Security Engineer

Doghouse Recruitment; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 72,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lease car

Certification budget

Conferences budget

Job summary

Doghouse Recruitment is seeking an Azure Security Engineer to own security on a live Azure platform, with deep Entra ID and Defender for Cloud expertise. You’ll work across Terraform, Azure DevOps, Ansible, and PowerShell, ensuring secure identity and infrastructure as code.

The role balances design, deployment, and DR testing in a regulated, client-facing environment. You will join a multi-tenant platform team in Amsterdam, three days in the office and the rest remote, with a strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Azure infrastructure or cloud engineering with security focus
• Entra ID in depth: RBAC, CA, PIM, identity governance
• Microsoft Sentinel and Defender for Cloud, including writing your own KQL
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform, plus Azure DevOps pipelines and PowerShell
• Azure networking: segmentation, private endpoints, and private resources
• Software supply chain and vulnerability management or appetite to own it
• Fluent English, Dutch is a plus

Responsibilities

• Own the security side of a live Azure platform and build it yourself
• Lead Entra ID security controls: RBAC, CA, PIM, governance
• Use Defender for Cloud and Sentinel; write custom KQL
• Work with Terraform, Azure DevOps, Ansible, and PowerShell
• Handle networking, private endpoints, and monitoring with Datadog/Azure Monitor
• Contribute to secure software supply chain and vulnerability management
• Participate in design sessions, deployments and DR tests; heavy implementation first

Skills

Azure security

Entra ID

Microsoft Sentinel

Defender for Cloud

Terraform

Azure DevOps

PowerShell

KQL

Identity governance

Private endpoints

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Datadog

Azure Monitor

Job description

Azure Security Engineer – Entra ID, Sentinel, Defender | Amsterdam [€120K + car]

[Business Critical IT / Managed Services]

One team is building a multi tenant Azure platform from scratch under heavy regulation. The other is merging two Entra ID tenants and putting a data and AI platform on Azure. Both need an engineer who owns security rather than one who reviews it.

My client runs business critical infrastructure for large organisations, a good part of it in regulated sectors. Every client environment belongs to one dedicated team that designs it, builds it and then runs it for years, and the technical mandate sits inside that team. A team is a group of senior engineers, one of whom carries the tech lead role, and there is no management layer above you deciding how the platform should work.

What you’ll do

You own the security side of a live Azure platform, and you build it yourself instead of writing recommendations for someone else. Identity is the biggest piece, so Entra ID in depth: role based access control, Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management, and identity governance with access packages. Defender for Cloud gives you the posture picture, Microsoft Sentinel gives you detection and you write your own KQL rather than living off the defaults. Around that sits the platform itself: Terraform, Azure DevOps pipelines, Ansible for configuration management, PowerShell where you need it, network segmentation with private endpoints, and monitoring on Datadog and Azure Monitor. Software supply chain and vulnerability management are wide open, and so is the question of how you keep things safe while the teams build with AI agents. You will be in the design sessions, the deployments and the disaster recovery tests, because security touches all of it. The first months are heavy on implementation, after that it moves with whatever the platform needs.

Your profile

• 6+ years in Azure infrastructure or cloud engineering, with security as your main focus in recent years
• Entra ID in depth: role based access control, Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management, identity governance
• Microsoft Sentinel and Defender for Cloud, including writing your own KQL
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform, plus Azure DevOps pipelines and PowerShell
• Azure networking: segmentation, private endpoints, and what actually makes a resource private
• Software supply chain and vulnerability management, or the appetite to own it here
• Fluent English, Dutch is a plus

What’s in it for you

Up to €120K gross per year, a lease car, and a strong package on top of that. A permanent contract from day one. Three days a week in the Amsterdam office, the rest from wherever you work best. Budget for certification, training and conferences, and the room to actually use it.