Senior Cloud Security Engineer

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CMS- Cloud Security Posture Management Senior

Responsibilities:

• Monitor Defender for Cloud alert queues and posture dashboards for high-severity signals across Azure and AWS-connected environments.
• Perform initial validation (false positive screening), basic enrichment (resource identifiers, subscription/account, region, environment tags), and severity assignment.
• Triage high-impact recommendations and secure-score changes; create remediation tickets mapped to client ownership (platform/IAM/app teams).
• Escalate confirmed incidents to L2 with a complete evidence bundle (alert metadata, impacted resources, timeline, user/service principal context).
• Maintain documentation: ticket updates, SOP/runbook adherence, and shift handover notes.

Required:

Hands-on experience triaging alerts in Microsoft security tools (Defender portal/Azure portal) and working in ticketing systems (ServiceNow/Jira).

• Core cloud fundamentals:
• Azure subscriptions/resource groups, RBAC concepts
• AWS accounts/regions, basic IAM concepts
• Understanding of CNAPP concepts: posture misconfiguration vs workload threat detection

Preferred Requirements:

• Minimum 3+ years of Cloud technology, specifically in Security engineering, or Security Monitoring roles
• Familiarity with AWS onboarding patterns into Defender for Cloud (high level), including connected environments.
• Basic familiarity with compliance frameworks (CIS/NIST/ISO) and translating findings into actionable tickets.
• Microsoft SC-200, AZ-500; AWS Security Specialty (or equivalent fundamentals).

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