Azure Security Engineer

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Your role and responsibilities

The Azure Security Engineer will support a large team of infrastructure security and application team during migration of on-premise and cloud applications to the client Azure Government enclave. The Azure security engineer will configure, operate and maintain Azure cloud native tools. The engineer will provide support for security assessment and authorization/ ATO process, security audits and will operate and maintain Azure security tools for security monitoring, analysis, and reporting.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 5+ years of experience configuring, deploying and maintaining and optimizing Azure Security cloud native tools:
  • Azure Sentinel including User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), and Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
  • Azure Defender including Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Azure Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP).
  • Azure Purview (Data Loss Prevention)
  • Azure Defender for Cloud
  • Azure Log Analytics
• Experience with KQL
• Configure rules for real-time alerting in SIEM tool for events;
• Provide security monitoring including log aggregation/centralization, correlation, and alerting of security events and incidents;
• Review and analyze audit records weekly for identified unusual activity and provide evidence of review and/or findings;
• Conduct account reviews;
• Determine auditable events and review on an annual basis;
• Support incident response activities;
• Microsoft Azure Security related certifications are strongly recommended
• 5+ years experience implementing security controls and policies, managing access to data, and monitoring threats to ensure that data, applications, infrastructure, and networks are protected.
• 5 + Experience with Security Assessment and Authorization (ATO) process
• Support audit data calls
• Bachelors Degree and a minimum 5 years experience. Additional years of experience maybe accepted in lieu of the degree.
• U.S. Citizen
• Ability to acquire a Public Trust Background investigation

Preferred technical and professional experience

• SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst/ SC-100 Cybersecurity Architect Expert/AZ/SC-500 Azure Security Engineer Associate
• Experience with Windows and Linux Administration
• Certified in industry recognized areas such as CISSP, CISA, or CISM
• Excellent organization, collaboration, project management, and team leadership skills
• Strong communication skills and experience creating and delivering compliance status and metrics briefings to senior leadership
• 2+ years experience coordinating across security, IT operations, audit, and development groups to achieve security outcomes
• Experienced with FedRAMP compliance is preferred