SC Cleared Azure Infrastructure and Security Engineer

We are partnering with a government sector client delivering a Microsoft cloud security modernisation programme, and are seeking an experienced Tenant Assessment Engineer to join on a contract basis. You will assess Azure environments to establish the infrastructure, identity, networking and connectivity foundations needed to support the programme. Working through structured tenant assessments, you will gather technical evidence, identify readiness gaps and dependencies, and recommend remediation actions and the appropriate delivery wave for each tenant.
Key Responsibilities

• Conduct structured technical assessments across Azure tenants and environments.
• Assess hosting, networking, identity, connectivity, Servers, endpoints and agents.
• Validate the infrastructure prerequisites required for Microsoft Sentinel and associated security services.
• Identify technical gaps, dependencies, blockers and remediation requirements.
• Gather and maintain evidence to support assessment findings.
• Assess and document tenant readiness.
• Recommend remediation actions and delivery-wave placement.
• Escalate architecture or design exceptions to the Infrastructure Architect.
• Provide clarification and technical support during the remediation phase where required.

Key Deliverables

• Per-tenant technical assessment
• Technical evidence pack
• Readiness score and assessment
• Dependency and blocker log
• Recommended remediation actions
• Delivery-wave recommendation

Essential Experience

• Strong background in Azure infrastructure assessment.
• Sound understanding of Azure networking, connectivity and identity.
• Experience assessing server, endpoint and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID and identity dependencies.
• Understanding of Microsoft Sentinel infrastructure prerequisites.
• Strong technical discovery, evidence-gathering and readiness-assessment skills.
• Proven ability to identify dependencies, blockers and remediation requirements.
• Experience working across complex or multi-tenant Microsoft environments.

Desirable Knowledge

• Microsoft 365 infrastructure dependencies
• Windows Server and endpoint architecture
• Hybrid cloud environments
• Microsoft Sentinel and Defender fundamentals
• Azure Monitor Agent and associated prerequisites
• Security monitoring and SOC environments

This would be an Inside IR35 Contract role working via umbrella company and as this is a defence sector customer you must be a UK National to be considered for this role. This is due to the occupational nature of the role, and the fact that brings with it risks to national security.