Senior Cloud Security Engineer (Azure)

Location: India/Kochi

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: 3-4 years Experience

Job Overview

As a Cloud Security Engineer (Azure), you will work closely with architects, administrators, and developers to plan and implement solutions that meet security and compliance requirements. You will also collaborate with security operations to respond to security incidents in Azure.

Key Responsibilities

Azure Cloud Security

• Implement regulatory compliance controls for Azure infrastructure, including identity and access, network, compute, storage, data, applications, asset management, backup and recovery, and DevOps security.

• Implement and maintain Azure AD security policies.

• Implement and maintain M365 E5 security suites, including Intune, Defender for Cloud, and Purview.

• Administer Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments.

• Maintain strong familiarity with Microsoft Entra ID, as well as compute, network, and storage in Azure.

SIEM Log Onboarding

• Onboard, configure, and manage log sources for SIEM tools, with a focus on Microsoft Sentinel.

• Utilize data processing pipelines like Logstash to manage log sources for SIEM tools.

• Conduct log analysis to identify security incidents, anomalies, and potential threats.

• Develop and fine-tune search queries using KQL or SPL for effective data analysis.

• Utilize regular expressions to extract and manipulate data from log files.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Security, or related field.

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ500) Certification and Security Operations Analyst Associate SC-200 certification is required, and having SC-300 and SC-400 certifications would be beneficial

• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.

• At least 2 years of experience in Microsoft Sentinel and a minimum of 1 year of experience in managing Azure Cloud.