Azure Cloud Security Engineer (Hybrid)

ECS Corporate Services; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in Fairfax, VA

U.S. Citizenship

Active DoD Secret clearance

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Fairfax, VA is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to design, implement, configure, and maintain cybersecurity technologies and secure Azure-based infrastructure across enterprise systems and cloud environments.

You will collaborate with SOC analysts, system administrators, network engineers, and stakeholders to ensure systems are protected, monitored, and hardened according to security requirements, standards, and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a security-related field with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on Azure security implementation and operations.
• Experience with security tools and collaborating with SOC and admins.
• U.S. Citizen and active DoD Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Implement, configure, maintain, and support cybersecurity technologies, tools, platforms, and technical security controls.
• Assist with engineering secure solutions for enterprise systems, networks, endpoints, cloud environments, applications, and operational support platforms.
• Support security architecture decisions by providing implementation input, technical feasibility analysis, and operational considerations.
• Apply security engineering practices across the system lifecycle, including planning, deployment, configuration, testing, operations, and sustainment.
• Review system configurations, permissions, authentication settings, logging settings, encryption settings, and access controls for alignment with security requirements.
• Support implementation of vulnerability remediation, configuration changes, patching activities, and risk reduction measures in coordination with system owners.
• Validate that security controls are operating as intended and support remediation when control gaps or technical weaknesses are identified.
• Security Tool Support & Integration: Support deployment, tuning, and sustainment of tools such as SIEM, EDR, vulnerability scanners, firewalls, IDS/IPS, email security, identity security, logging, and monitoring platforms.
• Integrate security tools with enterprise systems, data sources, ticketing systems, dashboards, identity platforms, and incident response workflows.
• Troubleshoot tool performance, connectivity, data collection, alerting, agent health, policy enforcement, and integration issues.
• Coordinate with SOC analysts, engineers, threat hunters, and system administrators to ensure security tooling supports monitoring, investigation, and response requirements.
• Vulnerability, Risk & Remediation Support: Analyze vulnerability scan results, configuration findings, security alerts, and control weaknesses to support prioritization and remediation planning.
• Work with technical teams to identify root causes, validate remediation options, and confirm closure of vulnerabilities or security findings.
• Support risk treatment activities by documenting technical constraints, compensating controls, residual risk, and remediation status.
• Assist control assessors and assessment leads by providing technical evidence, configuration details, screenshots, logs, and implementation explanations.
• Incident Response & Operational Support: Provide technical engineering support during security incidents, investigations, containment activities, eradication efforts, and recovery actions.
• Assist with log collection, tool validation, endpoint or network containment actions, access changes, system isolation, and forensic preservation activities as directed.
• Develop and maintain scripts, queries, automation, and repeatable procedures to improve security operations and engineering response efficiency.
• Participate in after‑action reviews and support implementation of technical improvements based on incident lessons learned.
• Documentation, Standards & Continuous Improvement: Develop and maintain technical documentation, configuration standards, diagrams, implementation guides, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Support change management, configuration management, asset documentation, and security engineering governance processes.
• Recommend improvements to security tools, engineering processes, baselines, automation, monitoring coverage, and technical control implementation.
• Stay current with emerging threats, security technologies, hardening guidance, and engineering best practices relevant to enterprise security environments.

Skills

Security engineering

Azure

Threat analysis

SOC collaboration

Incident response

Automation scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Vulnerability scanners

Firewalls

IDS/IPS

Identity security

Logging & monitoring

Job description

Everforth ECS in Fairfax, VA is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to design, implement, configure, and maintain cybersecurity technologies and secure Azure-based infrastructure across enterprise systems and cloud environments.

You will collaborate with SOC analysts, system administrators, network engineers, and stakeholders to ensure systems are protected, monitored, and hardened according to security requirements, standards, and best practices.