Azure Cloud Security Engineer

Who we are:

ShorePoint is a fast-growing, industry recognized, and award-winning cybersecurity services firm with a focus on high-profile, high-threat, private and public-sector customers who demand experience and proven security models to protect their data. ShorePoint subscribes to a “work hard, play hard” mentality and celebrates individual and company successes. We are passionate about our mission and going above and beyond to deliver for our customers. We are equally passionate about an environment that supports creativity, accountability, diversity, inclusion, and a focus on giving back to our community.  

The Perks:

As recognized members of the Cyber Elite, we work together in partnership to defend our nation’s critical infrastructure while building meaningful and exciting career development opportunities in a culture tailored to the individual technical and professional growth. We are committed to the belief that our team members do their best work when they are happy and well cared for. In support of this philosophy, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including major carriers for health care providers. Highlighted benefits offered: 18 days of PTO, 11 holidays, 80% of insurance premium covered, 401k, continued education, certifications maintenance and reimbursement, etc.

Who we’re looking for:

We are seeking an Azure Cloud Security Engineer who has experience providing support in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within the public sector. This is a unique opportunity to shape the growth, development, and culture of an exciting and fast-growing company in the cybersecurity market. The Cybersecurity and Cloud Security Engineer will have the opportunity to be exposed to all aspects of support to a federal client and will be encouraged to grow as the organization expands.  

What you’ll be doing: 

• Performs analysis, design, and development of security features for system architectures
• Designs, develops, engineers, and implements solutions that meet security requirements of agency customer
• Analyzes general security-related technical problems and provides engineering and technical support in resolving such problems
• Ensures that all information systems are functional and secure

What you need to know: 

• Experience performing analysis of proposed changes to security controls
• Ability to support security workflows by performing analysis (e.g., DLP, SafeLinks, log file reviews)
• Experience and ability to configure, implement, and maintain security tools
• Prior experience analyzing security tools (e.g., Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Information Protection) to ensure they align with agency policies and procedures and are properly configured (ex. Microsoft Secure Score, Guard Duty, etc)
• Ability to continuously research, engineer and recommend areas for improvement to the agency’s security environment and toolset
• Experience providing support to incident response and security operations by coordinating with agency service providers and agency directly during investigations
• Experience with developing and ability to run security tests on cloud resources (ex. Data loss prevention, security configuration) using native tools

Must have’s: 

• Minimum of 5 years of IT Security experience, preferably in a security engineering or cloud engineering role
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline from an accredited college or university required
• One or more certification in information technology security that meets or exceeds DoD 8570 IAM Level II
  
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills including the ability to communicate effectively with internal stakeholders
• Experience with NIST 800 series publications
• Ability to obtain federal agency required clearance

Where it’s done: 

• Herndon, VA or Remote