Azure Security Engineer
The Judge Group Inc.

Location: REMOTE
Salary: $70.00 USD Hourly - $80.00 USD Hourly
Description:
Job Title: Azure Security Engineer

Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ (Remote)

Duration: Contract to hire

Job Description:

The successful Candidate is responsible for implementing technology initiatives to secure our key government client's cloud environment. The selected candidate will be accountable for assisting in strategic planning and architecture, and securing enterprise information by identifying network and application security requirements, implementing and testing security controls and procedures.

The primary areas of focus for the candidate is to enable Cloud Cybersecurity controls and compliance requirements and remediation programs based on business priorities and risks to address Cyber-Security, Cyber Defense and Business needs of our customer.

Experience Required: (Microsoft Azure Cloud experience preferred; Gov-Cloud experience preferred)

• Education: Bachelor's degree in a technology field, Master's degree preferred.
• 5+ years cyber related experience in a commercial environment with Azure, in a technical information security and risk management role.
• 5+ years managing security policies and initiatives in Azure.
• Identity Access and Management concepts, multifactor authentication, SSO/Federation
• Privileged Access Management key concepts
• Ability to set up and configure the Azure security platforms, and function as an overall lead managing end to end security on the Azure Cloud regions.
• Network and Application Vulnerability testing as it relates to Azure systems.
• Security concepts & tools related to CI/CD pipelines, and software scanning.
• Able to demonstrate understanding of Information Security and Risk Management capabilities related to cloud computing across Windows and Linux, with demonstrated direct experience with the following domains:
• Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM)
• Authentication and Authorization including SSO and Identify Federation
• Zero-Trust Model
• Defense-In-Depth
• Governance and Compliance
• Securing Data
• Securing the Operating System
• Protecting the Network Layer
• Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation, Alerting, Audit Trail, and Incident Response
• Cloud Core Platform:?Compute, Storage, Networking

Other experience desired:

• Government environments and Gov-Cloud experience
• Certifications: CISSP, CCSP, Azure/AWS/Google Security specific Training and Certification
• CrowdStrike Falcon EDR for Azure
• Managing/maintaining FISMA and FedRAMP compliance for a government information system
• Demonstrated experience collaborating directly with external clients, business leadership, and auditors.

5+ Firsthand working with the various Azure security tools/platforms such as:

• Extended Detection and Response (XDR): Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Data Protection: Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Information Protection, DLP, One Trust, Kubernetes
• Identity and Access Management (IAM): Zero Trust, Azure IAM and AWS IAM, Entra ID (Azure AD), Multitenant Organization (MTO), Lighthouse, Key Vault, Conditional Assess
• Monitoring Compliance: Sentinel, MDC
• Entra ID (formally Azure AD), M365

Contact: vsingh02@judge.com

This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Find us on the web at www.judge.com

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