Azure Public Cloud Senior Consultant

About the role and what you'll be doing:

Secure Architecture & Design (Primary Focus)

• Lead secure design workshops with customers, incorporating security and compliance requirements
• Design Azure architectures with security and hardening as foundational principles
• Implement Azure landing zones aligned with governance, identity, and security best practices
• Define and document security controls, guardrails, and baseline configurations
• Ensure designs align with customer regulatory and risk requirements (e.g., financial services, healthcare, government)

Implementation, Hardening & Delivery

• Build and configure Azure environments with a strong emphasis on:
  • Identity and access management
  • Network segmentation and perimeter security
  • Secure connectivity (VPN, ExpressRoute)
• Implement environment hardening for Azure resources and virtual machines
• Apply security baselines, policies, and configuration standards
• Support secure migrations and modernization of workloads into Azure
• Validate environments through testing, review, and remediation of security gaps

Security Governance & Operational Readiness

• Implement and manage Azure governance controls (management groups, policies)
• Configure and integrate Azure security and monitoring services
• Support customer security reviews, audits, and risk assessments
• Act as the technical security escalation point within assigned engagements
• Partner with customer security teams to ensure ongoing compliance and risk management

Technical Leadership & Consulting

• Serve as the senior technical lead for Azure delivery within the engagement
• Mentor and guide other consultants on secure Azure design and implementation
• Conduct peer reviews of designs and configurations with a security lens
• Contribute to internal standards, patterns, and reusable security assets

Required Qualifications:

Professional Experience

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, or security-focused engineering roles
• 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering Microsoft Azure solutions
• Demonstrated experience securing and hardening enterprise cloud environments
• Prior experience in consulting, professional services, or customer-facing delivery roles
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (Certification)

Core Azure & Security Skills

• Azure networking (VNets, VPN, ExpressRoute, peering, gateways)
• Azure identity and access management