Azure Security Engineer

Planet Technologies, the Nation’s leading Microsoft services provider to the public sector, is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our growing team as an Azure Security Engineer. In this role, you will be supporting impactful projects that make a difference for our country.

This Azure Security Engineer will have specific experience with Deploying Defender services, Azure Tenant Hardening, Managing Microsoft Defender tools, Implementing secure network architectures, configuring and enforcing compliance policies and audit controls as well as developing and managing IaC templates for consistent, automated, and secure Azure deployments.

Responsibilities

• In the role of Security Engineer, you will work with our enterprise customers to assess, envision, plan, design and oversee implementation of security and compliance capabilities and controls leveraging Microsoft services and industry cybersecurity practices.
• In this role, you will work with enterprise customers in a strategic fashion to modernize and transform cybersecurity in their organizations.
• Understands Customer/Partner Technical Environment
• Gathers customer/partner insights from a broad range of stakeholders as well as the main business sponsor to shape and form both the definition and ongoing execution of projects
• Works with customer/partner stakeholders (e.g., Security Team, Enterprise Architects, Development Team, Operations Team) and business sponsor to socialize both the business solution and the project approach to determine if changes are needed to the business solution.
• Contributes to Microsoft-centric operations and cadences to align with customer feedback
• Uses evidence-based approach to represent the customer/partner as a customer advocate and share insights with Product Engineering teams and the business with a view to improving Microsoft technologies, products, and offerings such that they can better meet customer/partner needs.
• Architecture Design and Deployment
• Leverages a structured approach to Architecture Projects using existing methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile, Iterative) that make use of existing reference architecture and established architectural styles and design patterns.
• Proposes and develops new solutions to scale across multiple customers/partners
• Defines and documents the architecture through an architecture description document, an architecture decisions log, and a requirements/constraints traceability matrix to communicate the value proposition of the business solution along with the project approach.
• Experience with any of the following:
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – (Microsoft Threat Protection)
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – (Microsoft Cloud App Security)
• Microsoft Defender for Endpoints – (Microsoft Defender ATP)
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud- (Azure Log Analytics)
• Microsoft Defender Application Guard – (Microsoft Application Guard)

Skills Required

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Leading internal technical communities and presenting on new technologies
• Proactively responding to internal and external technical communities
• Ability to identify, scope, and refer opportunities for additional sales for Planet provided services and offerings
• Participate in presales calls and activities
• Proactively help customers make more complex decisions around features and capabilities
• Help internal sales team provide solutions to customers requirements
• Ability to implement related technologies and understand their dependencies in complex enterprise environments
• Ability to proactively collaborate across internal, customer, and key partner teams
• Ability to lead and provide strategic vision to large technical teams on complex projects
• Provide leadership across practice areas
• Proactively provides process improvement or standardization on elements that will have broad impact
• Thought leader on solving problems in complex environments
• Effectively articulate escalations and communicate progress to stakeholders
• Has ownership stake in the successful technical delivery of complex projects in large enterprise environments
• Has ownership stake in the delivery of the scope while assisting in managing customer expectations
• Represent our company values each and every day
• Strong analytical, diagnostic, critical thinking and project management skills
• Positive, energetic personality, comfortable in front of groups/customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills