Senior Azure Infra & Security Engineer — Zero Trust Leader

HKA

Phoenix (AZ)

Hybrid

USD 110,000 - 140,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

HKA is seeking a Senior Infrastructure and Security Engineer to strengthen enterprise security and cloud infrastructure from the USA. You will join a global team, reporting to the Infrastructure Services Manager in the UK, and work on Azure-based environments.

You will drive Zero Trust adoption, manage identity controls, and partner with Security Operations to mitigate risk across regions. This role offers visibility, technical depth, and career growth in a multinational setting.

Qualifications

U.S. citizenship required due to access requirements for client systems and Microsoft GCC High environments.
7+ years of infrastructure engineering experience with a strong focus on Microsoft technologies.
5+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience within Microsoft cloud and security environments.
Strong communication with high emotional intelligence, including the ability to understand audience, context, and impact to effectively communicate to a wide variety of audiences.
Strong experience with Azure services, including infrastructure, networking, storage, and identity management.
Experience implementing and supporting Zero Trust security architectures.
Deep understanding of identity and access management, authentication, authorization, and privileged access controls.
Experience managing enterprise cloud security programs and security initiatives.
Knowledge of infrastructure security principles, including endpoint security, encryption, identity protection, and threat mitigation.
Experience with automation and scripting using PowerShell and/or Azure CLI.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and incident response skills.
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Responsibilities

Manage and optimize Azure environments, ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Maintain Azure infrastructure services including virtual machines, networking, storage, and identity management.
Monitor system performance and availability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and related monitoring tools.
Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
Administer and enhance Microsoft security technologies including Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID, Purview, and Intune.
Manage identity and access management controls, including conditional access policies and identity protection.
Implement and support Zero Trust security principles and architectures.
Establish continuous verification, risk-based access controls, least-privilege access models, and just-in-time administration.
Perform security reviews of new technologies, infrastructure changes, and architectural designs.
Collaborate with Security Operations teams to monitor, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity incidents.
Lead technical response activities for security events when required.
Conduct threat modeling, security assessments, and risk evaluations.
Perform regular security posture reviews and develop remediation plans to reduce organizational risk.
Track and support risk reduction initiatives across the enterprise.