Engagement Lead- Azure- Remote (Anywhere in the U.S.)

GuidePoint Security is seeking an experienced Engagement Lead to oversee client relationships and drive successful delivery of cybersecurity consulting engagements. In this senior role, you will serve as the primary point of contact for enterprise clients, ensuring projects are executed with precision, transparency, and measurable impact. The Engagement Lead will balance strategic oversight with handson management, guiding crossfunctional teams, aligning solutions to client objectives, and fostering longterm partnerships. This position is ideal for a professional who thrives in a boutique consulting environment, where agility, personalized service, and trusted advisory are central to delivering differentiated value.

• Technical Oversight & Delivery: Proven ability to oversee technical delivery teams, ensuring quality, consistency, and alignment with client objectives.
• Client Management: Skilled at building and maintaining executive-level relationships, translating technical outcomes into business value.
• Escalation Management: Experienced in managing and resolving escalations, balancing client satisfaction with project scope and delivery realities.
• Account Executive Partnership: Ability to collaborate with Account Executives to identify growth opportunities, shape proposals, and support pre-sales activities.
• Leadership & Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present to executives, lead workshops, and mentor technical teams.
• Architectural Leadership: Lead the design, implementation, and lifecycle management of practice services.
• Pre-Sales & Delivery Support: Contribute to the creation of Statements of Work (SOWs), Requests for Proposal (RFPs), and pre-sales solution design in partnership with Account Executives and delivery teams.
• Modern Workplace Strategy: Define and implement strategies for secure, efficient, and user-friendly adoption of services across enterprise environments.
• Security & Compliance: Establish and enforce enterprise-wide security and compliance frameworks, including data protection, insider risk management, and data loss prevention (DLP).
• Zero Trust Enablement: Apply Zero Trust principles across cloud and hybrid environments, leveraging identity, access, and threat protection controls such as MFA, conditional access, and continuous verification.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, and infrastructure teams to align cloud security architectures with regulatory, operational, and business requirements.
• Integration Expertise: Design and implement integrations between cloud platforms, SaaS applications, security tools, and endpoint management solutions to ensure cohesive protection.
• Automation & Optimization: Develop automation scripts, workflows, and orchestration processes to streamline administration, monitoring, and operational efficiency.
• Technical Mentorship: Provide leadership, mentoring, and oversight to engineers and delivery teams, fostering knowledge transfer and consistent execution across regions.
• Resiliency & Monitoring: Establish high-availability, disaster recovery, and monitoring strategies to ensure resilient and continuously protected cloud services.
• Governance & Adoption: Define governance models, lifecycle policies, and adoption frameworks to maximize business value and ensure sustainable security practices.
• Thought Leadership: Act as a subject matter expert for cloud security initiatives, migrations, and transformations, contributing to client roadmaps, executive briefings, and industry discussions.

• 10+ years of IT experience with at least 6+ years focused on Microsoft Azure architecture, administration, and security.
• Proven track record leading enterprise-scale Azure deployments, migrations, and modernization projects across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS workloads.
• Deep knowledge of Azure services, including Entra ID, Virtual Networks, Storage, Compute, App Services, and Kubernetes (AKS).
• Strong understanding of Azure security and compliance capabilities, such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, Key Vault, RBAC, Conditional Access, and Zero Trust principles.
• Hands-on experience with automation and scripting, including PowerShell, KQL, ARM/Bicep, Terraform, and Microsoft Graph API.
• Solid understanding of cloud computing concepts, including multi-cloud and hybrid architectures, virtualization, containers, infrastructure security, data security, encryption, management plane, business continuity, and identity entitlement/access management.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Defender suite and Microsoft Sentinel, with experience designing and operationalizing SIEM/SOAR solutions for Azure environments.
• Experience with lifecycle management of Azure resources, including provisioning, governance, cost optimization, and decommissioning.
• Minimum 2 years of experience with Azure security suite capabilities, such as Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, WAF, APIM, Secure Landing Zones, Azure Policy, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and related governance tools.
• Minimum 2 years of experience with Microsoft 365 and Entra ID security integration, including Conditional Access, MFA, Identity Governance, and cross-platform compliance alignment.

• Microsoft Certified: Microsoft 365 Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert, Security Administrator Associate, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert.