Security Consultant Cloud Security Specialist

Job Description

IntroductionInformation and Data are some of the most important organizational assets in today s businesses. As a Security Consultant, you will be a key advisor for IBM s clients, analyzing business requirements to design and implement the best security solutions for their needs. You will apply your technical skills to find the balance between enabling and securing the client s organization with the cognitive solutions that are making IBM the fastest growing enterprise security business in the world.Your Role and Responsibilities The cloud security specialist performs various functions, including being responsible for the overall maintenance of cloud security controls for the client. They help to improve and develop new designs and security strategies across all types of cloud-based applications (including infrastructure, platform, data, identity and software as a service.) The core tasks, duties, and responsibilities of the cloud security specialist are listed in the job description example below:
• Responsible for the thorough documentations of implementations, via technical documentation and run-books
• Responsible for input and feedback on security architectures
• Apply adept understanding and experience with systems automation platforms and technologies
• Partake in efforts that shape the organization s security policies and standards for use in cloud environments
• Interpret security and technical requirements into business requirements and communicate security risks to relevant stakeholders
• Review and recommend implementing and operating Cyber Security controls
• Collaborate with multiple stake holders and conduct Security Risk Assessments on Cloud environments
• Provide subject matter expertise on information security processes to systems engineering and other concerned teams
• Strategize Security architectures for cloud cloud/hybrid systems
• Responsible for automating security controls, data and processes to provide improved metrics and operational support
• Employ cloud-based native controls and tools for safeguarding cloud environments
• Stay abreast of emerging security threats, vulnerabilities and controls
• Spot and execute new security technologies and best practices into the existing Cloud practices.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Experience in configuring Azure Security services such as (Azure Key Vault, Azure Information Protection, Azure Security Center, Web Application Firewall, Azure Advisor)
• Experience in configuring GCP services such as (Google Cloud Identity, Google Cloud EKM, Google Cloud Armor, Stackdriver Monitoring,
• Responsible for the thorough documentations of implementations, via technical documentation and run-books
• Partake in efforts that shape the organization s security policies and standards for use in cloud environments Azure and GCP
• Experience in configuring Azure Security services such as (Azure Key Vault, Azure Information Protection, Azure Security Center, Web Application Firewall, Azure Advisor)
• Experience in configuring AWS Security services such as AWS Security Hub, AWS Guard Duty , AWS Inspector, AWS IAM)
• Partake in efforts that shape the organization s security policies and standards for use in cloud environments
• Interpret security and technical requirements into business requirements and communicate security risks to relevant stakeholders
• Review and recommend implementing and operating Cyber Security controls
• Collaborate with multiple stake holders and conduct Security Risk Assessments on Cloud environments AWS & Azure
• Provide subject matter expertise on information security processes to systems engineering and other concerned teams
• Responsible for automating security controls, data and processes to provide improved metrics and operational support
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Strong familiarity with cloud provider ecosystems like Amazon AWS, MS Azure, GCP , IBM Cloud
• Practical knowledge (desired) of Cloud Service providers foundation services related to compute, network, storage, content delivery, administration and security, deployment and management, automation technologies
• Understanding of micro services programming (AWS Lambda, Docker, etc.)
• Capability architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
• Familiarity using native services on AWS such as (EC2, DynamoDB, API Gateway, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, Route 53, etc.)
• GCP (Google Cloud Identity, Google Cloud EKM, Google Cloud Armor, Stackdriver Monitoring, Google Kubernetes Engine(GKE)
• Azure (Azure Key Vault, Azure Information Protection, Azure Security Center, Web Application Firewall, etc)
• Understanding of complex enterprise environments and current technology areas like cloud and mobility
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