Azure Security Engineer Cheltenham / Remote

We are seeking an experienced Azure Security Engineer with deep expertise across Microsoft’s cloud security stack—including Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Purview, and Information Protection. The ideal candidate will combine strong technical engineering capabilities with proven technical leadership, playing a key role in shaping our cloud security posture, driving secure‑by‑design principles, and guiding both technical and non‑technical stakeholders. This role will be instrumental in designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise‑grade security controls within Azure, ensuring compliance, visibility, and protection across our cloud workloads and data estate.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Security Engineering

• Design, implement, and optimise security controls across Azure resources and services.
• Lead the deployment, configuration, and tuning of Microsoft Defender (Defender for Cloud, Endpoint, Identity, O365, Cloud Apps).
• Administer and enhance Microsoft Sentinel, including workbook creation, custom analytics rules, automation (SOAR), threat hunting, and incident workflows.
• Define and manage data classification, labelling, and lifecycle controls using Microsoft Purview and Information Protection capabilities.
• Integrate security tooling with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows to ensure secure development and deployment practices.

• Oversee advanced incident investigations, triage, and forensic analysis leveraging Sentinel and Defender signals.
• Develop and maintain playbooks, runbooks, and automated response workflows.
• Provide guidance to SOC teams on threat detection logic and response strategies.
• Ensure Azure environments align with internal security policies, industry standards, and regulatory obligations (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR).
• Lead cloud security assessments, gap analyses, and remediation activities.
• Support audit, compliance, and data governance initiatives with Purview insights.

• Serve as the subject matter expert for Azure security technologies and cloud protection strategies.
• Mentor junior engineers and influence cross‑functional teams with clear technical direction.
• Champion secure architecture principles and drive adoption of cloud security best practices.
• Collaborate with architects, infrastructure teams, DevOps, and business units to embed security at every stage of the technology lifecycle.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft certifications such as:

• SC-100: Cybersecurity Architect
• SC-200: Security Operations Analyst
• SC-300: Identity and Access Administrator
• AZ-500: Azure Security Engineer Associate

• Experience in enterprise‑scale environments.
• Background in threat intelligence, security architecture, or SOC leadership.

Competitive salary, bonus and options scheme. Opportunities for further training and certification. Collaborative and low bureaucracy work environment. Flexible working arrangements.

About Us

CloudSecure specialise in developing software and cloud infrastructure for customers with critical security and performance needs. Our culture is high‑agency, low‑bureaucracy and encourages creative thinking. We are intensely meritocratic - if you add value you will be appropriately remunerated and given increased responsibility. By extension we reward intellectual curiosity; if there’s a technology or role you’re interested in, we’ll help you get there. We’re growing fast but are founder owned so aren’t beholden to investor targets, financial hurdles or trend chasing. One of our directors sums CloudSecure up by saying "We build cool stuff, for cool customers." People are the lifeblood of our business so if what we’ve written resonates, we’d love to hear from you.