Senior Azure Cloud Security Engineer

About this role

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Title: Senior Azure Cloud Security Engineer

Location: Mechanicsville, VA, (Hybrid)

Position Type: Contract

Interview Mode: Either Phone or In Person

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.

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