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Cloud Security Consultant

Employer
Hays.
Location
United Kingdom,United Kingdom,United Kingdom, London,Birmingham,Manchester
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
21 Jan 2021

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Sector
Consultancy
Job Role
Software Developer
Job Type
Permanent
UK-wide travel required
Flexible home-working

Job Description

The core tasks, duties, and responsibilities of the cloud security consultant are listed in the job description example below:
  • Being responsible for the overall implementation of security cloud architecture in an organization.
  • Assist in improving and developing new designs and security strategies across all types of cloud-based applications (including infrastructure, platform, and software as a service.)
  • Responsible for the thorough documentations of implementations, via technical documentation and run-books
  • Responsible for input and feedback on security architectures
  • Apply understanding and experience with systems automation platforms and technologies
  • Partake in efforts that shape the organization's security policies and standards for use in cloud environments
  • Interpret security and technical requirements into business requirements and communicate security risks to relevant stakeholders ranging from business leaders to consultants
  • Direct and influence multi-disciplinary teams in implementing and operating Cyber Security controls
  • Collaborate with application developers and database administrators to deliver creative solutions to difficult technology challenges and business requirements
  • Provide subject matter expertise on information security architecture and systems engineering to other IT and business teams
  • Execute security architectures for cloud cloud/hybrid systems
  • Responsible for automating security controls, data and processes to provide improved metrics and operational support
  • Employ cloud-based APIs when suitable to write network/system level tools for safeguarding cloud environments
  • Stay abreast of emerging security threats, vulnerabilities and controls
  • Spot and execute new security technologies and best practices into the company's Cloud offerings.


Experience & Attributes
  • 3-5 years Cloud deployment experience from within the core Azure, AWS and GCP Cloud platforms with bias towards Security in the cloud platforms
  • Multiple Customer Cloud Deployment experience
  • Working on complex Cloud projects, and carrying out large scale workload migrations with a focus on security elements
  • UK focused, across a variety of industry sectors
  • AWS Certified Security Consultant
  • Google Certified Security Consultant
  • DevSecOps project experience/awareness
  • Experience with automation & orchestration around security
  • Experience with AWS/ GCP native security tools
  • Demonstrable custom tool development and contribution to open source communities - optional
  • Experience securing public facing web service
  • Use of automation to solve complex problems at scale
  • Solid understanding of addressing security in VMs, containers and serverless
  • Be comfortable building security dashboards
  • Strong familiarity with Linux and Windows operating systems and cloud provider ecosystems like Amazon AWS
  • Practical knowledge of AWS foundation services related to compute, network, storage, content delivery, administration and security, deployment and management, automation technologies
  • Robust micro services programming (AWS Lambda, Docker, etc.)
  • Extensive experience architecting, designing, and programming applications and ample experience in high level programming languages such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Visual Basic
  • Capability architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
  • DevOps know-how building and deploying infrastructure with cloud deployment, build and test automation technologies like ansible, chef, puppet, docker, Jenkins, etc.
  • Familiarity using AWS Cloud Services (EC2, DynamoDB, API Gateway, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Route 53, etc.)
  • Understanding of complex enterprise environments and current technology areas like cloud and mobility
  • Certification: It is important that applicants for the cloud security consultant position have CISSP or equivalent security-related industry certifications and AWS Associate or higher Certification

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