SOC Engineer II: Azure & M365 Security Ops (Swing Shift)

Applied Information Sciences, Inc.; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions provider is seeking a SOC Engineer Tier 2 to ensure secure operations in Azure and M365 environments. The role includes responsibilities like building security alerts, participating in audits, and providing technical guidance. Candidates must have at least 6 years of security engineering experience with required certifications. Competitive compensation and dynamic work environment offered.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in security engineering to operate M365 and Azure platforms.
• Must have a Security + certification.
• Good experience in a variety of SOC engineering/administration tools.
• Handles daily alerts, incidents; monitors, tracks, analyzes and records.
• Knowledge of current malware and phishing threats is essential.

Responsibilities

• Review environment information to understand the organization's operations.
• Implement security roadmap and educate SOC staff.
• Participate in audits and address coverage gaps.
• Build security architecture and work on operational issues.
• Document requirements, procedures, and protocols for users.

Skills

Experience in security engineering

Security + certification

Experience in Azure and M365 environments

Knowledge of SOC engineering tools

Incident handling

Vendor and third-party monitoring

Strong engineering analysis ability

CySA+ certification within 6 months

Tools

SIEM tools

Azure Monitor

Azure Sentinel

Azure Automation

Azure Security Center

Job description

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you're joining a mission-driven team that's passionate about making a difference. You'll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company's success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone's voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

Working@AISAt AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Security Architect.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Develops enterprise security architectures, frameworks, and standards; utilizes advanced forensics and integrates solutions with IT systems.

• Work & Complexity: Designs secure architectures, manages integration projects, leads strategic initiatives, and enforces policies and standards.

• Quality & Independence: Ensures integrity and scalability, develops comprehensive strategies, and optimizes solutions for performance and efficiency.

• Teamwork & Communication: Leads architectural teams, builds partnerships, manages knowledge, and communicates strategies and executive reports.

• Consulting & Engagement: Provides architectural consulting, leads innovation initiatives, evaluates enterprise technologies, and builds strategic partnerships.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a SOC Engineer Tier 2.

Introduction:

As a SOC Engineer Tier 2 you will use cutting-edge cloudtechnologies to ensure secure operations for our clients. Ensure that large-scale Azure and M365 environments are secure and that security events are quickly identified and resolved. Build comprehensive security alerts and monitoring tools and dashboards to gauge the operational security of system components. Implement innovation to improve efficiency of Azure security related activities. Serve as point of escalation for challenging and complex security issue resolution. Join our team of security operations cloud professionals and accomplish what others only dream of.
This is a weekend/holiday shift position, but you must be willing to fill in for other shifts as needed. Saturday & Sunday 8:00PM-8:00AM + some weekday shifts and holidays.

What You'll Be Doing

• Review the environment scoping information and inventory to ensure a deep understanding of the organization's business, its applications, and technical solutions.

• Be well versed in the areas of focus on the security roadmap and have an understanding of how they will be implemented and impact the work that the Security Operations Center staff will have to take up.

• Provide the SOC with an understanding as to the mapping between IT & organization security and how it relates to the responsibilities and tasking that the SOC has.

• Ensure that the SOC team is focusing on education based on preventative maintenance and roadmap capabilities.

• Participate in audit reviews to ensure that gaps in coverage are being addressed by the SOC team.

• Support the creation of reporting templates, explain how they are used and generated and the expectation regarding their cadence. Create a process where the reports are reviewed and feedback loops provide the ability to improve them.

• Specialize in SIEM configuration and maintenance.

• Responsible for building the security architecture and systems

• Work with development operations teams to ensure that systems are up to date.

• Document requirements, procedures, and protocols to ensure that other users have the right resources

• Work with customers on complex operational issues

Location and Travel Details

Springfield, VA

Security Clearance and Citizenship Requirements

TS/SCI with CI Polygraph is required

Skills required for this opportunity

• 6 + years of experience in security engineering to operate M365 and Azure platforms

• Security + certification

• Experience in Azure and M365 environments

• Good experience in a variety of SOC engineering/ administration tools

• Handles daily alerts, incidents; monitors, tracks, analyzes and records.

• Work with other IT professionals to resolve fast moving vulnerabilities such as spam, virus, spyware and malware.

• Monitor security vulnerability information from vendors and third parties.

• Strong engineering analysis ability

• CySA+ is required within 6 months of joining the team

Other applicable skills for this opportunity

• Provide technical guidance / recommendations to clients to enhance their overall security posture within the managed products.

• Work with vendors, outside consultants, and other third parties to improve information security within the organization.

• Advanced Forensics skills to evaluate current malware and phishing threats.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender Suite

• Experience with SOC capabilities using tools like Azure Monitor, Azure Sentinel, Azure Automation, Azure Backup, Azure Security Center, etc.

• Apply these capabilities to IaaS and PaaS services such and VMs, Azure Service Environment ASE, Azure Kubernetes Service AKS, Spring Cloud, Azure Virtual Desktop, etc.MSFT: SC-200, SC-900, AZ-900, AZ-500

At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member.The targeted base salary range for this role is $138,000-$209,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location.We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process.

Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.