Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Location: Remote in the United States

United States Citizenship Required

Job Description:

Our consulting practice streamlines complex digital transformations to empower organizations with cyber resiliency. Our team of expert cloud security engineers collaborates seamlessly with our organizational change and IT project management consultants, ensuring efficient and effective deployments and implementations. The Senior Cloud Security Engineer will advise on cloud security best practices and configure, review, and consult on Azure security environments for our customers. 

This role will focus on the design and development of information security architecture and ensure technology initiatives are implemented within the framework to make our customer’s Azure cloud environments more secure. This role is responsible for securing enterprise information by identifying network and application security requirements, planning, implementing, and testing security controls and procedures. The ideal candidate will partner closely with our sales teams and other business units as part of a larger sales strategy leading to creating transformational security strategies for our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Own successful implementation of Azure and M365 solutions 
• Support complex migrations of data, endpoints, and end users
• Meet regularly with customers and lead workshops
• Establish strong and lasting relationships with key stakeholders and decision makers in client organizations
• Ensure that a quality solution is delivered on time, within budget, and with high customer satisfaction
• Support internal sales teams to execute comprehensive Azure Cloud security architecture strategies, frameworks and reference models that support business needs and objectives in complex customer environments
• Provide pre-sales support and “thought leadership” for the upcoming opportunities
• Create technical roadmaps, project plans, requirements, designs, and implementation plan in Azure Cloud solutions
• Work closely with enterprise architects to identify and mitigate risks, perform security reviews, design top tier security practices, and deliver strategic, innovative cloud-based security offerings
• Identify appropriate technology/data sources and drive the collection of data necessary to effectively evaluate threats
• Analyze threats and current security controls to identify gaps in current defensive posture
• Develop education and mentoring opportunities for more junior consultants
• Automation of repetitive IT (Information Technology) tasks 
• Willingness and ability to achieve and maintain MSFT technical certifications relevant to the role

Requirements

• Willing to work in a fast-paced environment to support the needs of rapidly growing businesses
• Ability to balance multiple projects at one time while maintaining attention to detail
• Maintain a positive, solutions-focused attitude
• Ability to use good judgement and keep client information confidential
• Bold, confident & open to feedback 
• Strategic, analytical, collaborative 
• Adaptive problem solver with grit
• Acumen, emotional stability, and high learning agility
• Mission oriented

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university preferred but not required
• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience as a Security or Cloud Engineer/Architect in a service-oriented architecture for cloud-based services, or 5 years of secure cloud engineering combined with 5 or more years of traditional data center engineering and architecture
• Preferred Certifications: Microsoft (MS-500, AZ-500, MS-100), CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) certifications
• Solid foundation across the Microsoft 365 technology stack and Azure security offerings with the ability to communicate security and risk-related concepts to key partners
• Advanced specializations across all elements of Microsoft Security
• Experience implementing Enterprise Mobility and Security Suite (EM+S), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), Azure Information Protection (AIP) and Intune
• Experience managing and implementing Azure Key Vault, Azure Security Center, Azure Operations Management Service, Log Analytics, and Azure Sentinel
• Experience designing migration of workloads to the cloud including users, endpoints, Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams
• Identity & Access Management (IAM), including B2B and B2C cloud design and implementation
• Extensive knowledge and experience with developing Cloud Security Frameworks using indu