Senior Cloud Security Engineer
robert halfLos Angeles, CA
Senior Cloud Security Engineer A global firm based in Los Angeles, California is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to strengthen its cybersecurity program across cloud, data, endpoint, identity, and enterprise environments. This is an opportunity to join a collaborative technology organization where security, risk management, and operational excellence are critical to the business. The Senior Cloud Security Engineer will be a hands-on member of the Information Security team responsible for securing cloud infrastructure, enterprise data platforms, endpoints, identities, and business-critical systems. This role has a particular emphasis on Microsoft Azure security and will partner closely with data engineering and technology teams to secure modern cloud-based data environments. The ideal candidate combines strong cloud security architecture and engineering expertise with practical experience across security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, data protection, and risk management.
Key Responsibilities:
Serve as a security engineering resource for Microsoft Azure architecture, integrations, network security, identity, access controls, secrets management, and cloud security posture.
Partner with data engineering teams to secure cloud-based data and analytics platforms through appropriate authentication, encryption, network controls, logging, and secrets management.
Review security configurations and architecture for new cloud, application, and data platform integrations prior to production deployment.
Monitor, investigate, and respond to security events involving cloud, endpoint, email, identity, data protection, and enterprise systems.
Lead vulnerability identification, prioritization, remediation tracking, patch management, and cloud security configuration improvements.
Support identity security initiatives including Microsoft Entra ID, conditional access, managed identities, least privilege, and identity governance.
Develop and enhance cloud security monitoring, alerting, data protection, and incident response capabilities.
Apply Infrastructure-as-Code practices to help automate, standardize, and enforce secure cloud configurations.
Conduct security assessments and collaborate with technology vendors and managed security providers to identify and remediate risk.
Support governance, risk, compliance, audit, business continuity, and disaster recovery activities across the organization.
Additional Details:
- 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
- Hands-on security engineering role spanning cloud infrastructure, data platforms, security operations, and enterprise security
- Close collaboration with data engineering, IT, technology vendors, and managed security providers
- Opportunity to work across a broad cybersecurity technology stack within a highly regulated environment
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States
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Level
Lead L6
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Occupation
Information Security Engineers
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