Job#: 3037104

Job Description:

Cloud Security & Governance Consulting

6 month contract, possible conversion but not guaranteed

~$60/hr

Primary Purpose:

We are looking for Cloud Security & Governance consulting support to help strengthen Azure security, governance, and compliance readiness as more workloads move into Azure.

This resource or partner engagement should help ensure the environment remains secure, governed, audit-ready, and aligned to cloud best practices as migration and modernization continue.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with Azure Policy design, review, and implementation
• Support Defender for Cloud rollout and recommendation review
• Review Entra access, privileged roles, and identity governance controls
• Support secure configuration review across Azure subscriptions
• Assist with logging, monitoring, and security visibility standards
• Support compliance evidence gathering and audit readiness
• Help establish post-migration security validation process
• Identify security gaps and prioritize remediation recommendations
• Support governance model for subscriptions, tagging, access, and policy enforcement
• Provide recommendations for scalable cloud security operations

Required Skills:

• Azure security and governance experience
• Defender for Cloud experience
• Azure Policy experience
• Entra ID security and access governance experience
• Cloud logging, monitoring, and security baseline experience
• Experience with secure configuration reviews
• Experience supporting compliance or audit readiness
• Ability to provide clear remediation recommendations and documentation

Preferred Skills:

• SOC 2 readiness experience
• Healthcare, PBM, or regulated industry experience
• Zscaler or zero-trust access experience
• Microsoft Sentinel exposure
• Experience building cloud governance frameworks

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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