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Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business and industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to unknown threats, or running an entire security operations center, we help companies build cyber resilience and grow with confidence. We combine risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security, and managed services to rethink the entire security lifecycle.\nWe are seeking an Azure Cloud Infrastructure Security Engineer to join our Porto Cybersecurity CoE team. This role is based in Lisbon and will support the design, implementation and secure operation of Azure landing zones and the IaaS and PaaS services deployed within them.\nYou will work directly with cloud platform, infrastructure, networking and DevOps teams to implement cloud security controls, configure platform guardrails and validate the secure deployment of Azure resources. 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access controls, including role-based access control, managed identities, privileged access and least-privilege permissions\n\nImplement and troubleshoot network security controls, including network security groups, Azure Firewall, private endpoints, service endpoints, routing and network segmentation\n\nReview cloud architectures and validate security requirements through security assessments and architecture reviews\n\nContribute to the design, implementation and continuous improvement of secure Azure cloud architectures\n\nAssess cloud-native services and workloads to identify security risks and recommend mitigation measures\n\nSecure CI/CD pipelines by defining and promoting security controls across development, building, testing and deployment processes.\n\nCollaborate with infrastructure, development and DevOps teams to integrate security controls into cloud environments\n\nMonitor cloud security posture and support remediation activities identified through CSPM 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including:\noMicrosoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)\noMicrosoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)\noMicrosoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)\n\nAdditional Information\nLocation: Lisbon (hybrid). Minimum of 3 days per week onsite in Alfragide.\nTravel: Flexibility to travel within Europe for project activities and stakeholder engagements\nAbout Accenture\nAccenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us atwww.accenture.com\nDeclaração de Igualdade de Oportunidades de Emprego\nAcreditamos que ninguém deve ser discriminado por suas diferenças. Todas as decisões de contratação devem ser tomadas sem distinção de idade, raça, credo, cor, religião, sexo, nacionalidade, ascendência, deficiência, condição de veterano militar, orientação sexual, identidade ou expressão de gênero, informação genética, estado civil, cidadania ou qualquer outra condição protegida pela legislação aplicável. 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