Senior Cloud Security Engineer - Hybrid (Azure/AWS)

DANASTAR Professional Services, LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Three weeks of paid time off (PTO)

Paid Federal holidays

401(k) retirement plan with employer"

Job summary

EastBay Systems is a cybersecurity and IT consulting firm seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to join an established team supporting a complex Federal hybrid-cloud environment.

The role is hands-on across cloud security, networking, logging, security tools, and automation; supporting Azure, AWS, on-premises, and hybrid environments with ongoing architecture reviews and security assessments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of cybersecurity, cloud security, network security, or security engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on Azure and/or AWS security experience.
• Strong Azure networking knowledge, including VNets, subnets, route tables, NSGs, firewalls, and hybrid connectivity.
• Strong understanding of routing, DNS, TCP/IP, segmentation, traffic flows, and firewall technologies.
• Hands-on Microsoft Sentinel experience, including connectors, analytics rules, detections, automation, and log ingestion.
• Experience with Linux/RHEL Syslog or rsyslog.
• Experience with Azure Logic Apps, PowerShell, REST APIs, JSON, and scripting.
• Experience with Microsoft Defender XDR, CrowdStrike, ExtraHop or comparable technologies, and Cisco WSA or similar web security platforms.
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, PIM, IAM, and RBAC.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Experience supporting Federal cybersecurity requirements such as FISMA, RMF, NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, or ISCM.
• Ability and willingness to work onsite 2 days per week and transition to 5 days onsite if required by the client.

Responsibilities

• Support Azure, AWS, on-premises, and hybrid security environments.
• Configure and troubleshoot Azure VNets, subnets, route tables, NSGs, Azure Firewall, load balancers, Application Gateway, VPNs, and related services.
• Apply strong knowledge of routing, DNS, TCP/IP, segmentation, traffic flows, and firewall controls.
• Support firewall rule reviews, access-control changes, network hardening, and secure cloud configurations.
• Participate in cloud and network security architecture reviews and recommend practical improvements.

Skills

Azure

AWS

Azure Networking

Microsoft Sentinel

Linux Syslog

PowerShell

REST APIs

JSON

Defender XDR

CrowdStrike

ExtraHop

Cisco WSA

Entra ID

Conditional Access

PIM

RBAC

IAM

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT, Cybersecurity, or related field

Tools

Azure Logic Apps

Job description

EastBay Systems is a cybersecurity and IT consulting firm seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to join an established team supporting a complex Federal hybrid-cloud environment.

The role is hands-on across cloud security, networking, logging, security tools, and automation; supporting Azure, AWS, on-premises, and hybrid environments with ongoing architecture reviews and security assessments.