Azure Security

Azure Security Engineer

Azure Security Rate – 60/hr Location – Atlanta, GA Client – Cognizant's client Will reveal during the Interview Long time Contract

Required Skills:

• Azure Virtual Network Architecture, (prefixes / CIDR blocks) and subnets

Job Description:

• Azure Security center or cloud security technology (MUST)

• Need to work with customer to setup / configure the Azure Security Center.

• Ability to manage and apply Security best practices as per defined standards - Azure Security Center.

• Work on the Security Center Alerts and remediate.

• End Point Protection

• a. Understand from customer if they need any COTs antivirus products, before starting any baseline policy/config validations for Defender.
• b. Work with customer to finalize the End point Protection solution.

• Good knowledge / hands-on experience in Network Security Groups and Micro-segmentation concepts

• Good knowledge / hands-on experience in UDR and Load balancers

• Good knowledge / hands-on experience in VPN Gateways and ExpressRoute connection

• Good knowledge / hands-on experience in Azure Firewalls

• Good knowledge / hands-on experience in Service tags and service endpoints

• Good knowledge / hands-on experience in NAT and PAT concepts

• Good knowledge / hands-on experience in Terraform/PowerShell and automation scripts to support the Azure environment

• Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.

• Ability to manage and apply Security best practices as per defined standards.

• Ability to work within a cross-functional team of Cloud Engineers, App Admins, DBAs and DevOps.

• Ability to work closely with business/application teams to gather requirements

• Ability to design and implement solutions, manage technical operations, triage and fix operational issues.

• Should have ability in developing and maintaining documentation for multiple environments.

• Identify repetitive tasks and build automation scripts.

• AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security - Certified

• Thorough understanding and experience with AZURE native controls

• To independently resolve tickets, provide on call support and doing root cause analysis to ensure positive customer feedback.

• To provide support for on call escalations and doing root cause analysis of given issue.

• To independently resolve tickets within agreed SLA of ticket volume and time.

• To adhere to quality standards, regulatory requirements and company policies.

• Work on value adding activities such Knowledge base update & management.

• Good analytical skills, knowledge on OMS queries using KQL

• Identify the improvement areas and prepare documentation.

• Experience in solution engineering application architecture for horizontally scaled environments that are highly virtualized.

• An expert level understanding of the AZURE core services and technologies

• Proven Experience in designing solutions utilizing most of AZURE technologies

• In depth understanding of technologies: threat management, identity management, monitoring, configuration management, capacity planning and performance tuning, high availability architectures.

• Hands-on experience with designing Virtual network and security solutions.

• Good knowledge on firewall and access controls

• Good to have Azure Sentinel knowledge and skills

• Knowledge of Powershell would be an advantage.