REMOTE Azure Security Engineer

Post Date

Aug 08, 2023

Location

Irvine,
California

ZIP/Postal Code

92618
US
Sep 18, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract-to-perm

Category

Security Engineering

Req #

OCC-642540

Pay Rate

$51 - $77 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

An employer for a large retail marketing agency is looking for a REMOTE Azure Security Engineer to join a team of 2+ security members + members from the TIGER (Scrum team - over 20+ members). This person will be involved in a large scale cloud migration to Azure and focused on deploying the Security side within Azure. They will be building/setting up the security environment from the ground up including:

* They will be building everything on the security side of things from the ground up such as benchmarks, alerting, logging, security assessments, vulnerability scans, penetration testing, firewalls, vulnerability management, as well as writing, fine tuning, and enforcing security policies (configure, writing, and implementing policies)

* This role will be reporting to the CISO level - HIGHLY visible project and communication with high-level executives

**This role is 100% REMOTE - flexible in any time zone**

Required Skills & Experience

-7+ years of experience as a Cloud Security Engineer

-5+ years of experience working with Azure in a Security Environment (understanding security capabilities of Azure and worked with this in the past)

-Experience building security from ground up in Azure (benchmarks, alerting, logging, security policies, etc)

-Experience with Security Policy Creation

-IAM Experience (aligns with Azure experience)

-Strong written and verbal communication

-Agile/Scrum Environment

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

BA Degree/MBA

Azure Cloud Certifications

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.