Cloud Engineer

Arkhya Tech Inc.; New Jersey; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Arkhya Tech Inc. is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Security Engineer to own remediation and hardening across our cloud environment. This hands-on role turns security findings into durable fixes rather than advisory notes.

You will work with a security team that identifies risks and ensures findings do not recur, focusing on automated guardrails, policy-as-code, and secure baseline configurations. The goal is a secure, design-enforced environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Cloud Security or Security engineering, with hands-on Azure experience.
• Deep Entra ID and Conditional Access expertise.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and policy-as-code.
• Experience with Defender for Cloud and cloud security posture management.
• Strong remediation of security findings; not just patches.
• Familiarity with AI security considerations.

Responsibilities

• Remediation & recurrence prevention: own the full lifecycle of security findings and recommendations, through triage, remediation, verification, and closure.
• Identity & authentication: secure and govern modern authentication flows; manage Entra ID app registrations, permissions, and CA policies.
• Cloud security engineering & governance: build guardrails with Azure Policy and Terraform; enforce secure baselines and drift detection.
• Admin portal & privileged access: secure admin consoles; enforce MFA, PIM, least-privilege, and break-glass procedures.
• AI security: apply controls to AI workloads, agents, and data exposure risks.

Skills

Azure Cloud Security

Microsoft Entra ID

Defender for Cloud

Terraform

Scripting (Python/PowerShell)

Job description

Role: Senior Azure Cloud Security Engineer

Skills Required: Azure Cloud, Entra ID, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Terraform, Scripting (Python/PowerShell)

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior Azure Cloud Security Engineer to serve as the dedicated owner of cloud security remediation and hardening across our environment.

Our organization already has an established security team that identifies risks and issues recommendations. This role does not sit on that team. Instead, you are the engineer who turns those recommendations into durable, well-architected fixes and, just as importantly, makes sure the same findings don't come back.

This is a hands‑on engineering role, not an advisory one. Success means a measurably more secure environment, a shrinking backlog of recurring findings, and security controls that are enforced by design rather than by manual effort or one‑off patches.

What You'll Do

Remediation & Recurrence Prevention (the core of this role)

• Own the full lifecycle of security findings and recommendations, whether they come from the security team, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, or other tooling, through triage, remediation, verification, and closure.
• Root-cause recurring issues and implement systemic fixes (policy-as-code, automated guardrails, secure baselines) so the same findings don't reappear quarter after quarter.
• Track remediation SLAs and report on risk reduction and posture trends over time.

Identity & Authentication

• Secure and govern modern authentication flows across the estate: OIDC, OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, JWT validation and handling, and mTLS.
• Administer and harden Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Entra): app registrations and Enterprise Application permissions, consent governance, service principals and managed identities, credential and secret hygiene, and least-privilege scoping.
• Design, implement, and continuously tune Conditional Access policies.

Cloud Security Engineering & Governance

• Build and enforce guardrails using Azure Policy and Terraform; maintain secure‑by‑default infrastructure‑as‑code baselines and detect/remediate configuration drift.
• Operate Microsoft Defender for Cloud, drive secure-score improvement, remediate recommendations, and manage cloud security posture (CSPM).
• Contribute to security governance: standards, control definitions, exception handling, and audit evidence.

Admin Portal & Privileged Access Security

• Secure all cloud and SaaS administrative portals, including Azure and other admin consoles (e.g., Microsoft 365 admin, identity providers, and any additional cloud platforms in use).
• Strengthen privileged access through MFA enforcement, Privileged Identity Management (PIM) / just-in-time elevation, role minimization, and break‑glass procedures.

AI Security

• Apply security controls to AI workloads, services, and AI agents, including agent and workload identities, tool and permission scoping, data‑exposure and prompt‑injection risk, and emerging AI security best practices.

What You Bring (Required)

• 7+ years in Cloud Security or Security engineering, with deep, hands‑on Azure experience.
• Strong, hands‑on Microsoft Entra ID expertise: app registrations, Enterprise Apps, permissions and consent, and Conditional Access.
• Solid working knowledge of modern authentication: OIDC, OAuth 2.0 / PKCE, JWT, and mTLS.
• Proficiency with Terraform and Azure Policy for policy-as-code and automated guardrails.
• Experience with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and cloud security posture management.
• A demonstrable track record of root-causing and permanently closing security findings, not just patching them.
• Working understanding of AI, AI agents, and AI security considerations.

Nice to Have

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline security, secrets management, and SIEM/SOAR.
• Hands‑on experience securing LLM-based or agentic systems in production.