Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
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Senior Cloud Security Engineer – Cleared, Polygraph
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full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Ft. Meade • Maryland • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
AzureCloudCyber SecurityTypeScript
About the role
- Architect, deploy, and sustain cloud security solutions aligned with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), Zero Trust, and TIC 3.0 security principles.
- Configure, manage, and optimize Microsoft Sentinel for enterprise-wide security operations, including incident detection, investigation, and response.
- Implement and maintain Azure Monitoring solutions, enabling proactive identification of performance, security, and compliance risks.
- Detect, analyze, and investigate threats across cloud and hybrid environments; support incident triage and response activities.
- Develop custom KQL (Kusto Query Language) queries to create reports, dashboards, and alerts that enhance visibility into security posture.
- Collaborate with cross-functional IT, DevSecOps, and mission teams to strengthen security monitoring and governance.
- Document cloud security architectures, standard operating procedures, detection use cases, and runbooks.
- Provide subject matter expertise in advanced cloud security features (e.g., Defender for Cloud, Entra ID Conditional Access, Identity Protection) to elevate enterprise resilience.
Requirements
- An active TS/SCI with polygraph.
- Minimum of five (5) years of Tier II or three (3) years of Tier III cloud security or cybersecurity operations experience.
- Proven ability to design, deploy, and sustain enterprise cloud security solutions in Azure environments.
- Expertise with Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Monitoring, and security threat detection/analysis.
- Strong knowledge of KQL to develop security reports, dashboards, and detection rules.
- Solid understanding of Zero Trust security concepts, cloud security baselines, and federal cybersecurity compliance requirements.
- Strong troubleshooting, diagnostic, and investigative skills across security monitoring platforms.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator Associate, Microsoft Security Operations Analyst (SC-200), Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500), or equivalent certifications.
- Experience with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Entra Identity Protection, and enhanced security features.
- Familiarity with security automation and orchestration (SOAR) workflows in Sentinel.
- Experience supporting large-scale federal security operations centers (SOCs) or cybersecurity modernization initiatives.
- Experience with Microsoft Entra Permissions Management, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and Identity Governance.
- Knowledge of integrating IAM with Power Platform and enterprise applications.
- Familiarity with AOAI embedded features and Copilot capabilities for identity workflows.
- Experience with large-scale enterprise migrations involving IAM modernization.
ATS Keywords
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Hard skills
cloud security solutionsMicrosoft SentinelAzure MonitoringKusto Query Language (KQL)security threat detectionZero Trust security conceptssecurity automationincident detectionincident responsecloud security baselines
Soft skills
troubleshootingdiagnostic skillsinvestigative skillscommunication skillsdocumentation skills
Certifications
Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator AssociateMicrosoft Security Operations Analyst (SC-200)Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500)
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