Senior Security Specialist - Cloud
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JobgetherCybersecurity
CanadaFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSGCPKubernetesMicrosoft AzureTerraformAnsibleCloudFormation
Requirements
- Strong professional experience managing and securing public cloud platforms, with hands-on expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Demonstrated experience building systems or platforms within one or more major public cloud environments.
- Strong understanding of modern cloud-centric architectures, DevOps principles, and cloud security practices.
- Experience scripting and automating operational or security activities using cloud APIs, CLIs, or similar tools.
- Intermediate experience with orchestration and configuration management technologies such as Ansible or Puppet, as well as infrastructure-as-code tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Jenkins and an understanding of secure software delivery practices.
- Knowledge of PaaS/SaaS operating environments, including SLAs, load balancing, high availability, operating system patching, networking, and security management.
- Strong technical understanding of Linux and Windows platforms, as well as a broad range of hardware and software technologies.
- 3+ years of cybersecurity experience, ideally including network- and application-layer penetration testing or offensive security activities.
- Experience operating Kubernetes environments and understanding multi-tenancy and its security implications is an advantage.
- Relevant certifications in information security, AWS, Azure, or GCP are considered a plus.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, and strategic-thinking capabilities, with a high level of attention to detail.
- Ability to communicate complex security concepts and technical attack paths effectively to executives, business stakeholders, and broader audiences.
Responsibilities
- Assess and improve the security posture of public cloud environments across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
- Participate hands-on in Red Team and Purple Team exercises within mature production environments, identifying attack paths, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for defensive improvement.
- Develop, refine, and maintain offensive security tradecraft, automation, and tooling to support cloud security assessments and exercises.
- Build strong partnerships with Cloud Security, Cloud Operations, Threat Hunting, Threat Intelligence, SOC/Incident Response, and AI/ML analytics teams to drive practical cybersecurity improvements.
- Use cloud APIs and command-line interfaces to automate security operations, assessments, and other technical workflows.
- Collaborate with cloud operations teams, internal customers, security operations, business stakeholders, and management during information security incidents and when communicating emerging threats and trends.
- Analyze complex security and vulnerability events and provide actionable recommendations to improve cloud resilience.
- Communicate sophisticated technical concepts, attack paths, and security risks in a clear and accessible way for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Contribute to security initiatives across cloud architecture, DevOps practices, infrastructure, applications, operating systems, networking, and platform security.
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