Overview
Remote
Up to $50
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Skills
ADF
ARM
Analytics
Auditing
Backup
Capacity Management
Cloud Computing
Collaboration
Command-line Interface
Disaster Recovery
Documentation
High Availability
Information Security Governance
JIT
Management
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server DBA
Microsoft SSIS
Network
Performance Tuning
RBAC
Recovery
Regulatory Compliance
SAN
SQL
Scripting
Security Controls
Servers
Storage
Transact-SQL
Virtual Machines
Windows PowerShell
Job Details
Azure Security Engineer
Location: Remote
Rate: $45 $50/hr
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Azure Security Engineer to manage, secure, and optimize enterprise-grade Azure environments. This role focuses on Azure VM administration, security governance, SQL Server support, automation, and operational monitoring for cloud workloads. The ideal candidate must have strong hands-on experience with Azure security controls, infrastructure operations, and automation.
Primary Responsibilities
Azure VM & Infrastructure Management
Required Skills
Location: Remote
Rate: $45 $50/hr
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Azure Security Engineer to manage, secure, and optimize enterprise-grade Azure environments. This role focuses on Azure VM administration, security governance, SQL Server support, automation, and operational monitoring for cloud workloads. The ideal candidate must have strong hands-on experience with Azure security controls, infrastructure operations, and automation.
Primary Responsibilities
Azure VM & Infrastructure Management
- Provision, configure, and manage Azure Virtual Machines (sizing, availability sets, scaling).
- Implement and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability strategies.
- Optimize compute resources for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
- Deploy and manage Azure services including Synapse, Disks, Storage Accounts, ADF, Fabric, and related services.
- Monitor performance, usage, availability, and perform capacity planning across environments.
- Perform installation, configuration, backup/restore, and performance tuning.
- Troubleshoot SQL workloads, linked servers, SSIS packages, and extended events.
- Develop automation solutions using PowerShell and T-SQL.
- Configure and enforce Azure security controls (NSGs, ASGs, JIT access, Azure Defender).
- Manage identity and access through Azure AD, RBAC, managed identities.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards and audit requirements.
- Implement monitoring and alerting with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and diagnostic settings.
- Troubleshoot VM, storage, networking, and Azure service issues across production/non-production environments.
- Build and maintain automation using PowerShell or Azure CLI.
- Support Infrastructure as Code using ARM templates and Bicep.
- Work closely with application, network, and security teams to support cloud operations.
- Follow established processes, documentation standards, and operational playbooks.
Required Skills
- Strong experience with Azure security and infrastructure management.
- Expertise in Azure AD, RBAC, Azure Defender, NSGs/ASGs, and security governance.
- Hands-on Azure VM & services administration.
- Solid SQL Server DBA background.
- Strong scripting skills (PowerShell / Azure CLI).
- Experience with IaC (ARM/Bicep).
- Strong troubleshooting and operational support capabilities.
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