Azure Cloud Security Engineer

Azure Cloud & Security Engineer Remote - work from anywhere in Europe | Full-time contractor 

If your idea of a good day involves tightening conditional access policies, investigating Sentinel alerts, and automating Azure deployments before lunch - this role is for you. 

A global professional services company needs a senior engineer to own their Azure security and infrastructure. You’ll protect cloud workloads, harden identities, manage the Microsoft security stack end-to-end, and build the automation that keeps everything running. This is a security-first infrastructure role with real scope and autonomy. 

What you’ll do 

• Implement and monitor cloud security: Defender for Cloud, Sentinel SIEM, DLP, threat protection 
• Manage identity security: Entra ID, conditional access, RBAC, hybrid AD, B2C 
• Design and maintain Azure infrastructure: networking, compute, storage, microservices 
• Secure and administer M365 (Exchange, SharePoint, Teams) including migrations 
• Automate infrastructure with PowerShell, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines 
• Manage endpoint security via Intune, Autopilot, and CrowdStrike 
• Respond to L3 security and infrastructure escalations 

Tech stack 

Azure (VMs, AKS, AVD, NSGs, Express Route, VPN) · Defender for Cloud & Endpoints · Sentinel SIEM · CrowdStrike · Entra ID & Hybrid AD · Intune & Autopilot · Microsoft 365 · PowerShell · Terraform · Azure DevOps · SQL/Cosmos DB · Windows Server · Linux 

Must have 

• 4+ years in Azure with strong security focus 
• Hands-on with Microsoft security stack (Defender, Sentinel, conditional access, DLP) 
• PowerShell automation and IaC experience 
• Hybrid identity management 
• Upper-Intermediate+ English 

Nice to have 

• Security certs (AZ-500, MS-500, SC-200) 
• Azure infrastructure certs (AZ-104) 
• DevOps tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Terraform modules) 
• AI-assisted security operations (Copilot for Security) 

• SIEM tuning and incident response experience

   

What we offer 

• Fully remote across Europe 
• Long-term, stable engagement - not project-based churn 
• Autonomy in a small senior team 
• Compensated on-call