weeks onsite , 2 weeks remote)
Duration: long term contract (with possibility of extension and Conversion)
Interview: Screening round with John and one other member, then longer second round that combines tech+ behavioral.
Special Instructions:
This is a new role on the Azure Security Squad team in CAPE.
They'll be looking to have this person here for the long-haul, long-term contract.
Required skills: Need someone with a background in Azure Identity Services in Enterprise Level environment, who has worked at smaller companies isn't going to be the right match so please do not submit. I think the ideal person would come from an engineering background, not a linux admin. Those candidates traditionally do poorly on interviews.
The top 3 skills according to John are:
- Identity Services / Entra ID / Azure AD
- Enterprise scale Authentication/Authorization in Azure
- Generic azure platform security
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Experience in IT infrastructure, security, compliance
- A strong understanding of Azure services and security capabilities
- Solid hands-on experience with at least two of the following:
- Engineering/operational support of cloud account configuration in AWS or Azure
- Software Development, Linux Systems Administration, Data Networking
- Hands-on configuration of CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native deployments
- Very strong with scripting languages, including integration with CSP APIs; python preferred
- Azure Networking
- Identity and Access Management - RBAC
- Azure Policies
- Azure Security Services - Security Center, Key Vault, Log Analytics
- Azure ARM/PowerShell
- Python Scripting for Automation required
- Ability to work with application and security teams to promote a secure posture in the cloud
- You can mentor and train other team members to work effectively in the cloud
- You are a self-starter who can independently by reading technical documentation
Bonus skills
Advanced Azure Certifications
Description
Senior Cloud Security Engineer (Azure)
The Role
As a Cloud Security Engineer, you will work within a diverse team comprised of passionate technologists who believe in the power of innovation and constant collaboration. We believe that small, empowered, self-motivated teams can achieve outstanding things. We are passionate about opensource contribution, sharing our expertise and knowledge with the engineering community while adopting a continuous learning approach supported by a dedicated learning day each week.
The Azure Security and Service Enablement squad is seeking a highly technical, hands-on security engineer with experience on large-scale and/or business critical Azure environments. On this squad, you will bring your cloud security skillset to a group of talented engineers that are continuously innovating and improving our capabilities to enable the acceleration journey to the cloud. You will work on a wide variety of cloud native stacks and technologies, leveraging cutting edge architectures and services. This squad is the starting point for all security capabilities, guardrail definition and service enablement for our Azure environment.
- Designing, scaling, and deploying various cloud security controls and services
- Building processes and workflows along with a consolidated and collaborative integration of IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS cloud services
- Ensuring seamless user experience with advanced security and compliance of our cloud infrastructure
- Maintaining and containing business risk as it pertains to the Azure cloud infrastructure
- Working across teams and Business Units to define requirements and deliver solutions
- Building comprehensive security controls to enforce policy
- Supporting business unit technologists deploying to the public cloud