Azure Cloud Security Engineer II — Defender for Cloud

Insight Global; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Security Engineer II to strengthen cloud-native security across Azure and Microsoft 365. The role blends security operations, vulnerability management, monitoring, auditing, firewall/EDR/SIEM support, and compliance reporting with future‑state tasks for Azure Policy and Defender for Cloud.

Hybrid, onsite 3 days per week in Richmond, VA. Starting annual base salary range is $125K–$150K, depending on experience.

Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security operations, cloud security, or hybrid infrastructure security.
• Experience with Azure security services, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Sentinel or SIEM tools, identity, RBAC, and access control concepts.
• Understanding of vulnerability management, logging, alerting, incident response, and compliance evidence expectations.

Responsibilities

• Implementing and maintaining Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, security baselines, and cloud posture improvements.
• Configuring RBAC, Conditional Access, privileged access, and identity governance for Azure and Microsoft 365.
• Maintaining centralized logging, alerting, and monitoring pipelines for cloud workloads and security investigations.
• Supporting security gates in deployment workflows, including policy validation and access review.
• Providing security input during architecture reviews and go-live readiness.
• Translating policies into Azure Policy, RBAC standards, and governance controls.

Skills

Azure Cloud Security

Security Operations

Vulnerability Management

RBAC & Access Control

Incident Response

Threat Hunting

Security Monitoring

Cloud Governance

Education

Azure Security Engineer Associate

CISSP

Tools

Defender for Cloud

SIEM

EDR

IDS/IPS

Azure Policy

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Security Engineer II to strengthen cloud-native security across Azure and Microsoft 365. The role blends security operations, vulnerability management, monitoring, auditing, firewall/EDR/SIEM support, and compliance reporting with future‑state tasks for Azure Policy and Defender for Cloud.

Hybrid, onsite 3 days per week in Richmond, VA. Starting annual base salary range is $125K–$150K, depending on experience.