Cloud Security Assurance Specialist

Cloud Security Assurance Specialist
Fully Remote
Initial contract until July 2022
Pay rate up to £500 per day via Umbrella inside IR35

Job Description:

• The primary purpose of this position is to drive cloud security compliance by ensuring policies are appropriately deployed, enforced and tracked.
• Initially focused within Microsoft Azure, you will work with stakeholders across the organisation to remediate any identified risks.
• Review existing Azure security policy exemptions and determine as to whether those exemptions are still required.
• Remediate policy exemptions which aren't correctly captured within the designated system.
• Provide policy compliance metrics to Cyber Risk & Assurance Leads.
• Ensure resources are tagged in-line with tagging strategy.
• In conjunction with GRC, ensure risks are captured within appropriate system and any remediation plans are documented.
• Provide assurance on existing & new blueprints.
• Conduct foundational cloud security assessments, identifying, documenting and escalating any gaps.
• Review cloud security scores and advise resource owners as to how those scores can be increased.
• Provide cloud security consultancy for projects on an ad-hoc basis.

• Experience with Azure Cloud Security policies
• Experienced in all cyber security domains
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of cyber security principles, IT security controls, and related technologies and products
• Prior experience in conducting cyber Security risk assessments
• Stakeholder/internal business management experience
• Strong verbal/written communication in English, with the ability to effectively interact with professionals at all levels of responsibility and authority
• Work with virtual teams located in different countries around the world, aligning and adapting different work, culture and communication styles
• Exposure to any GRC technologies to conduct cyber risk management
• CCSP and AZ-500 is desired but not mandatory