Cloud Security Specialist SAAS | IAAS / DevOps

An opportunity is available for this leading Technology and Software business who are looking for a Cloud Security Specialist to join their team. You will be responsible for designing, securing their Cloud estate in order to assess effectiveness. You will a senior, hands on member of the team, sitting within the DevOps teams, providing practical cloud expertise. You will be installing and configuring cloud native and third party security tools. Core Responsibilities: *Design secure cloud infrastructures and delivery systems with objectives like speed, scalability, robustness, zero-trust, automation and supportability at the core. *Ensure that our Cloud estate (Azure, AWS, SalesForce, etc) is configured securely according to industry standards, as well as our own. *Provide expert Cloud security advice to DevOPS and Software Engineering colleagues. *Do research and consultation with colleagues, as well training (including on the job) to maintain own's awareness of trends in Cloud security threats, attacks, technologies, controls and regulations. *Monitor our Cloud estate, react to, investigate and respond to all real or perceived information security and cyber related events, issues, incidents, threat and attacks. - co-working with Security Analysts. Experience Required: *Advanced understanding and demonstrable hands on experience with Cloud environments, systems and tools (e.g. Terraform) and with fundamental Internet and security technologies (routing & switching, DNS, FW, IDS, Anomaly detection), in an enterprise or service provider environment. Good experience securing and monitoring Cloud (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS/hybrid, containers, serverless, etc) environments (applications, infrastructure, operations, processes, etc). - minimum 3 (three) years practical cloud security experience required. *Good understanding of common information security management standards, frameworks, and laws / regulations: e.g. BSIMM, ISO 27001, GDPR, etc. *Scripting and automation: Advanced ability to read and understand code, understand logs and alerts, to use specialist tools (Cloud native and 3rd party), as well as programming / scripting languages (Python, Shell, PowerShell, AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, PowerApps), to automate tasks, to enable security at speed and scale. This is the chance to join a reputable Technology, cloud business with a great culture and chance to shape their software security. If you are interested in finding out more please get in touch.