About this opportunity
Apex Systems lists this Cloud Security Engineer opportunity in bethesda, Maryland. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Cloud Security & Governance Consulting
Duration: 6 month contract-to-hire, potential conversion salary range ~120-140K
Hourly Rate: ~$55-65/hr
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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
Employer Overview
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.
Benefits Overview
Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection.
We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure.
Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA.
Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.
Everforth Apex is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at (email protected) or 804‑ . (Do not submit resumes or solicit consultants to this email address). UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine‑Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex.
Contact Information
NYSE: EFOR
4400 Cox Road
Suite 200
Glen Allen, Virginia 23060
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Everforth Apex Systems is part of the Commercial Segment of Everforth, Inc.
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Worksite address
bethesda, MD, 20811, US
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