CMS-Senior-Cloud Engineer

EY; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

EY seeks a senior Cloud Security Posture Management professional to monitor Defender for Cloud across Azure and AWS, validate alerts, and drive remediation within ticketing workflows. You will prioritize high-severity signals, enrich data, and coordinate with platform, IAM, and application teams.

Strong CNAPP awareness and familiarity with CIS/NIST/ISO controls are a plus. Join EY to contribute to a broader security program while maintaining documentation, SOPs, and handover notes for smooth

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience triaging alerts in Microsoft security tools and ticketing systems.
• Core cloud fundamentals: Azure subscriptions/resource groups, RBAC concepts.
• AWS accounts/regions, basic IAM concepts.
• Understanding CNAPP concepts: posture misconfiguration vs workload threat detection.

Responsibilities

• Monitor Defender for Cloud alert queues and posture dashboards for high-severity signals across Azure and AWS-connected environments.
• Perform initial validation (false positive screening), basic enrichment (resource identifiers, subscription/account, region, environment tags), and severity assignment.
• Triage high-impact recommendations and secure-score changes; create remediation tickets mapped to client ownership (platform/IAM/app teams).
• Escalate confirmed incidents to L2 with a complete evidence bundle (alert metadata, impacted resources, timeline, user/service principal context).
• Maintain documentation: ticket updates, SOP/runbook adherence, and shift handover notes.

Skills

Defender for Cloud

Azure

AWS

ServiceNow

Jira

RBAC concepts

CNAPP concepts

Security engineering

Tools

Defender for Cloud

Azure portal

ServiceNow

Jira

Job description

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

CMS- Cloud Security Posture Management Senior

Responsibilities

• Monitor Defender for Cloud alert queues and posture dashboards for high‑severity signals across Azure and AWS‑connected environments.
• Perform initial validation (false positive screening), basic enrichment (resource identifiers, subscription/account, region, environment tags), and severity assignment.
• Triage high‑impact recommendations and secure‑score changes; create remediation tickets mapped to client ownership (platform/IAM/app teams).
• Escalate confirmed incidents to L2 with a complete evidence bundle (alert metadata, impacted resources, timeline, user/service principal context).
• Maintain documentation: ticket updates, SOP/runbook adherence, and shift handover notes.

Required

Hands‑on experience triaging alerts in Microsoft security tools (Defender portal/​Azure portal) and working in ticketing systems (ServiceNow/Jira).

• Core cloud fundamentals: Azure subscriptions/resource groups, RBAC concepts
• AWS accounts/regions, basic IAM concepts
• Understanding of CNAPP concepts: posture misconfiguration vs workload threat detection

Preferred Requirements

• Minimum 3+ years of Cloud technology, specifically in Security engineering, or Security Monitoring roles
• Familiarity with AWS onboarding patterns into Defender for Cloud (high level), including connected environments.
• Basic familiarity with compliance frameworks (CIS/NIST/ISO) and translating findings into actionable tickets.
• Microsoft SC‑200, AZ‑500; AWS Security Specialty (or equivalent fundamentals).

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long‑term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.