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The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise across major cloud platforms-particularly AWS and Microsoft Azure-to secure, govern, architect, and optimize enterprise cloud environments.\nThe role requires strong cloud security and cloud enablement capabilities, including solution architecture, governance, cybersecurity, risk management, and secure-by-design implementation. Experience in AI security and DevSecOps practices will be considered an advantage. The resource should be able to provide both strategic advisory services and hands-on delivery within large-scale enterprise environments.\nCore Technical & Delivery Requirements\n1. Cloud Expertise\nDeep hands-on expertise across Cloud platforms, including but not limited to Amazon web services, Microsoft Azure.\nStrong understanding of how Cloud technologies integrate across identity, collaboration, security, infrastructure, and data platforms.\nAbility to architect, optimize, and implement solutions leveraging the Cloud capabilities to support business, operational, compliance, and security objectives.\nProven experience in cloud configuration, governance, administration, security hardening, and adoption enablement.\n2. Security-Driven Delivery, Governance & Cybersecurity\nStrong understanding of enterprise security principles, cybersecurity frameworks, governance models, and secure-by-design methodologies.\nAbility to embed security controls, compliance requirements, identity governance, risk mitigation, and operational security into all solution designs.\nExperience in driving security maturity improvements across cloud, identity, collaboration, infrastructure, endpoint security, and data protection.\nAbility to identify vulnerabilities, security gaps, compliance concerns, and remediation opportunities.\n3. AI Security\nSecuring AI/ML systems and pipelines\nFamiliarity with security frameworks such OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications, Mitre ATLAS\nManaging risks such as:\nModel poisoning\nData leakage\nPrompt injection\nImplementing governance and controls for AI usage\nExperience with cloud AI services such as Amazon Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry\n4. DevSecOps\nIntegrate security into CI/CD pipelines\nUse tooling such as:\nSAST / DAST / SCA\nContainer security solutions\nInfrastructure-as-Code (IaC) scanning\nPromote shift-left security practices\n5. Solution Design, Architecture & Implementation\nDemonstrated ability to assess business requirements, design scalable enterprise solutions, and lead end-to-end implementation.\nCapability to translate functional and technical requirements into secure, sustainable, and fit-for-purpose architectures.\nExperience across the full solution lifecycle including discovery, planning, architecture, build, testing, deployment, transition, support, optimization, and continuous improvement.\nAbility to provide both strategic solutioning and hands-on implementation support.\n6. Cyber Risk Management\nDemonstrated experience in cyber risk identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, and reporting across enterprise environments.\nAbility to evaluate security threats, vulnerabilities, operational risks, and business impacts across cloud, infrastructure, endpoints, identity, and data environments.\nExperience implementing risk-based security controls, remediation strategies, and continuous monitoring processes.\nStrong understanding of cyber risk frameworks, governance models, compliance obligations, and audit readiness.\nAbility to align cyber risk management practices with broader enterprise risk, business continuity, disaster recovery, and security strategies.\nExperience in reducing organizational exposure through proactive risk assessments, threat prioritization, and security improvement initiatives.\nProfessional Competencies & Ways of Working\n7. Methodical & Structured Approach\nDemonstrated ability to work in a disciplined, structured, and methodical manner.\nStrong planning, prioritization, documentation, governance, and execution capabilities.\nAbility to consistently follow delivery frameworks, security standards, and quality assurance processes.\n8. Attention to Detail\nHigh degree of precision, diligence, and accuracy across analysis, architecture, implementation, validation, and documentation.\nAbility to proactively identify risks, dependencies, security concerns, configuration issues, compliance gaps, and operational impacts.\nStrong quality focus ensuring alignment with technical, regulatory, security, and business requirements.\n9. Problem Solving & Strategic Thinking\nAbility to assess complex technical, operational, and cyber-related challenges and provide practical, scalable, and secure recommendations.\nStrong analytical and troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, cloud, identity, security, and risk domains.\nAbility to align technical and security decisions with long-term business resilience and operational strategy.\n10. Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement\nStrong communication and stakeholder engagement skills across business, architecture, operations, security, compliance, and risk teams.\nAbility to facilitate workshops, gather requirements, provide advisory guidance, and drive alignment across multiple workstreams.\nExperience working within enterprise, cross-functional, and governance-heavy environments.\n11. Documentation, Governance & Knowledge Transfer\nAbility to produce high-quality architecture documents, implementation plans, risk registers, security documentation, operational runbooks, support documentation, and governance artefacts.\nStrong documentation discipline and attention to detail.\nCommitment to knowledge transfer, handover, operational sustainability, and support readiness.\n12. Proven Experience & Certifications\nResources must demonstrate proven experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud, AI, endpoint security, cyber risk management, and infrastructure transformation initiatives.\nRelevant certifications in A mazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Security, Cybersecurity, Risk Management, AI, or Enterprise Architecture will be considered advantageous.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6312,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cloud Security","Cybersecurity","Security Compliance","Managed IT Services (MSP)"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-06T03:03:26Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":82,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.825,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":70,"reasons":["seen:4","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":91596,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/netsurit-cloud-security-specialist-consultant","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/netsurit-cloud-security-specialist-consultant.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-11T01:33:39Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2353,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2647,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2364599},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2364599"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnetsurit-cloud-security-specialist-consultant"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnetsurit-cloud-security-specialist-consultant"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnetsurit-cloud-security-specialist-consultant"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/netsurit-cloud-security-specialist-consultant\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnetsurit-cloud-security-specialist-consultant"}]}