Cloud Security Engineer

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Job Title :- Azure Security Engineer III

Design, implement, and maintain security solutions in Azure.

Conduct security assessments and reviews of Azure environments, making recommendations that satisfy cybersecurity standards.

Develop and enforce security standards, guidelines and procedures.

Collaborate with the Cyber Defense team and support incident response for Azure-related security events.

Collaborate with development teams to integrate security best practices into CI/CD pipelines.

Work with Azure admin team to integrate cybersecurity standards when deficiencies are identified, working together to provide paved paths for internal customers.

Actively follow security trends, threats, and technologies.

Assist in establishing, optimizing, and enhancing regulatory and compliance processes.

Continuously learns and evolves skill set to remain current with cloud native application delivery best practices and methods.

Completes technical security deliverables on assigned projects.

Awareness of a broad set of Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings, so that you can engage DevOps teams implementing a variety of services.

Strong knowledge of networking, firewalls, VPNs, Azure RBAC, SSO with SAML and/or OIDC, managing Azure service principals, understanding Graph API permissions, and other security technologies.

Operating knowledge of Azure networking, Azure firewalls, network security groups, virtual WAN and common troubleshooting techniques.

Possess troubleshooting skills in the areas of cloud security, cloud networking and Azure private DNS.

Familiarity with the Cloud Adoption Framework and ability to express critical thinking around its application in mature technology organizations.

Demonstrable experience with any form of threat modeling.

Working experience of regularly writing scripts or other automation using a common language such as shell or Python

Pairing your hunger to learn the newest cloud native tools with the capabilities and stack of the overall organization

Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Information Technology, Information Systems Management, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Professional experience in a technical engineering position involving infrastructure design technologies, data management and interchange, system design and / or development for complex applications.

Ability to translate complex business and functional requirements into structured high quality implementations using any variety of common approaches.

Experience operating in GCP or AWS.

Experience deploying or maintaining Azure-based Palo Alto next generation firewalls.

Relevant certifications such as Azure Security Engineer Associate, CISSP, CISM, or similar are highly desirable.

At least 10 years combined experience as individual contributor in an IT discipline with a minimum of 5 years in Cybersecurity specifically and 5 years minimum working in public cloud.

Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

medical insurance) (dental insurance) (vision insurance) (401(k) retirement plan) (long-term disability insurance)(shortterm disability insurance) (5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State days of paid vacation time) (6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year) (Ascendion Learning Management System)This position is eligible for commissions in accordance with the terms of the Company's plan. Commissions for this position are estimated to be based on individual performance. Additionally, this role is also eligible for a bonus based on the achievement of mutually agreed KRAs.

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