Masterapp Labs
Masterapp Labs

Senior Azure Cloud Security Engineer

Hybrid in Mechanicsville, VA, US • Posted 7 hours ago • Updated 7 hours ago
Contract Corp To Corp
Contract W2
Contract Independent
12 Months
No Travel Required
Hybrid
$65 - $75/hr
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Job Details

Skills

  • Cloud Security

Summary

Title: Senior Azure Cloud Security Engineer
Location: Mechanicsville, VA, (Hybrid)
Position Type: Contract
Interview Mode: Either Phone or In Person

Key Responsibilities:

  • Identify cloud security vulnerabilities, assess risk based on business impact, prioritize remediation, track remediation activities, and validate corrective actions
  • Lead complex cloud security initiatives and provide technical directions to engineers. Also assist in the design of secure cloud architecture for complex enterprise environments 
  • Influence architecture and security decisions and prevent insecure configurations from reaching production and implement security gates within deployment pipelines.
  • Explain complex security risks to non-technical stakeholders
  • Assess cloud security risks and security gaps and recommend appropriate remediations. Create and maintain security documentation and evidence as well as support audits and assessments.
  • Review proposed cloud solutions for security risk and define appropriate security and compensation controls. 
  • Will develop Azure policies to enforce standardization and compliance with enterprise requirements, as well as creating Azure Automation runbooks to support incident response workflows.
  • Monitor security events using SIEM technologies and work with VDOT’s SOC team to coordinate incident response activities.
  • Identifies and diagnoses system problems and threats by using system logs, line monitors, SIEM, diagnostic software, and test equipment. 
  • Lead investigation and containment of cloud security incidents.
  • Review firewall and NSG rule requests and ensure compliance with security standards.
  • Must have the ability to provide documentation, architecture topology diagrams, IP schemes and access controls when required. 
  • Must have the ability to work independently on assigned projects.  
Required/Desired Skills
Skill
Required /Desired
Amount
Actual Years of Experience
Enterprise Cloud Experience
Required
8
 
Enterprise Cloud Security Experience
Required
5
 
Candidate must be highly experienced as a cloud security professional with strong hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure and cloud engineering
Required
 
 
Candidatte must be highly experienced in cybersecurity, networking, identity, security operations, and have a deep cloud engineering competency
Required
 
 
Candidate must have in-depth experience moving between strategic architecture and hands-on engineering and identifying security risks
Required
 
 
Candidate must have in-depth experience designing practical solutions, implementing controls, and working with infrastructure teams
Required
 
 
Candidate musth have in-depth experience working with application teams to continuously improve the organization's cloud security posture
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience setting up Network Security Groups (NSGs), resource manager and management groups, monitor and log analytics,
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience setting up Azure Firewall, Azure WAF, Azure Monitor, Application Gateways, virtual networks and network segmentation.
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experiences in: Incident response, Security investigations, Log analysis, Threat intelligence, Security monitoring, IOC analysis
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experiences coordinating during cyber incidents
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience in vulnerability management, remediation tracking, vulnerability scanning tools (e.g. Nessus, Tenable, Defender)
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience securing enterprise cloud environments and implementing security controls in production environments
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience with the SIEM products (e.g. Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CNAPP),
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience with log management, security analytics, SOC integration, Threat detection, and Threat hunting
Required
 
 
Candidate must also have hands on expertise validating indexer parsers, leveraging Splunk Query Language for monitoring and data analysis.
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience collaborating with the security governance team and application leads to implement enterprise log management standards.
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience with; SEC530, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, Zero Trust principles
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience in cloud vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and risk assessment and prioritization
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience in cloud risk assessment and prioritization, attack surface management, and Cloud Security Posture Management (VSPM)
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience in Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) and Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience developing Azure Policy to enforce standardization and compliance with enterprise requirements
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience creating Azure Automation runbooks to support incident response workflows.
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience with Identity and access management (IAM), Role-based Access control (RBAC), and Privileged Access Management (PAM)
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience with Least-privilege access and multi-factor authentication
Required
 
 
Candidate must have experience working in highly regulated environments with large government agencies or similar regulatory environments.
Required
 
 
Candidate must have ability to communicate technical issues to technical, non-techical, and executive audiences.
Required
 
 
Candidate must have ability mentor junior engineers.
Required
 
 
Required: Azure Security Engineer Associate, Security+, Certified Cloud Security Professional certifications
Required
 
 
Preferred: CCSP, Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure (AZ-305)
Desired
 
 
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  • Dice Id: 91091585
  • Position Id: 2327-37720-1792605950
  • Posted 7 hours ago
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