Azure Security Engineer

Introduction
Information and Data are some of the most important organizational assets in today’s businesses. As a Security Consultant you will be a key advisor for IBM’s clients analyzing business requirements to design and implement the best security solutions for their needs. You will apply your technical skills to find the balance between enabling and securing the client’s organization with the cognitive solutions that are making IBM the fastest growing enterprise security business in the world.

Your Role and Responsibilities
The Azure Security Engineer will support a large team of infrastructure security and application team during migration of on-prem 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 Technical and Professional Expertise

• Azure Certification
• 5+ years 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)
• 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 + Experence 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.
• Ability to acquire a Public Trust Background investigation
• Certified in industry recognized areas such as CISSP CISA or CISM

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 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
• Experience with FedRAMP compliance is preferred