Remote Azure Cloud Security Engineer: Defender, Zero Trust

EdgeByte Solutions; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

EdgeByte Solutions is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer – Cybersecurity to design, implement, secure, and support Microsoft Azure and hybrid-cloud environments for diverse clients.

You will work on cloud security architecture, threat protection, vulnerability management, security monitoring, and Zero Trust, collaborating with cross‑functional teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• CompTIA Security+ and AZ-500 certification are required.
• 8+ years in enterprise IT, cloud, or cybersecurity with Azure security focus.
• Experience with Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Policy and Key Vault.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure Microsoft Azure and hybrid-cloud architectures.
• Configure and manage Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Azure Policy, Key Vault and native controls.
• Implement cloud security posture management, workload protection, vulnerability management, and compliance.
• Secure Azure compute, storage, networking, databases, applications, and cloud-native workloads.
• Develop and maintain SIEM/SOAR monitoring, threat detection, alerting, and incident response.
• Implement Zero Trust, least privilege, segmentation, encryption, and defense-in-depth controls.
• Identify and remediate vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and cloud risks.
• Support security hardening, incident investigation, continuous monitoring, and remediation.
• Develop KQL queries, analytics rules, detections, dashboards, and security automation where required.
• Automate security controls using Terraform, PowerShell, Azure CLI, APIs, or similar tech.
• Create security architecture diagrams, implementation plans, standards, runbooks, and docs.
• Collaborate with cloud, networking, ICAM, DevOps, app, infra, and cybersecurity teams.
• Support customer security, regulatory, and compliance requirements.

Skills

Security architecture

Zero Trust

RBAC & IAM

Cloud security

Threat detection

Education

CompTIA Security+

AZ-500 (Azure Security Engineer)

Tools

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Sentinel

Azure Policy

Key Vault

Terraform

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Job description

EdgeByte Solutions is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer – Cybersecurity to design, implement, secure, and support Microsoft Azure and hybrid-cloud environments for diverse clients.

You will work on cloud security architecture, threat protection, vulnerability management, security monitoring, and Zero Trust, collaborating with cross‑functional teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.