Remote Part-Time Senior Azure Security Architect

Near Shore Cyber; United States; Remote; USD 131,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

Nearshore Cyber is seeking a senior security architect for a part-time, hourly engagement to design and secure a Microsoft Azure environment for a healthcare-focused MSP. You will own identity, infrastructure, networking, governance, logging, and monitoring across hybrid Azure/VMware environments.

The role emphasizes ransomware resilience, immutable backups, and alignment with HIPAA BAAs. Remote, US-based candidates with strong Azure expertise are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• Seven+ years in information security, with 3+ years designing and hardening production Azure environments.
• Azure network security design including hub-and-spoke, NSGs, private endpoints, ExpressRoute.
• Experience with Azure governance: management groups, subscriptions, RBAC, Azure Policy, landing zone baselines.
• Familiarity with Defender for Cloud, Sentinel or SIEM platforms and Azure Policy.
• Backup, recovery, and DR design for ransomware, including immutability and isolated recovery.
• Healthcare regulatory exposure (HIPAA) and BAAs; strong English for live discussions.
• Availability for 1–2 hours overlap with US Pacific time.

Responsibilities

• Produce and own the security design for the Azure environment across identity, infrastructure, networking, governance, policies, access control, logging, and monitoring.
• Design Microsoft Entra ID, CA, PIM, and RBAC for least-privilege access.
• Harden AVS, Azure VMs, and supporting services to baseline security.
• Define segmentation and traffic controls across ExpressRoute, firewalls, and clinic connectivity.
• Shape management group/subscription structure, security baselines, and policy assignments.
• Define logging sources, retention, and detection coverage in Defender for Cloud and Sentinel or MSSP platform.
• Advise on ransomware resilience with Azure as primary and hosted site as secondary; outline RPO/RTO and recovery testing.
• Mentor delivery engineers to embed security into the build process.

Skills

Information security

Azure security design

English fluency

HIPAA/compliance

Time overlap with US Pacific

Education

Microsoft AZ-500

CISSP

CCSP

HCISPP

Tools

Azure Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Sentinel

Palo Alto VM-Series

VMware NSX

Azure ExpressRoute

Job description

Nearshore Cyber is seeking a senior security architect for a part-time, hourly engagement to design and secure a Microsoft Azure environment for a healthcare-focused MSP. You will own identity, infrastructure, networking, governance, logging, and monitoring across hybrid Azure/VMware environments.

The role emphasizes ransomware resilience, immutable backups, and alignment with HIPAA BAAs. Remote, US-based candidates with strong Azure expertise are encouraged to apply.