Senior Security Engineer

Overview

Edgewater is currently seeking a hands-on Senior Security Architect/Azure Cloud Security Engineer to support secure Azure development, application modernization, and cloud migration of our federal customer in the Washington DC area. This is a hybrid position with a requirement to work onsite four to six days a month, subject to change.The Azure Security Engineer should be hands-on in all aspects of Azure security including implementing security controls and threat protection, managing identity and access management, defining organizational structure and policies, using Azure technologies to provide data protection, configuring network security defenses, collecting and analyzing Azure logs, managing incident responses, and an understanding of regulatory concerns.

This is a remote position but requires the candidate to work at the federal site in Washington DC at least one day a month so candidates local to the Washington, DC area strongly preferred.

Due to the contract and nature of the work, US Citizenship is required to obtain a Department of Energy security clearance.

Responsibilities:* + Maintain and improve the security posture of the Azure platform by identifying, and remediating vulnerabilities by using a variety of security tools. + Provide cyber security expertise in the analysis, assessment, development, and evaluation of security solutions and architectures to secure applications, operating systems, databases, and networks. + Implement and configure security controls and policies across the IT infrastructure to manage access to data and monitor threats to ensure that data, apps, containers, and networks are protected. + Maintain native tools like Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Defender for IoT, Defender for O365 and Microsoft Sentinel. + Facilitate the secure migrations of on-prem applications to the Azure cloud. + Implementing threat protection and responding to securit...