Azure Cloud Security Engineer

ELITS Canada Inc. is part of Accelerate, within the IVER Group in Sweden. IVER Group has approximately 1,300 employees and continues to grow. Through Accelerate, we work at the forefront of technology on digitization and transformation projects for market leading customers. We help customers turn digital ambition into successful implementation through close collaboration, humility, and pride in what we deliver.

ELITS Canada is looking for an experienced Azure Cloud Security Engineer for a remote consulting assignment based in Canada. Candidates must be authorized to work in Canada and able to perform the role remotely from within Canada.

In this role, you will strengthen and continuously improve the security posture of Microsoft Azure environments. You will work proactively with security recommendations, cloud governance, vulnerability remediation, infrastructure hardening, and security reporting to ensure cloud platforms follow established security principles and best practices.

•  Analyze, prioritize, and remediate security recommendations from Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

•  Improve and maintain the Microsoft Secure Score through proactive security measures and continuous follow up.

•  Design, implement, and maintain security controls across Microsoft Azure cloud environments.

•  Configure and manage Azure Policy to enforce governance, compliance, and security standards.

•  Coordinate patching, vulnerability remediation, and hardening activities for Azure virtual machines and other cloud workloads.

•  Review and improve the security configuration of Azure Compute, Azure Networking, Azure Storage, and Microsoft Entra ID environments.

•  Produce clear technical documentation, security reports, remediation plans, and status updates for stakeholders.

•  Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field, with at least five years of relevant professional experience.

•  Senior level hands on experience working with Microsoft Azure cloud services and enterprise scale cloud environments.

•  Strong knowledge of Azure Compute, Azure Networking, Azure Storage, and Microsoft Entra ID, formerly known as Azure Active Directory.

•  Practical experience using Microsoft Defender for Cloud to identify, assess, and remediate cloud security risks.

•  Experience working with the Azure Portal, Azure Command Line Interface, also known as Azure CLI, and or Microsoft PowerShell.

•  Solid understanding of Azure Policy, cloud governance, identity and access management, and role based access control.

•  Strong knowledge of network security, encryption, vulnerability management, security hardening, and the principle of least privilege.

•  Communicative, positive, and customer oriented.

•  Strong analytical skills, logical reasoning, and problem solving abilities.

•  Responsible, autonomous, and resourceful.

•  Team oriented, organized, and committed to quality results.

•  Creative and proactive, with ideas to improve products and processes.

•  Able to coordinate and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

Are you a social, flexible, and structured person with a great interest in information technology? Do you find development, constructing, and use of the latest technologies challenging? In that case, send your application to us today!

This position is fully remote from Canada and is open to Canadian residents, including persons with a valid work permit in Canada.

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