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US Tech Solutions Microsoft Azure Cloud Security Engineer in Charlotte, North Carolina
Hybrid, 1-2 days/week in office*
Description:
We are looking for a Microsoft Azure cloud security engineer to join our team and help us protect our data in our cloud environment from cyber threat actors . You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring security solutions with focus on data security for our Microsoft Azure environment, as well as ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations and security best practices into our cloud applications and services. . You will also participate in a cross functional team with other cloud security engineers and collaborate with other stakeholders to ensure compliance, risk management, and incident response.
Responsibilities
• Partner with Cybersecurity Architect and other Cybersecurity teams to design and implement cloud data security policies, standards, and procedures for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Identity Access Management, and Data Protection.
• Perform security assessments and audits of our data, and remediate any vulnerabilities or issues.
• Partner with Cloud platform teams (Azure, AWS, OCI, GCP) to design and implement security controls.
• Monitor and respond to data security incidents and events, and conduct root cause analysis and remediation.
• Establish and document repeatable processes that ensure proper use of the encryption, key management, data masking, and data labeling technologies in the cloud.
• Develop and maintain security documentation, such as risk assessments, security plans, incident reports, and security awareness materials as related to Data Protection.
• Ensuring compliance with data protection legislation and standards.
• Research and evaluate new cloud data security technologies and trends, and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to implement and tune cloud data security monitoring, tools, and reporting for data protection policies.
• Collaborate with other engineers and developers to ensure data security is integrated into the cloud development lifecycle and DevOps processes.
• Designing and enforcing policies for data access, retention, and deletion.
• Provide security training and guidance to cloud users and stakeholders for data protection.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in cloud security, preferably in Microsoft Azure.
• Deep understanding of Azure data protection mechanisms and encryption methods.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security concepts, principles, and best practices, such as identity and access management, encryption, logging, monitoring, firewall, network security, etc.
• Proficiency in data protection strategies for cloud storage, databases, and applications.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure security services and tools, such as Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel, Azure Key Vault, Azure Active Directory, and Azure CloudTrail for data protection.
• Familiarity with Azure data privacy and residency controls.
• Ability to perform risk assessments and data protection audits.
• Knowledge of Azure-specific data protection tools and services,
• Experience with Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Identity Access Management (IAM), and Data Protection solutions.
• Experience with security frameworks and standards, such as NIST, ISO, CIS, etc.
• Experience with security testing tools and methodologies, such as vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, etc.
• Experience with security information and event management (SIEM) systems including creating and refining searches for alerting purposes.
• Experience with scripting languages, such as PowerShell, Python, etc.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code.
• Experience with DevOps tools and processes, such as Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD, etc.
• Experience with data lakes
• Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Certifications in cloud security, such as Azure Security Engineer Associate, Azure Security Technologies, etc., are preferred.
About US Tech Solutions:
US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com (http://www.ustechsolutionsinc.com/) .
US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.