Senior Azure Engineer

About Coalfire

Coalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving our clients’ hardest cybersecurity challenges. We work at the cutting edge of technology to advise, assess, automate, and ultimately help companies navigate the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. We are headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with offices across the U.S. and U.K., and we support clients around the world.

But that’s not who we are – that’s just what we do.

We are thought leaders, consultants, and cybersecurity experts, but above all else, we are a team of passionate problem-solvers who are hungry to learn, grow, and make a difference.

We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to play a central role in the design, and implementation of scalable, secure, and high-performing systems—ensuring our clients’ are successful. If you’re driven by a desire to innovate, excel at operational excellence, and thrive in a collaborative environment, come be part of a team committed to making the world a safer place.

• Become a member of a highly-collaborative engineering team offering a unique blend of engineering solutions.
• Serve as the cloud SME to clients within design, architecture, and deployment engagements in the AWS, Azure, or GCP space using automated orchestration and configuration management techniques.
• Mentor junior team members by reviewing their work, sharing best practices, and guiding them through troubleshooting and operational standards.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of internal tools, scripts, and processes that enhance service delivery, repeatability, and client outcomes.
• Perform as a partner with leading Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and enterprises to meet security goals and pave the way for digital transformation and modernization.
• Design and implement security tooling solutions such as Tenable, Trend Micro, Aqua Sec, Microsoft Defender, Burp Suite, and others.
• Engage in developing client cloud and security strategies, vision-state architectures, roadmaps, and planning activities.
• Engage with clients to perform cloud configuration and maturity reviews.
• Coordinate with clients and team members to identify the right balance of defense-in-depth techniques to translate customer’s goals into a secure and effective solution.
• Engage in designing and implementing secure and compliant enterprise servers, network infrastructure, boundary protection, and cloud architectures using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Work across a myriad of technology stacks in the leading cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP, researching how to understand and utilize native services in deployments.
• Provide support to the security assessment and authorization process.
• Authoring and peer review of detailed design documentation, including security documentation and inclusive of vendor best practices.

• BS or above in related Information Technology field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of directly relevant systems engineering and architecture experience including requirements definition, architecture development, development of use cases and stories, and systems integration & test.
• 5+ years of experience supporting cloud architecture, design, implementation, operations and automation in AWS, Azure or GCP.
• 5+ years of experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and orchestration/automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Strong experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP platform capabilities and services (Cloud Architect, Cloud Dev Ops Engineer, or Cloud Security Engineer).
• Experience working within technical teams of 3+ individuals in an Agile environment.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective documentation skills, including technical diagrams and written descriptions.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team with a professional attitude and demeanor.
• Critical thinking, and ability to balance security requirements with mission needs.
• Ability to work quickly, efficiently, and accurately in a dynamic and fluid environment.

• Previous experience supporting clients from within a professional services organization.
• Projec…