Cloud Security & Cyber Risk Consultant
About The Position
The Cloud Security & Cyber Risk Consultant plays a dual role supporting global teams by combining deep cloud security expertise with broader IT risk and cybersecurity consulting responsibilities. This position is designed for candidates with strong cloud security foundations, with the opportunity to grow into additional cyber risk, investigation, and governance capabilities through on-the-job learning and team support. Why This Role Matters Primary Focus – Cloud Security Expertise: Drives the operation, protection, and enhancement of cloud environments, with a strong emphasis on AWS and Azure security controls and best practices. Secondary Focus – Cybersecurity & Cyber Operations: Contributes to cyber defense operations such as incident response, threat analysis, and continuous security monitoring in a blue team environment. Prior experience is a plus but not required, with training and mentorship provided. Balances hands-on cloud security operations with advisory and project-based work across global teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years of relevant experience, or 9+ years of equivalent hands-on experience in Information Technology.
- Strong foundation in cloud security, including AWS and/or Azure security best practices, architecture, or operations.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts such as threat detection, incident response, or risk management.
- Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native security tools and architectures in AWS and Azure.
- Interest in expanding into broader cybersecurity, IT risk, and consulting domains (training provided).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to act quickly and drive issues to resolution.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to build relationships with global stakeholders and external agencies.
Responsibilities
- Operate, monitor, and enhance cloud security tools and controls across AWS and Azure environments.
- Govern cloud security standards, architectures, and best practices.
- Partner with cloud engineering teams to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks in cloud platforms.
- Lead cloud-focused incident response and security event analysis.
- Brings broad cloud expertise to help build and mature cyber operations practices for cloud environments
- Develops and documents playbooks, procedures, and best practices to improve team response to cloud-based incidents
- Enables and upskills the broader team to more effectively detect, triage, and respond to cloud security events
- Support larger, cross-environment incident response efforts spanning both cloud and on-premises systems.
- Contributes to investigations, including digital forensics and incident analysis, using established processes and tools.
Benefits
- Training and mentorship provided.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
