Azure Platform & Security Engineer — SOC 2 & HIPAA Ready

Highlight Health; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Highlight Health is seeking a Senior Platform and Security Engineer to own the Azure infrastructure, IT operations, and security controls that underpin our PHI-handling Claims Intelligence Platform. This hands‑on role collaborates with engineering and leadership on SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA audit readiness.

You will manage Azure resources, DevOps pipelines, and security tooling across development, UAT, and production, driving reliability and compliance for a fast‑growing, mission‑driven company.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in cloud platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure security.
• Hands‑on Azure production experience across the full service lifecycle.
• Practical experience implementing technical controls for HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 2.
• Fluent in Entra ID: conditional access, MFA, role assignments, and identity governance.
• Applies appropriate safeguards for PHI, including PHI‑safe logging and least‑privilege access controls.
• Comfortable owning IT operations end‑to‑end: M365, SaaS administration, and employee access management.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure for all Azure resources across development, UAT, and production environments.
• Manage and evolve Azure DevOps pipelines for build, test, and deployment.
• Operate Azure Container Apps, App Service, Service Bus, PostgreSQL Flexible Server, Blob Storage, and supporting services.
• Maintain Azure Key Vault including secrets rotation and least‑privilege access.
• Configure and tune Application Insights and Log Analytics with PHI‑safe logging pipelines.
• Administer Microsoft Fabric, including governance, capacity management, access controls, and data integration oversight.
• Implement and maintain technical controls in support of SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA.
• Administer Entra ID including conditional access policies, MFA enforcement, and identity governance.
• Audit preparation, evidence collection, and control documentation with leadership.
• Incident response readiness, tabletop exercises and runbooks.
• Manage logging and alerting with Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Sentinel.
• Maintain security posture through vulnerability management and access reviews.
• Own Office 365 administration, SharePoint, and SaaS tool management.
• Serve as internal technical authority on endpoint security and device management.
• Evaluate and onboard new tooling with a bias toward security and simplicity.

Skills

Azure

DevOps

Security engineering

PHI data handling

Entra ID

Tools

Azure DevOps

Azure Container Apps

App Service

Service Bus

PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Key Vault

Application Insights

Log Analytics

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Sentinel

Purview

M365

Job description

Highlight Health is seeking a Senior Platform and Security Engineer to own the Azure infrastructure, IT operations, and security controls that underpin our PHI-handling Claims Intelligence Platform. This hands‑on role collaborates with engineering and leadership on SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA audit readiness.

You will manage Azure resources, DevOps pipelines, and security tooling across development, UAT, and production, driving reliability and compliance for a fast‑growing, mission‑driven company.