Senior Security Engineer – Cloud Security, Detection

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $140k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

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☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Fortellar

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Fortellar is a strategic technology and cybersecurity services firm that helps organizations launch, scale, and secure digital products and operations. It provides cybersecurity advisory and engineering, enterprise data security and privacy, cloud strategy and modernization, AI-enabled governance and automation, and product-led delivery including AI-powered rapid prototyping, site reliability, and product management services. Fortellar embeds security and AI into every engagement to drive measurable business outcomes for regulated enterprises and growth-stage companies.

📋 Description

• Design, deploy, and operate cloud security posture, data protection, and detection and response capabilities for clients • Lead large-scale, multi-workstream security remediation engagements • Close major pools of open cloud security findings and transition detection and data security capabilities from incumbent vendors to Microsoft platforms • Assign owners and closure dates to cloud findings and review standing exemptions • Eliminate anonymous and public access from internet-facing cloud resources • Rotate and remove embedded secrets and disable shared-key access across storage accounts • Establish private link connectivity, network rules, network security group coverage, and managed identity standards • Route diagnostic and platform logging into Microsoft Sentinel while managing ingestion scope and cost • Implement landing-zone guardrails as policy-as-code and review attack paths monthly • Triage and close high-severity security incidents with documented disposition and evidence • Author and publish incident response plans, severity matrices, escalation paths, and incident definitions • Complete mail-flow, quarantine, and anti-impersonation configuration • Facilitate cross-functional response during critical incidents • Define monitoring coverage and out-of-hours escalation paths, establish threat hunting, and facilitate tabletop exercises • Build and tune Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules, watchlists, workbooks, data connectors, and detection coverage • Evaluate managed detection sourcing and transition detection platforms while operating incumbent services in parallel • Design and deploy automated and agentic response playbooks with scoped credentials and human approval for production containment • Reduce alert volume and mean time to resolution through tuning, automation, and false-positive suppression • Evaluate emerging tooling and AI-driven detection and response capabilities • Design and operate pilot rings and staged rollouts for disruptive changes • Prepare, submit, and present change records with risk, blast radius, validation steps, and backout plans • Execute changes during scheduled maintenance windows, including evenings and weekends when necessary • Halt or defer unsafe rollouts and communicate schedule impacts to engagement leads and clients • Represent Fortellar credibly before client technical staff and executives, in person and virtually • Travel 10%–20% to client sites

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security or a related field • Preferred certifications: AZ-500, SC-200, SC-100, CCSP or CISSP • 8+ years in infrastructure or security engineering, including 5+ years securing Azure environments • 4+ years building and tuning Microsoft Sentinel detections using KQL, including Defender XDR and Defender for Cloud • Hands-on incident response experience, including leading response to critical incidents • Experience with policy-as-code using Azure Policy, Terraform or Bicep • Experience with Microsoft Purview and security automation using Logic Apps or Sentinel playbooks • 3+ years in a client-facing consulting role, presenting to technical and executive stakeholders • Track record of leading high-risk changes through formal change management using pilots, staged rollouts and rollback plans • Must currently live in and be authorized to work in the United States • Applications must be submitted from within the U.S.

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