Senior Cloud Security Engineer

DIA SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS LLC; Mechanicsville (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

DIA Software Solutions LLC is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to secure our Azure cloud environments and drive security across engineering, DevOps, and operations teams.

You will lead risk-based remediation, design secure architectures, and implement security controls while coordinating with governance, risk, and audit teams to meet regulatory requirements. A strong background in SIEM, CWPP/CNAPP, and Azure security is essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive cloud security experience with hands-on engineering in enterprise environments.
• Deep knowledge of cloud security controls, architecture, and risk remediation.
• Experience with governance, incident response, and security operations.

Responsibilities

• Identify cloud security vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation.
• Lead complex cloud security initiatives and design secure cloud architecture.
• Influence security decisions and enforce secure deployment pipelines.
• Explain security risks to non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop Azure policies and runbooks for incident response.

Skills

Cloud security

Azure security

Incident response

Security architecture

Risk assessment

Vulnerability management

SIEM

Networking

IAM / RBAC / PAM

Compliance (NIST CSF, CIS, Zero Trust)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

Azure Policy

Azure Automation

Nessus/Tenable/Defender

Job description

The Senior Cloud Security Engineer works closely with Cloud Engineering, Network Engineering, Security Operations, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Application Development, DevOps, Risk Management, and IT leadership to ensure cloud environments are secure, resilient, compliant, and aligned with enterprise security standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify cloud security vulnerabilities, assess risk based on business impact, prioritize remediation, track remediation activities, and validate corrective actions
• Lead complex cloud security initiatives and provide technical directions to engineers. Also assist in the design of secure cloud architecture for complex enterprise environments
• Influence architecture and security decisions and prevent insecure configurations from reaching production and implement security gates within deployment pipelines.
• Explain complex security risks to non-technical stakeholders
• Assess cloud security risks and security gaps and recommend appropriate remediations. Create and maintain security documentation and evidence as well as support audits and assessments.
• Review proposed cloud solutions for security risk and define appropriate security and compensation controls.
• Will develop Azure policies to enforce standardization and compliance with enterprise requirements, as well as creating Azure Automation runbooks to support incident response workflows.
• Monitor security events using SIEM technologies and work with VDOT s SOC team to coordinate incident response activities.
• Identifies and diagnoses system problems and threats by using system logs, line monitors, SIEM, diagnostic software, and test equipment.
• Lead investigation and containment of cloud security incidents.
• Review firewall and NSG rule requests and ensure compliance with security standards.
• Must have the ability to provide documentation, architecture topology diagrams, IP schemes and access controls when required.
• Must have the ability to work independently on assigned projects.

SKILLS MATRIX

Skill

Required

Amount of Experience

Experience

Required

8 Years

Enterprise Cloud Security Experience

Required

5 Years

Candidate must be highly experienced as a cloud security professional with strong hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure and cloud engineering

Required

Candidatte must be highly experienced in cybersecurity, networking, identity, security operations, and have a deep cloud engineering competency

Required

Candidate must have in-depth experience moving between strategic architecture and hands-on engineering and identifying security risks

Required

Candidate must have in-depth experience designing practical solutions, implementing controls, and working with infrastructure teams

Required

Candidate musth have in-depth experience working with application teams to continuously improve the organization's cloud security posture

Required

Candidate must have experience setting up Network Security Groups (NSGs), resource manager and management groups, monitor and log analytics,

Required

Candidate must have experience setting up Azure Firewall, Azure WAF, Azure Monitor, Application Gateways, virtual networks and network segmentation.

Required

Candidate must have experiences in: Incident response, Security investigations, Log analysis, Threat intelligence, Security monitoring, IOC analysis

Required

Candidate must have experiences coordinating during cyber incidents

Required

Candidate must have experience in vulnerability management, remediation tracking, vulnerability scanning tools (e.g. Nessus, Tenable, Defender)

Required

Candidate must have experience securing enterprise cloud environments and implementing security controls in production environments

Required

Candidate must have experience with the SIEM products (e.g. Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CNAPP),

Required

Candidate must have experience with log management, security analytics, SOC integration, Threat detection, and Threat hunting

Required

Candidate must also have hands on expertise validating indexer parsers, leveraging Splunk Query Language for monitoring and data analysis.

Required

Candidate must have experience collaborating with the security governance team and application leads to implement enterprise log management standards.

Required

Candidate must have experience with; SEC530, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, Zero Trust principles

Required

Candidate must have experience in cloud vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and risk assessment and prioritization

Required

Candidate must have experience in cloud risk assessment and prioritization, attack surface management, and Cloud Security Posture Management (VSPM)

Required

Candidate must have experience in Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) and Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)

Required

Candidate must have experience developing Azure Policy to enforce standardization and compliance with enterprise requirements

Required

Candidate must have experience creating Azure Automation runbooks to support incident response workflows.

Required

Candidate must have experience with Identity and access management (IAM), Role-based Access control (RBAC), and Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Required

Candidate must have experience with Least-privilege access and multi-factor authentication

Required

Candidate must have experience working in highly regulated environments with large government agencies or similar regulatory environments.

Required

Candidate must have ability to communicate technical issues to technical, non-techical, and executive audiences.

Required

Candidate must have ability mentor junior engineers.

Required

Required: Azure Security Engineer Associate, Security+, Certified Cloud Security Professional certifications

Required