Cloud Security Engineer

Cloud Security Engineer

Job Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ, Omaha, NE, Alpharetta, GA, Marietta, GA (100% Onsite - local only, no relocation)

Employment Type: FTE

Key Technology: Azure, IAM, Security

Job Responsibilities:

Responsible for implementing technology initiatives to secure our key government client's cloud environment.

Be accountable for assisting in strategic planning and architecture and securing enterprise information by identifying network and application security requirements, implementing and testing security controls and procedures.

Enable Cloud Cybersecurity controls and compliance requirements and remediation programs based on business priorities and risks to address Cyber-Security, Cyber Defense and Business needs of the customer.

Skills and Experience Required:

Required:

5+ years' cyber related experience in a commercial environment with Azure, in a technical information security and risk management role.

5+ years managing security policies and initiatives in Azure.

Knowledge of Identity Access and Management concepts, multifactor authentication, SSO/Federation

Knowledge of Privileged Access Management key concepts

Ability to set up and configure the Azure security platforms, and function as an overall lead managing end to end security on the Azure Cloud regions.

Understanding of Network and Application Vulnerability testing as it relates to Azure systems.

Experience with security concepts & tools related to CI/CD pipelines, and software scanning.

Able to demonstrate understanding of Information Security and Risk Management capabilities related to cloud computing across Windows and Linux, with demonstrated direct experience with the following domains:

Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM)

Authentication and Authorization including SSO and Identify Federation

Zero-Trust Model

Defense-In-Depth

Governance and Compliance

Securing Data

Securing the Operating System

Protecting the Network Layer

Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation, Alerting, Audit Trail, and Incident Response

Cloud Core Platform: Compute, Storage, Networking

Desired:

Government environments and Gov-Cloud experience

Experience with CrowdStrike Falcon EDR for Azure

Ability to Manage/maintain FISMA and FedRAMP compliance for a government information system

Demonstrated experience collaborating directly with external clients, business leadership, and auditors.

5+ years of firsthand working with the various Azure security tools/platforms such as:

Extended Detection and Response (XDR): Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Defender for Identity

Data Protection: Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Information Protection, DLP, One Trust, Kubernetes

Identity and Access Management (IAM): Zero Trust, Azure IAM and AWS IAM, Entra ID (Azure AD), Multitenant Organization (MTO), Lighthouse, Key Vault, Conditional Assess

Monitoring Compliance: Sentinel, MDC

Entra ID (formally Azure AD), M365

Education:

Bachelor's degree in a technology field, Masters degree preferred.

Certifications:

CISSP, CCSP, Azure/AWS/Google Security specific Training and Certification