Cloud Computing Specialist (Cybersecurity Advisor)

Here's a brief overview of the tasks and responsibilities you'll have :
• Provide cloud security expertise during solution design, architecture reviews, project delivery, and technology change initiatives;
• Evaluate cloud architectures and services based on security requirements, approved models, and risk appetite;
• Recommend appropriate security controls for identity and access management, networking, data protection, encryption, key and secret management, logging, monitoring, backups, and resiliency;
• Support threat modeling and cloud risk assessments by translating identified risks into accurate and enforceable security controls;
• Document security recommendations and decisions, residual risks, exceptions, and required corrective actions;
• Promote security-by-design and least privilege principles for cloud solutions and services;
• Contribute to the implementation and continuous improvement of cloud security posture management and workload protection capabilities;
• Review cloud configurations, security findings, proofs of control, and deviations from approved baselines;
• Validate the effectiveness of preventive, detective, and remedial controls and identify misconfigurations, excessive permissions, exposed services, and inadequate security settings;
• Work with environment owners to prioritize corrective actions based on risk exposure, operability, business impact, root causes, and compensating controls;
• Develop and maintain relevant metrics on cloud security posture, control coverage, exceptions, and remediation progress;
• Assess identity and access management controls, including privileged access, service and workload identities, role assignments, and segregation of duties;
• Advise teams on secure authentication, authorization, conditional access, federation and privileged access management mechanisms;
• Support requirements for data classification and protection, encryption, key and certificate lifecycle, protection of secrets, and secure data retention and transfer;
• Review network segmentation, connectivity, inbound and outbound flow controls, resource exposure to unauthorized external networks, and secure administrative access mechanisms;
• Guide teams on securing virtual machines, managed services, databases, storage, serverless services, containers, Kubernetes, and integration platforms;
• Integrate security requirements into Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices and continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, in collaboration with relevant teams;
• Automate the validation of configurations, policies, and secrets to detect security deviations before deployment;
• Contribute to the implementation of repeatable safeguards, Policy as Code controls, secure templates, and security controls built into deployment processes;
• Analyze findings from infrastructure and vulnerability analysis tools, cloud security services, and code security tools;
• Reduce reliance on manual controls and configuration creep through automated, repeatable security practices;
• Verify security controls for containerized and Kubernetes workloads, including node access, identities, group and namespace isolation, network policies, image integrity, secrets, admission controls, and runtime protection;
• Define and maintain secure baselines for containers, registries, platforms, and cloud workloads;
• Lead vulnerability management and remediation of managed platform workloads, images, hosts, and components;
• Define cloud security logging, alerting, monitoring, and telemetry requirements;
• Improve detection coverage and operational efficiency of security alerts in collaboration with relevant stakeholders;
• Participate in vulnerability assessments, investigations, and incidents by validating findings, assessing their severity, analyzing root causes, and recommending corrective controls;
• Integrate lessons learned from findings and incidents into standards, baselines, guardrails, and future solution reviews;
• Support risk and control assessments, audits, and evidence reviews of compliance in cloud security;
• Interpret security policies, standards, frameworks and regulatory requirements in the context of cloud services and delivery models;
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of standards, guidelines, control objectives and reference models in cloud security;
• Review waiver and exception requests, document risks and compensating controls, and follow up on remediation commitments;
• Clearly communicate security risks and recommendations to technical stakeholders, risk managers, and management.

The profile we are looking for is as follows:
• Have at least 10 years of hands-on experience in information security, with a specialization in cloud security, cloud architecture, or cloud operations;
• Have an excellent knowledge of the architecture and security of Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS);
• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) security (an asset);
• Master cloud identity and access management (IAM), privileged access management, networking, data protection, encryption, key and secret management, and logging, monitoring, and resiliency;
• Experience evaluating cloud-native services, hybrid environments, containers, Kubernetes, and platform services;
• Understand security concepts related to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and the Shift Left approach in CI/CD pipelines, including Terraform, CloudFormation, Policy as Code, security controls, and automated configuration validation;
• Demonstrate experience with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection (CWP), vulnerability management, secure configuration assessment, and remediation follow-up solutions;
• Possess a good knowledge of security architecture, security controls, threat modeling, risk assessment, and secure design patterns;
• Knowledge of recognized practices and frameworks, including CIS Benchmarks, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-53, NIST SP 800-190, CSA Cloud Controls Matrix, and OWASP recommendations;
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze security findings, distinguish significant risks from low-value items or false positives, and recommend controls commensurate with the level of risk;
• Have a working knowledge of scripting or query languages used for security log analysis and automation (an asset).