Senior Azure Engineer - Ardalyst

Job Title: Senior Azure Engineer

Job Type: Full Time

Location: Remote/with travel to Suffolk, VA

Clearance: Secret

Who is Ardalyst Defense, LLC?

Ardalyst Defense, LLC is a Maryland, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) that provides engineering services and technical, analytical and cyberspace operations services to integrated U.S. government agency operations. Ardalyst personnel have decades of direct operations experience in full-scope Cyberspace Operations - at the Service, Joint and National Agency levels.

Are you an Ardalyst?

Ardalyst is a mashup of Ardent, meaning “passionate” and Catalyst, meaning “change agent.” To be an Ardalyst means to be passionate about creating and sustaining meaningful transformations.

Speak Your Mind – Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do and our belief in diversity of people supports our goal for diversity in thought. Ardalysts (that isn’t just what we call ourselves) come ready to contribute and find solutions.

Focus On Your Strengths – We invest in understanding the strengths and weaknesses of each employee so that you can shine at what YOU do best.

See Yourself Grow – Ardalysts have cited being encouraged to take educated risk, kick-start progress, and advance their skills as one of their favorite things about working at Ardalyst and we are determined to keep it that way.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to add to our dynamic team. In this role, you will be part of the engineering team responsible for designing, implementing, and securing Microsoft Cloud-based solutions based on Azure, Entra, M365, and more. Your primary responsibility is to work with customers to identify their cloud and cybersecurity needs, and rapidly iterate from concept, to requirements, to delivered solution. You fuse a keen sense of empathy for the customer’s challenges with your hands-on expertise with cloud and security solutions to delight the customer.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Identify Customer Requirements: Meet with customers to understand and capture their current challenges and opportunities.
• Develop Solutions: Architect and design solutions to meet customer needs, accounting for functional requirements, scalability, performance, cost, resilience, and security needs.
• Collaborate effectively: Leveraging the customers’ requirements; partner with sales, developers, engineering, and customer team members to solve issues and provide sustainable solutions.
• Drive tangible results: Estimate development costs and the delivery schedule, including identifying critical paths to ensure successful delivery under budget. Draft and refine systems design, architecture diagrams, design artifacts, and presentations to meet project requirements.
• Deliver Value: Through implementing prototype, concept, and initial solutions in cloud environments.

Required Skills

• 3+ Years experience building Azure-, Entra- and M365- based solutions in large scale enterprise and production environments.
• Secure and resilient system design.
• IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS service composition.
• Azure, Entra, Purview, and M365 service security and lockdown.
• Strong verbal and presentation skills.

Required Qualifications

• 8 years industry experience in cybersecurity, information technology, cloud, or related roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or other similar related field, or five additional years of equivalent experience.
• The customer has offices located in Charleston, SC and Suffolk, VA. Candidates must live in the greater Charleston, OR live in the greater Suffolk area, OR be willing to relocate to either area before starting OR be willing to travel there one week out of every month.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Popular Azure services and components such as KeyVault, LogicApps, NSGs, Event Hub, ExpressRoute, Defender, Kubernetes Sentinel, Log Analytics, SQL Database, Blob Storage, Functions, and the like
• Hands-on experience with Azure Stack HCI
• Sound understanding of network protocols/services and network infrastructures.
• Strong analytical skills, critical thinking skills and problem-solving skills.
• Capability to independently complete project tasks with minimal supervision.
• DevOps and DevSecOps focus with experience building and deploying infrastructure with automation like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, etc. with security features and secure system design built in.
• Production experience with automation and scripting using PowerShell; work with Terraform a plus.
• Self-motivated, highly organized and detail oriented with the ability to work independently, prioritize and multi-task.
• Domain-related certifications are a plus, such as from Microsoft, SANS, Offensive Security, ISC2, etc.
• Understanding of modern threat environments and attack types, as well as secure system design; hands-on experience with any of the following are a plus:
  • Security incident response, vulnerability assessment, or penetration testing
  • Threat modeling, threat analysis, and ATT&CK
• Writing and editing technical/functional requirements, design specs, and design documents.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• This is a remote role that requires travel to customer offices up to 35%

Benefits:

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Health, Dental, Vision and Life insurance
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability insurance
• Monetary assistance with training and certifications

Disclaimer

Ardalyst Defense, LLC is an EOE that empowers employees, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic—to meet and exceed customer expectations and thrive in a collaborative and dynamic work environment.