Germany
WorkMotion
AJAT GmbH
Senior Cloud Security Engineer (m/f/d) – Azure & AWS
Germany
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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About the opportunity
Senior Cloud Security Engineer (m/f/d) – Azure & AWS
Shape secure cloud environments with us
Have you secured Azure and AWS environments yourself, practically implemented Zero Trust principles, and do you work securely with Microsoft Intune and PowerShell? Do you want to take on technical responsibility and contribute your knowledge to a team?
Then we want to get to know you.
Your Application
AJAT GmbH · Cologne · Full-time · Permanent · On-site
How You Work
You take responsibility and address risks or open questions early on. You document your work, share knowledge, and constructively receive technical feedback.
When making changes, you consider security, operational capability, and the people who will work with the solution afterward. Even under time pressure, you remain structured and coordinate reliably with others.
Your Application
Apply directly through this advertisement with your resume and a brief overview of two relevant projects – preferably one with Azure and one with AWS. In each case, describe your own role and the security measures you implemented.
Also, please let us know your potential start date. A detailed cover letter is not required.
We look forward to getting to know you and your practical experience.
Your Qualifications
!!!!! GERMAN MINIMUM C1 !!!
You meet one of the following two criteria:
- A completed degree in Computer Science, IT Security, or a comparable field, along with more than five years of relevant professional experience.
- A completed IT vocational training, for example as an IT specialist for system integration, along with at least eight years of relevant professional experience.
Additionally, you bring
- Very good, practically proven knowledge in Azure and AWS. You have managed and secured productive environments yourself and can explain your own contribution based on concrete projects.
- Solid experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Intune, and PowerShell.
- A sound understanding of identity and access management, network security, logging, and the protection of sensitive data.
- Experience in planning, testing, implementing, and, if necessary, rolling back security changes in a controlled manner.
- Very good German language skills at at least a C1 level, as you will conduct technical customer discussions, coordinate decisions within the team, and create documentation in German.
- The ability to commence the role on-site in Cologne at the agreed-upon start date.
- The authorization to undertake the advertised employment in Germany at the start of employment.
AJAT is an IT company based in Cologne with a focus on IT services, system engineering, and cybersecurity. For our client projects, we are looking for an experienced individual who understands security requirements, implements them technically, and documents results in a comprehensible manner.
Your Responsibilities
- Secure Azure and AWS: You analyze existing cloud environments, identify security risks, and implement appropriate measures for identities, permissions, networks, workloads, and data.
- Protect identities and privileged access: You develop comprehensible authorization concepts and implement them using, for example, Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management, as well as AWS IAM and roles.
- Implement Zero Trust in practice: You combine the verification of identities and device states with minimally required permissions and clearly defined access rules.
- Secure endpoints with Microsoft Intune: You configure security and compliance policies, analyze errors, and introduce changes in a controlled manner.
- Automate with PowerShell: You develop maintainable scripts for checks, configurations, and recurring tasks – with secure authentication, error handling, and comprehensible logging.
- Process security findings: You evaluate misconfigurations and anomalies, prioritize measures, and verify their effectiveness.
- Collaborate with customers and the team: You explain technical decisions clearly, coordinate changes, and create documentation that others can reliably work with.
We Appreciate This Additionally
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, for example Terraform or Bicep.
- Experience with cloud security platforms and the analysis of security alerts.
- Experience in customer projects at an IT service provider.
- Current Microsoft or AWS certifications as supplementary proof of qualification.
What to expect at AJAT
- Technical responsibility in cloud and security projects.
- Collaboration with a team of IT and security specialists.
- Direct exchange with customers and the opportunity to help shape technical decisions.
- Room to build reusable security standards, automations, and documentation.
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