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Senior Cloud Security Engineer
A3N consulting LlcIndependence Township, NJ🇺🇸United StatesPosted 19 Aug 2026
Quick Overview
Work Type
On Site
Level
Mid Senior
Job Description
Job : Senior Cloud Security Engineer
Location: Warren, NJ (Onsite)
Location: Warren, NJ (Onsite)
Required Skills
1. Identity & Access Management
Mandatory
- Microsoft Entra ID: Administer and harden Microsoft Entra ID: app registrations and Enterprise Application permissions, consent governance, service principals and managed identities, credential and secret hygiene, and least-privilege scoping.
- Privileged Access Security: MFA enforcement, Privileged Identity Management (PIM) / just-in-time elevation, role minimization, and break-glass procedures.
Good to Have
- Modern Authentication: Secure and govern modern authentication flows across the estate: OIDC, OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, JWT validation and handling, and mTLS.
- Conditional Access: Design, implement, and continuously tune Conditional Access policies.
- App Registrations & Enterprise Applications: App registrations and Enterprise Application permissions, consent governance, service principals and managed identities, credential and secret hygiene, and least-privilege scoping.
2. Cloud Security
Mandatory
- Security Findings Remediation: Own the full lifecycle of security findings and recommendations through triage, remediation, verification, and closure.
- Recurrence Prevention: Root-cause recurring issues and implement systemic fixes using policy-as-code, automated guardrails, and secure baselines.
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Drive secure-score improvement, remediate recommendations, and manage cloud security posture (CSPM).
- Security Governance: Contribute to standards, control definitions, exception handling, and audit evidence.
- Cloud & SaaS Admin Portal Security: Secure all cloud and SaaS administrative portals, including Azure, Microsoft 365 admin, identity providers, and additional cloud platforms in use.
Good to Have
- Azure Policy: Build and enforce guardrails using Azure Policy; maintain secure-by-default baselines and detect or remediate configuration drift.
3. Terraform for IaC
Optional
- Terraform & Secure IaC Baselines: Build and enforce guardrails using Terraform; maintain secure-by-default infrastructure-as-code baselines and detect or remediate configuration drift.
4. AI Security
Mandatory
- AI Workloads, Services & Agents: Apply security controls to AI workloads, services, and AI agents.
- AI Identities, Permissions & Risk: Agent and workload identities, tool and permission scoping, data-exposure and prompt-injection risk, and emerging AI security best practices.
Skills
MFA
OAuth
Azure
JWT
Terraform
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