Azure Security Consultant

TechDigital Group; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a seasoned cloud security expert to design and implement comprehensive security solutions across Azure environments. This role involves defining security controls, conducting maturity assessments, and ensuring compliance with regulations. The ideal candidate will possess in-depth knowledge of Azure security technologies and hands-on experience with security deployments. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and security excellence, and make a significant impact on cloud security practices while collaborating with a dynamic team. If you are passionate about cloud security and eager to drive transformative initiatives, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of Azure security technologies and services.
• Experience in designing and implementing security controls for cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud security for Azure environments.
• Conduct maturity assessments and define transformation roadmaps.
• Lead compliance processes and security enhancements.

Skills

Cloud Security

Microsoft Azure

Security Design

Incident Management

Threat Intelligence

Compliance and Regulations

RBAC Implementation

Vulnerability Management

Agile Methodologies

DevOps Principles

Tools

Azure Security Center

Azure AD

SIEM Tools

Firewalls

Endpoint Security

Job description

Seasoned cloud security expert with in-depth knowledge on comprehensive security design, implementation and management across all Azure security technologies and services.

Key Responsibilities -

Design and implement extensive Microsoft Security related activities that include, but not limited to:

1. End to End cloud security design and implementation for a 100% cloud (Azure) environment
2. Defining maturity model and conducting maturity assessments
3. Defining transformation roadmap
4. Architecture and design of security controls, product best fit analysis to ensure end to end security covering different approaches for layered security, zoning, Integration aspects, API, Endpoint security, Data security, Compliance and regulations, Threat intelligence, Threat exposure & Incident management aspects for the cloud deployments
5. In-depth experience on Infrastructure Security design and deployments using combination of 3rd-party and/or cloud native security services (Azure AD, Azure Security Center, Azure VNets, VNet-peering, NSG, Azure DDoS, Load Balancers, WAF, Storage security, Azure API management) is a must.
6. Hands-on experience in the technical deployment, configuration, integration, support, and administration of security technologies (e.g. Firewalls, IPS, DDoS, WAF, Endpoint etc.) for Azure cloud environment.
7. Designing and implementing RBAC for Azure resources
8. Experience around creating and audit of security best practices and implementation of security principles across the organization, to meet business goals along with customer and regulatory requirements
9. Define and enforce policies and guardrails for extensive security controls across environments, educating broad user base for effective distributed security responsibilities and best practices.
10. Well-versed with agile and Azure DevOps principles, embedding security throughout CI/CD process
11. Threat and Vulnerability management for the Azure workloads
12. Azure security monitoring policies setup
13. Configure rules for real-time alerting in SIEM tool for events
14. Lead continuous compliance process and other obligatory security requirements and reporting
15. Perform ongoing security enhancements, testing and validation to ensure robust and functional security across all environments.