Azure Cloud Security & Governance Consultant

Apex Systems; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking a Cloud Security & Governance consultant to help strengthen Azure security, governance, and compliance readiness as migrations continue. This six‑month contract‑to‑hire role focuses on secure configurations, policy design, logging, and audit readiness across Azure environments.

The ideal candidate has hands-on Azure security and governance experience, Defender for Cloud expertise, and a proven ability to provide remediation guidance and documentation.

Qualifications

• Azure security and governance experience.
• Defender for Cloud experience.
• Azure Policy experience.
• Entra ID security and access governance experience.
• Cloud logging, monitoring, and security baseline experience.
• Experience with secure configuration reviews.
• Experience supporting compliance or audit readiness.
• Ability to provide clear remediation recommendations and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Assist with Azure Policy design, review, and implementation.
• Support Defender for Cloud rollout and recommendation review.
• Review Entra access, privileged roles, and identity governance controls.
• Support secure configuration review across Azure subscriptions.
• Assist with logging, monitoring, and security visibility standards.
• Support compliance evidence gathering and audit readiness.
• Help establish post‑migration security validation process.
• Identify security gaps and prioritize remediation recommendations.
• Support governance model for subscriptions, tagging, access, and policy enforcement.
• Provide recommendations for scalable cloud security operations.

Skills

Azure security

Defender for Cloud

Azure Policy

Entra ID security

Cloud logging & monitoring

Secure configuration reviews

Compliance/audit readiness

Remediation documentation

Job description

Everforth Apex is seeking a Cloud Security & Governance consultant to help strengthen Azure security, governance, and compliance readiness as migrations continue. This six‑month contract‑to‑hire role focuses on secure configurations, policy design, logging, and audit readiness across Azure environments.

The ideal candidate has hands-on Azure security and governance experience, Defender for Cloud expertise, and a proven ability to provide remediation guidance and documentation.