[Hiring] Cloud Security Specialist / Consultant @Netsurit

Role Description

Netsurit is seeking a contractor to fulfil a Cloud Security Specialist/Consultant role for one of our clients. 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.

The role requires strong cloud security and cloud enablement capabilities, including:

• Solution architecture
• Governance
• Cybersecurity
• Risk management
• 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.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on expertise across cloud platforms, including but not limited to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
• Strong understanding of how cloud technologies integrate across identity, collaboration, security, infrastructure, and data platforms.
• Proven experience in cloud configuration, governance, administration, security hardening, and adoption enablement.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security principles, cybersecurity frameworks, governance models, and secure-by-design methodologies.
• Experience in driving security maturity improvements across cloud, identity, collaboration, infrastructure, endpoint security, and data protection.
• Experience with cloud AI services such as Amazon Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry.
• Demonstrated ability to assess business requirements, design scalable enterprise solutions, and lead end-to-end implementation.
• Demonstrated experience in cyber risk identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, and reporting across enterprise environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills across business, architecture, operations, security, compliance, and risk teams.
• Resources must demonstrate proven experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud, AI, endpoint security, cyber risk management, and infrastructure transformation initiatives.

Requirements

• Ability to architect, optimize, and implement solutions leveraging cloud capabilities to support business, operational, compliance, and security objectives.
• Ability to embed security controls, compliance requirements, identity governance, risk mitigation, and operational security into all solution designs.
• Ability to identify vulnerabilities, security gaps, compliance concerns, and remediation opportunities.
• Familiarity with security frameworks such as OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications and Mitre ATLAS.
• Experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines using tooling such as SAST, DAST, and container security solutions.
• Ability to provide both strategic solutioning and hands-on implementation support.
• Experience implementing risk-based security controls, remediation strategies, and continuous monitoring processes.
• Ability to align cyber risk management practices with broader enterprise risk, business continuity, disaster recovery, and security strategies.
• Strong planning, prioritization, documentation, governance, and execution capabilities.
• High degree of precision, diligence, and accuracy across analysis, architecture, implementation, validation, and documentation.
• Ability to proactively identify risks, dependencies, security concerns, configuration issues, compliance gaps, and operational impacts.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, cloud, identity, security, and risk domains.
• Ability to facilitate workshops, gather requirements, provide advisory guidance, and drive alignment across multiple workstreams.
• Ability to produce high-quality architecture documents, implementation plans, risk registers, security documentation, operational runbooks, support documentation, and governance artifacts.

Benefits

• Maximum budget R120 000 per month.
• Remote work opportunity.