Senior Azure Cloud Security Engineer | Critical Infrastructure

Senior Azure Cloud Security Engineer | Critical Infrastructure

📍 Zürich Region, Switzerland (Hybrid)

Are you an experienced cybersecurity professional who wants to secure a highly available Azure platform supporting some of Switzerland’s most critical operations?

We are supporting a prestigious Swiss organisation in the search for a Senior Azure Security Engineer to join its advanced Cloud Platform function.

This is a newly created position offering the opportunity to shape cloud security from within the engineering environment - not simply review it from the outside. You will work closely with cloud, platform and cybersecurity specialists to embed security into architecture, automation, delivery and operational processes.

🚀 Your Responsibilities

· Engineer and implement security requirements across a complex Microsoft Azure environment

· Identify, evaluate and help remediate cybersecurity risks affecting the cloud platform

· Design preventive security controls based on recognised industry practices

· Support cloud projects by establishing protection requirements and designing practical security solutions

· Embed security earlier within cloud engineering and delivery processes

· Develop and continuously improve cloud security concepts, standards and technical guidelines

· Review cloud architectures, configurations and services from a security perspective

· Contribute to infrastructure automation and secure Infrastructure as Code

· Support the secure use of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS services

· Document solutions and transfer knowledge across technical teams

· Act as a trusted security partner to cloud engineers, architects and operational stakeholders

🧩 Your Background

· Degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline

· Several years of professional experience in cybersecurity, ideally with a strong cloud-security focus

· Hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Azure and its native security capabilities

· Understanding of security across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS environments

· Experience identifying technical risks and implementing effective security controls

· Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks and standards such as NIST and ISO/IEC 27001

· Strong understanding of secure architecture, identity, access control and cloud governance

· Fluent English communication skills and a good command of German (to at least B1 level)

⭐ Particularly Valuable Experience

Experience in one or more of the following areas would be highly attractive:

· Microsft Defender for Cloud or Microsoft Defender XDR

· Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access and Zero Trust

· Identity and Access Management

· Privileged Identity or Access Management

· Azure Kubernetes Service

· Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

· Git, GitHub and GitHub Actions

· CI/CD security and DevSecOps

· Security auditing, penetration testing or offensive security

· Threat modelling and secure architecture reviews

· Critical infrastructure or another highly regulated enterprise environment

🤝 Your Personality

Technical capability is important, but personality and teamwork matter just as much.

We are looking for someone who is:

· Collaborative, approachable and genuinely team-oriented

· Proactive and hands-on, while remaining humble

· Comfortable working across different technical disciplines

· Able to communicate security risks in clear and practical language

· Capable of influencing teams without becoming an unnecessary blocker

· Analytical and comfortable navigating complex technical dependencies

· Motivated to learn and contribute within an agile environment

This role will suit someone who sees cybersecurity as an engineering partnership - not simply an audit or compliance function.

💡 Why Consider This Opportunity?

· Join a highly respected Swiss organisation operating an exceptionally important national environment

· Take on a newly created role with the opportunity to make a visible impact

· Help shape the continued development of a mature Azure cloud-security platform

· Work with modern technology in a complex, resilient and highly available IT environment

· Collaborate with experienced cloud, infrastructure and cybersecurity specialists

· Benefit from strong support for certifications, training and professional development

· Attractive pension scheme and progressive social benefits

· 25–30 days of annual leave, depending on the applicable employment conditions

· Additional company-wide paid leave between Christmas and New Year

· Hybrid model offering up to two home-office days per week

· Modern offices situated immediately beside excellent public-transport connections