Cloud Cyber Security Consultant

Sanderson Recruitment Plc

Cloud Cyber Security Consultant

London – Hybrid Working 2 days per week in the office

£80,000 – £120,000 + benefits

Fantastic new contract opportunity for an experienced Cloud Security Consultant with this market leading financial services business based in London. You will be joining the UK Information Security Secure Change Team providing Information Security Subject Matter Expertise to the businesses change portfolio. As Cloud Cyber Security Consultant, you will be an Information Security subject matter expert in multiple cloud technology areas such as M365, Azure (Identity, Security and Compliance), Defender, Azure DevOps, Azure IaaS, etc and will provide technical subject matter expertise to the businesses change portfolio.

Main responsibilities:

• Act as an InfoSec subject matter expert, primarily focussed on cloud security across the core cloud technology platforms.
• Assess whether the current (and proposed) configuration of these core cloud technologies meet the security requirements, regulatory requirements, and good industry practice.
• Define, document, and agree security improvements/enhanced configurations where these are necessary.
• Define, document, and agree security improvements/enhanced configurations as part of changes to the existing core technologies and the implementation of new capabilities, systems, and technologies.
• Represent Information Security with Business stakeholders as a trusted advisor, finding pragmatic and cost-effective security solutions that efficiently support customer needs.
• Act as a specialist owner of 1 or more of the team’s security processes, systems, or frameworks, maintaining specialist knowledge and continually evolving the process, system, or framework with reference to the global and local system & process owners, regulation & good practice.
• Provide specialist advice as part of structured risk & control assessments, for example external supplier due diligence.

Skills Required:

• Proven experience of working within a similar Cloud Security Consultant position ideally within a large financial services business.
• Information Security subject matter expert in multiple cloud technology areas such as M365, Azure (Identity, Security and Compliance), Defender, Azure DevOps, Azure IaaS, etc.
• Solid, practical, and demonstrable experience of information security (technical and non-technical aspects), ideally with an understanding of privacy.
• Able to influence decision making to surface and mitigate issues and risks across a wide range of stakeholders.
• Positive, collaborative and builds and maintains effective relationship with others.
• Pragmatic, and effectively balances risk and control requirements with commercial drivers.
• Ability to articulate and document security requirements and risks so that they are accurate, auditable, and understandable.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise tasks and projects effectively.

For any further queries regarding the role, please contact Danny Palmer at (see below)