Security Engineer, Engagement Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Supervise and mentor technical delivery teams to guarantee quality, consistency, and alignment with client goals

• Develop and sustain executive-level relationships with clients, translating technical results into business benefits

• Handle and resolve client and project escalations

• Partner with Account Executives to uncover growth opportunities, shape proposals, and facilitate pre-sales efforts

• Deliver presentations to executives, conduct workshops, and provide mentorship to technical teams

• Spearhead the design, implementation, and lifecycle management of practice services

• Draft Statements of Work, Requests for Proposal, and pre-sales solution designs

• Define and execute secure modern workplace adoption strategies within enterprise environments

• Establish and uphold security and compliance frameworks, covering data protection, insider risk management, and DLP

• Implement Zero Trust principles by utilizing MFA, conditional access, and continuous verification

• Align cloud security architectures with regulatory, operational, and business needs

• Design and implement integrations across cloud platforms, SaaS applications, security tools, and endpoint management solutions

• Create automation scripts, workflows, and orchestration processes

• Provide leadership, mentorship, and oversight to engineers and delivery teams

• Establish strategies for high availability, disaster recovery, and monitoring

• Define governance models, lifecycle policies, and adoption frameworks

• Act as a cloud security subject matter expert for initiatives, migrations, transformations, roadmaps, executive briefings, and industry discussions

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree is required

• Minimum of 2 years of experience with Azure security suite capabilities, including Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, WAF, APIM, Secure Landing Zones, Azure Policy, PIM, and related governance tools

• At least 2 years of experience in Microsoft 365 and Entra ID security integration, encompassing Conditional Access, MFA, Identity Governance, and cross-platform compliance alignment

• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale Azure deployments, migrations, and modernization projects across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS workloads

• Extensive knowledge of Azure services, such as Entra ID, Virtual Networks, Storage, Compute, App Services, and AKS

• Strong comprehension of Azure security and compliance capabilities, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, Key Vault, RBAC, Conditional Access, and Zero Trust principles

• Practical experience with PowerShell, KQL, ARM/Bicep, Terraform, and Microsoft Graph API

• Understanding of multi-cloud and hybrid architectures, virtualization, containers, infrastructure security, data security, encryption, management plane, business continuity, and identity entitlement/access management

• Familiarity with Microsoft Defender suite and Microsoft Sentinel

• Experience in designing and operationalizing SIEM/SOAR solutions for Azure environments

• Experience in Azure resource lifecycle management, including provisioning, governance, cost optimization, and decommissioning

• Capability to utilize emerging technologies, including AI tools

• Willingness to travel up to 10%

• Sedentary work environment

• Significant wrist, hand, and/or finger movement for a minimum of 8 hours daily

• Close visual acuity required for computer terminal viewing and/or extensive reading for at least 8 hours daily

• Preferred: Microsoft 365 Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert, Security Administrator Associate, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert

• Preferred: A minimum of 10 years of IT experience, with at least 6 years concentrated on Microsoft Azure architecture, administration, and security

🏝️ Benefits

• Primarily remote workforce (U.S. based only)

• Options for Group Medical Insurance, including Zero Deductible PPO Plan or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA

• GuidePoint covers 90% of employee PPO premiums and 70% of family PPO premiums

• GuidePoint pays 100% of employee HDHP premiums and 75% of family HDHP premiums

• Annual HSA contribution of $850 per employee or $1,750 per family

• Group Dental Insurance

• GuidePoint pays 100% of employee dental premiums and 75% of family dental premiums

• 12 corporate holidays

• Flexible Time Off (FTO) program

• Healthy allowance for mobile phone and home internet

• Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment

• Pet Benefit Option