Remote Senior Cloud Security & Detection Engineer (Azure)

Fortellar; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortellar is seeking a Sr. Security Engineer - Cloud Security & Detection to design, deploy, and operate cloud security posture, data protection, and detection for Fortellar's clients, with primary assignment to large-scale, multi-workstream security remediation engagements.

The role is typically responsible for closing the largest single pool of open findings in the client estate, and for transitioning detection and data security capability off incumbent external vendors and onto the Microsoft

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security or a related field
• Preferred certifications: AZ-500, SC-200, SC-100, CCSP or CISSP
• 8+ years in infrastructure or security engineering, including 5+ years securing Azure environments
• 4+ years building and tuning Microsoft Sentinel detections (KQL), including Defender XDR and Defender for Cloud
• Hands-on incident response experience, including leading response to critical incidents
• Experience with policy-as-code (Azure Policy, Terraform or Bicep), Microsoft Purview and security automation (Logic Apps or Sentinel playbooks)
• 3+ years in a client-facing consulting role, presenting to technical and executive stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Build and tune Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules, watchlists, and workbooks
• Design and deploy automated and agentic response playbooks for the highest-volume alert types
• Direct efforts to reduce alert volume and mean time to resolution through tuning, automation, and suppression of validated false positives
• Evaluate emerging tooling and AI-driven detection and response capability for applicability to client and internal operations
• Triage and close the standing backlog of high-severity security incidents, establishing disposition and evidence for each
• Enforce remediation tracking so that every finding carries an owner and a disposition

Skills

Azure security

Incident response

Microsoft Sentinel

Security engineering

Client-facing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Security

Tools

Azure

Terraform

Bicep

Microsoft Purview

Logic Apps

Sentinel

Job description

Fortellar is seeking a Sr. Security Engineer - Cloud Security & Detection to design, deploy, and operate cloud security posture, data protection, and detection for Fortellar's clients, with primary assignment to large-scale, multi-workstream security remediation engagements.

The role is typically responsible for closing the largest single pool of open findings in the client estate, and for transitioning detection and data security capability off incumbent external vendors and onto the Microsoft