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Senior Cloud Security Engineer

DIA SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS LLC
Mechanicsville, VA Contractor
POSTED ON 10/27/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/25/2026

Job Description

The Senior Cloud Security Engineer works closely with Cloud Engineering, Network Engineering, Security Operations, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Application Development, DevOps, Risk Management, and IT leadership to ensure cloud environments are secure, resilient, compliant, and aligned with enterprise security standards.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Identify cloud security vulnerabilities, assess risk based on business impact, prioritize remediation, track remediation activities, and validate corrective actions
  • Lead complex cloud security initiatives and provide technical directions to engineers. Also assist in the design of secure cloud architecture for complex enterprise environments
  • Influence architecture and security decisions and prevent insecure configurations from reaching production and implement security gates within deployment pipelines.
  • Explain complex security risks to non-technical stakeholders
  • Assess cloud security risks and security gaps and recommend appropriate remediations. Create and maintain security documentation and evidence as well as support audits and assessments.
  • Review proposed cloud solutions for security risk and define appropriate security and compensation controls.
  • Will develop Azure policies to enforce standardization and compliance with enterprise requirements, as well as creating Azure Automation runbooks to support incident response workflows.
  • Monitor security events using SIEM technologies and work with VDOT s SOC team to coordinate incident response activities.
  • Identifies and diagnoses system problems and threats by using system logs, line monitors, SIEM, diagnostic software, and test equipment.
  • Lead investigation and containment of cloud security incidents.
  • Review firewall and NSG rule requests and ensure compliance with security standards.
  • Must have the ability to provide documentation, architecture topology diagrams, IP schemes and access controls when required.
  • Must have the ability to work independently on assigned projects.


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SKILLS MATRIX

Skill

Required

Amount of Experience

Experience

Enterprise Cloud Experience

Required

8 Years


Enterprise Cloud Security Experience

Required

5 Years


Candidate must be highly experienced as a cloud security professional with strong hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure and cloud engineering

Required



Candidatte must be highly experienced in cybersecurity, networking, identity, security operations, and have a deep cloud engineering competency

Required



Candidate must have in-depth experience moving between strategic architecture and hands-on engineering and identifying security risks

Required



Candidate must have in-depth experience designing practical solutions, implementing controls, and working with infrastructure teams

Required



Candidate musth have in-depth experience working with application teams to continuously improve the organization's cloud security posture

Required



Candidate must have experience setting up Network Security Groups (NSGs), resource manager and management groups, monitor and log analytics,

Required



Candidate must have experience setting up Azure Firewall, Azure WAF, Azure Monitor, Application Gateways, virtual networks and network segmentation.

Required



Candidate must have experiences in: Incident response, Security investigations, Log analysis, Threat intelligence, Security monitoring, IOC analysis

Required



Candidate must have experiences coordinating during cyber incidents

Required



Candidate must have experience in vulnerability management, remediation tracking, vulnerability scanning tools (e.g. Nessus, Tenable, Defender)

Required



Candidate must have experience securing enterprise cloud environments and implementing security controls in production environments

Required



Candidate must have experience with the SIEM products (e.g. Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CNAPP),

Required



Candidate must have experience with log management, security analytics, SOC integration, Threat detection, and Threat hunting

Required



Candidate must also have hands on expertise validating indexer parsers, leveraging Splunk Query Language for monitoring and data analysis.

Required



Candidate must have experience collaborating with the security governance team and application leads to implement enterprise log management standards.

Required



Candidate must have experience with; SEC530, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, Zero Trust principles

Required



Candidate must have experience in cloud vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and risk assessment and prioritization

Required



Candidate must have experience in cloud risk assessment and prioritization, attack surface management, and Cloud Security Posture Management (VSPM)

Required



Candidate must have experience in Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) and Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)

Required



Candidate must have experience developing Azure Policy to enforce standardization and compliance with enterprise requirements

Required



Candidate must have experience creating Azure Automation runbooks to support incident response workflows.

Required



Candidate must have experience with Identity and access management (IAM), Role-based Access control (RBAC), and Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Required



Candidate must have experience with Least-privilege access and multi-factor authentication

Required



Candidate must have experience working in highly regulated environments with large government agencies or similar regulatory environments.

Required



Candidate must have ability to communicate technical issues to technical, non-techical, and executive audiences.

Required



Candidate must have ability mentor junior engineers.

Required



Required: Azure Security Engineer Associate, Security , Certified Cloud Security Professional certifications

Required



Preferred: CCSP, Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure (AZ-305)

Desired

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