21d ago

Azure Cloud Security Engineer

mid
EngineeringSecurity Engineer
0 views0 saves0 applied

Quick Summary

Overview

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover across all aspects of the security lifecycle.

Technical Tools
EngineeringSecurity Engineer

Requirements

~1 min read
  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience

  • Minimum of 1 years of experience in Azure Cloud engineering and cloud security, infrastructure, or related technical roles

  • Hands-on experience deploying, configuring or supporting Azure IaaS and PaaS resources

  • Working knowledge of Azure landing-zone concepts, including management groups, subscriptions, resource organization, policy and access control

  • Practical understanding of Azure networking, including virtual networks, subnets, routing, network security groups, firewalls, private connectivity and DNS

  • Understanding of Azure identity and access management, including role-based access control, managed identities and least-privilege access

  • Experience implementing or validating cloud security baselines and resource hardening requirements

  • Familiarity with Azure Policy and policy-driven cloud governance

  • Basic experience with Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates or another infrastructure-as-code technology

  • Understanding of encryption, key management, secrets management, logging and monitoring in Azure

  • Ability to analyse cloud configurations, identify security weaknesses and support their remediation

  • Understanding of cloud security principles, risk assessment methodologies, and security control validation

  • Knowledge of cloud compliance, risk assessment, and security governance concepts

  • Familiarity with cloud security posture management (CSPM) solutions

  • Basic understanding of CI/CD processes and associated security considerations

  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

  • Ability to collaborate effectively with cloud platform, networking, infrastructure and DevOps engineers

  • Fluent English, with clear written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

~2 min read
  • →

    Support business and technology projects by providing cloud security expertise throughout the project lifecycle

  • →

    Support the secure design, implementation and continuous improvement of Azure landing zones

  • →

    Implement and validate security controls for Azure IaaS and PaaS resources

  • →

    Define, maintain and promote baselines and hardening standards to Azure subscriptions, virtual machines, storage, databases, application services and other cloud resources

  • →

    Support the implementation of Azure identity and access controls, including role-based access control, managed identities, privileged access and least-privilege permissions

  • →

    Implement and troubleshoot network security controls, including network security groups, Azure Firewall, private endpoints, service endpoints, routing and network segmentation

  • →

    Review cloud architectures and validate security requirements through security assessments and architecture reviews

  • →

    Contribute to the design, implementation and continuous improvement of secure Azure cloud architectures

  • →

    Assess cloud-native services and workloads to identify security risks and recommend mitigation measures

  • →

    Secure CI/CD pipelines by defining and promoting security controls across development, building, testing and deployment processes.

  • →

    Collaborate with infrastructure, development and DevOps teams to integrate security controls into cloud environments

  • →

    Monitor cloud security posture and support remediation activities identified through CSPM findings

  • →

    Assist in the enforcement of cloud governance and security policies across Azure environments

  • →

    Configure and maintain Azure Policies to implement and enforce cloud security controls

  • →

    Stay informed about emerging cloud security threats, vulnerabilities and industry best practices

Nice to Have

~1 min read
  • Experience supporting or implementing an Azure landing zone and network security components

  • Hands-on experience with Azure Policy and CSPM tools

  • Experience securing Azure virtual machines, storage accounts, databases, application services, containers or Kubernetes services

  • Experience performing cloud security assessments and secure cloud architecture reviews

  • Exposure to security baseline development and cloud hardening practices

  • Understanding of cloud risk management and remediation processes

  • Knowledge of CI/CD security controls and secure deployment practices

  • Relevant Azure, cloud, or cybersecurity certifications are considered an advantage, including:

    o    Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

    o    Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

    o    Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

Acreditamos que ninguém deve ser discriminado por suas diferenças. Todas as decisões de contratação devem ser tomadas sem distinção de idade, raça, credo, cor, religião, sexo, nacionalidade, ascendência, deficiência, condição de veterano militar, orientação sexual, identidade ou expressão de gênero, informação genética, estado civil, cidadania ou qualquer outra condição protegida pela legislação aplicável. Nossa rica diversidade nos torna mais inovadores, competitivos e criativos, o que nos ajuda a atender melhor nossos clientes e nossas comunidades.

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
—
Location terms not specified

Listing Details

Posted
September 15, 2026
First seen
September 30, 2026
Last seen
October 6, 2026

Posting Health

Days active
5
Repost count
0
Trust Level
23%
Scored at
October 6, 2026

Signal breakdown

freshnesssource trustcontent trustemployer trust
Newsletter

Stay ahead of the market

Get the latest job openings, salary trends, and hiring insights delivered to your inbox every week.

A
B
C
D
Join 12,000+ marketers

No spam. Unsubscribe at any time.

Azure Cloud Security Engineer