Azure Security Analyst

Azure Security Analyst

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Skills and Expertise:

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including Azure security, networking, identity, resource management, and security best practices.

• Hands-on experience with Azure Policy, including policy definitions, initiatives, assignments, exemptions, compliance evaluation, and remediation.

• Experience securing and supporting enterprise-scale Azure environments.

• Strong understanding of cloud security, risk, governance, and compliance concepts.

• Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code, security controls, and policy deployment.

• Familiarity with JSON for cloud configurations, policy definitions, templates, and service certification requirements.

• Familiarity with Git and GitHub, including source control, pull requests, and GitHub Actions.

• Ability to evaluate security requirements, troubleshoot policy and configuration issues, and collaborate effectively with application, engineering, architecture, and security teams.

• Preferred: Working knowledge or hands-on security experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform), and/or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

• Preferred: Understanding of how common cloud security concepts—such as IAM, network security, policy enforcement, encryption, logging/monitoring, and security posture management—are implemented across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and OCI.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Review and assess existing and new Azure services, resources, architectures, and configurations for security risks, compliance requirements, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations.

• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain Azure Policy definitions, initiatives, assignments, guardrails, exemptions, and approved allow policies; evaluate policy impacts and troubleshoot deployment or operational issues.

• Develop and maintain Terraform modules and security controls, using Terraform as the primary infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool for Azure security and policy deployment.

• Work with JSON-based configurations and templates, including those supporting Azure service certifications and security requirements.

• Use Git and GitHub to manage infrastructure-as-code and security policy changes, including validating GitHub Actions workflows and pull requests (PRs) as needed.

• Monitor Azure environments for security findings, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and policy violations; recommend remediation actions and partner with application and engineering teams to track findings through resolution.

• Support cloud security operations, incident investigations, and troubleshooting, collaborating with cloud engineering, architecture, risk, compliance, cybersecurity, and CSE teams as needed.

• Apply cloud security principles across a multi-cloud environment, with Azure as the primary focus and AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and OCI as secondary platforms.

• Maintain clear documentation for security policies, standards, service certifications, exceptions, guard rails, and operational procedures.