Azure Cloud Security Engineer

Elits; Brampton; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ELITS Canada Inc. is seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Security Engineer for a remote consulting assignment based in Canada.

You will strengthen and continuously improve the security posture of Microsoft Azure environments, implementing security controls and governance. Responsibilities include analyzing Defender for Cloud findings, increasing Secure Score, configuring Azure Policy, and coordinating patching and hardening of Azure VMs and workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field with at least five years of relevant professional experience.
• Senior level hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and enterprise scale environments.
• Strong knowledge of Azure Compute, Networking, Storage, and Entra ID (Azure AD).
• Practical experience with Defender for Cloud to identify and remediate cloud security risks.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, prioritize, and remediate security recommendations from Defender for Cloud.
• Improve and maintain the Microsoft Secure Score through proactive security measures.
• Design, implement, and maintain security controls across Azure cloud environments.
• Configure and manage Azure Policy to enforce governance, compliance, and security standards.
• Coordinate patching, vulnerability remediation, and hardening of Azure VMs and workloads.
• Review and improve security configurations for Azure Compute, Networking, Storage, and Entra ID environments.

Skills

Azure Cloud Security

Azure Defender for Cloud

Azure Compute

Azure Networking

Azure Storage

Microsoft Entra ID

Azure Policy

Azure CLI

PowerShell

RBAC

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science/IT/Cybersecurity/Engineering

Tools

Azure CLI

PowerShell

Defender for Cloud

Azure Portal

Job description

About ELITS

ELITS Canada Inc. is part of Accelerate, within the IVER Group in Sweden. IVER Group has approximately 1,300 employees and continues to grow. Through Accelerate, we work at the forefront of technology on digitization and transformation projects for market leading customers. We help customers turn digital ambition into successful implementation through close collaboration, humility, and pride in what we deliver.

About ELITS

ELITS Canada Inc. is part of Accelerate, within the IVER Group in Sweden. IVER Group has approximately 1,300 employees and continues to grow. Through Accelerate, we work at the forefront of technology on digitization and transformation projects for market leading customers. We help customers turn digital ambition into successful implementation through close collaboration, humility, and pride in what we deliver.

About The Role

ELITS Canada is looking for an experienced Azure Cloud Security Engineer for a remote consulting assignment based in Canada. Candidates must be authorized to work in Canada and able to perform the role remotely from within Canada.

In this role, you will strengthen and continuously improve the security posture of Microsoft Azure environments. You will work proactively with security recommendations, cloud governance, vulnerability remediation, infrastructure hardening, and security reporting to ensure cloud platforms follow established security principles and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, prioritize, and remediate security recommendations from Microsoft Defender for Cloud.


• Improve and maintain the Microsoft Secure Score through proactive security measures and continuous follow up.


• Design, implement, and maintain security controls across Microsoft Azure cloud environments.


• Configure and manage Azure Policy to enforce governance, compliance, and security standards.


• Coordinate patching, vulnerability remediation, and hardening activities for Azure virtual machines and other cloud workloads.


• Review and improve the security configuration of Azure Compute, Azure Networking, Azure Storage, and Microsoft Entra ID environments.


• Produce clear technical documentation, security reports, remediation plans, and status updates for stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field, with at least five years of relevant professional experience.


• Senior level hands on experience working with Microsoft Azure cloud services and enterprise scale cloud environments.


• Strong knowledge of Azure Compute, Azure Networking, Azure Storage, and Microsoft Entra ID, formerly known as Azure Active Directory.


• Practical experience using Microsoft Defender for Cloud to identify, assess, and remediate cloud security risks.


• Experience working with the Azure Portal, Azure Command Line Interface, also known as Azure CLI, and or Microsoft PowerShell.


• Solid understanding of Azure Policy, cloud governance, identity and access management, and role based access control.


• Strong knowledge of network security, encryption, vulnerability management, security hardening, and the principle of least privilege.

Qualities

• Communicative, positive, and customer oriented.


• Strong analytical skills, logical reasoning, and problem solving abilities.


• Responsible, autonomous, and resourceful.


• Team oriented, organized, and committed to quality results.


• Creative and proactive, with ideas to improve products and processes.


• Able to coordinate and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

Are you a social, flexible, and structured person with a great interest in information technology? Do you find development, constructing, and use of the latest technologies challenging?

This position is fully remote from Canada and is open to Canadian residents, including persons with a valid work permit in Canada.

ELITS, Part of Accelerate @ IVER Group