Cloud Security Engineer & Incident Response Lead

Kuvare; Baton Rouge (LA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Kuvare is seeking a Security Administrator to join the Information Security team. This hands-on role focuses on engineering, hardening, and operating security controls across a hybrid environment spanning Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, 365, and on‑prem infrastructure.

Ideal candidates will have deep technical expertise, DevSecOps mindset, and strong experience in incident response, identity/hardening, and vulnerability remediation within a regulated financial services setting.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Information Technology experience, with at least 3 years focused on Cybersecurity.
• Minimum of 4 years on Microsoft technologies in hands‑on administration, engineering or operations capacity.
• Advanced cybersecurity certifications in good standing (e.g., CEH, OSCP, AZ-500, SC-300, SC-200, SC-100).
• Deep, hands‑on knowledge of Microsoft services such as Defender (Cloud/Endpoint/XDR), Intune, Sentinel, and Entra ID.
• Extensive experience operating hybrid cloud security architecture and controls.
• Strong background in security tooling administration, configuration, and tuning.

Responsibilities

• Operate, tune, and build detections in Microsoft Defender XDR to detect, investigate, and respond to threats.
• Design and automate response with SOAR playbooks to reduce mean time to respond.
• Lead and coordinate hands‑on incident response for events such as data breaches, malware outbreaks, and identity compromises.
• Partner with Security and Risk leadership to translate policies into enforceable, technically implemented controls.
• Develop, test, and validate disaster recovery and resilience strategies from a security perspective.
• Engineer and administer Microsoft Entra ID: Conditional Access, PIM, Privileged Access Groups, authentication methods, identity protection, and hybrid identity.

Skills

IT experience

Cybersecurity

Security monitoring

Incident response

Security engineering

Education

Advanced cybersecurity certifications

Tools

Defender (Cloud/Endpoint/XDR)

Intune

Sentinel

Entra ID

Job description

Kuvare is seeking a Security Administrator to join the Information Security team. This hands-on role focuses on engineering, hardening, and operating security controls across a hybrid environment spanning Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, 365, and on‑prem infrastructure.

Ideal candidates will have deep technical expertise, DevSecOps mindset, and strong experience in incident response, identity/hardening, and vulnerability remediation within a regulated financial services setting.