Azure Cloud Security Engineer - Threat Detection & IAM

Frost & Sullivan; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work policy

Medical and Accident insurance

Global team collaboration

Open door policy

Career growth opportunities

Continuous learning and coaching

Job summary

Frost & Sullivan is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer in Malaysia with at least 2 years of hands-on experience to design, implement and monitor security controls across cloud platforms, primarily Azure. You will work with infrastructure and DevOps teams to integrate security into deployments and improve threat detection, logging and compliance.

The role requires strong analytical and communication skills, familiarity with security frameworks, and experience with tools like SIEM, Defender,

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years in cloud security or related technical security role.
• Solid understanding of IAM, network security, data protection, logging & monitoring.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform, preferably Azure.
• Familiarity with security tooling like SIEM, vulnerability management, endpoint protection.
• Knowledge of secure configurations for VMs, storage, networking, containers, and cloud services.
• Experience supporting incident response and operational troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of ISO 27001, NIST or similar frameworks.
• Knowledge of Sentinel or similar tools is advantageous.
• Familiarity with Intune, Defender and Purview is advantageous.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement security controls across cloud platforms, mainly Azure.
• Monitor cloud environments for security events and misconfigurations.
• Assist incident investigation and response.
• Review configurations and perform risk analysis for cloud-hosted systems.
• Manage identity and access controls with least privilege and RBAC.
• Collaborate with infra, DevOps and apps teams to secure deployments.
• Maintain cloud security tooling: logging, alerting, posture management.
• Contribute to security documentation and runbooks.
• Support compliance and audit activities by gathering evidence.
• Stay current with cloud threats and best practices.

Skills

Cloud security

Azure

IAM

SIEM

Incident response

Threat detection

Compliance

Analytical thinking

Communication

DevSecOps

AWS

Intune

Purview

Sentinel

Tools

Azure security tooling

SIEM platforms

Cloud-native security

Endpoint protection

IaC security

Job description

Frost & Sullivan is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer in Malaysia with at least 2 years of hands-on experience to design, implement and monitor security controls across cloud platforms, primarily Azure. You will work with infrastructure and DevOps teams to integrate security into deployments and improve threat detection, logging and compliance.

The role requires strong analytical and communication skills, familiarity with security frameworks, and experience with tools like SIEM, Defender,