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# Cloud Security SME

- **Company:** Hays plc
- **Location:** Leeds, UK
- **Salary:** £60,000.0 - £70,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cyber Security
- **Published:** May 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/jobad/gb77445b39d259c757bd7a7d8375b79af8

## About the Role

* Strategic or hands-on (config/engineering) security experience in cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP)
 * Experience adhering to cloud security best practice frameworks
 * Experience utilising cloud-native security tools
 * Demonstrable experience of mature cyber security practices - creating repeatable, well-documented cloud security processes and plans
 * Stakeholder engagement ability
 * Experience instrumentally maturing cloud security environments
 * Whilst having owned the cloud security parts of a cyber security strategy would be ideal, tangible experience making suggestions into cyber security strategies and the ability to articulate this would be suitable on top of a demonstrable cloud security technical foundation.

## Description

Hays' Cyber Practice have partnered with a reputable Yorkshire-based organisation on the search for a Cloud Security SME. This role will see you involved in both hands-on and strategic works, allowing you to configure and help integrate cloud security best practice into the overall cyber strategy, with the oversight of the head of cyber., * Assisting in the development of an enterprise-scale cloud security strategy and owning the journey

 * Working alongside cloud infrastructure colleagues and implementing security best practices
 * Utilising cloud security tools and implementing cloud security policies and procedures
 * Utilising and tweaking SecOps tools to provide accurate alerts and reporting on events pertaining to cloud security posture
 * Acting as a cloud security SME within the organisation
 * Developing KPIs and monitoring capabilities to assess the effectiveness of current-state cloud security policies, and work to improve on these outputs throughout the continual delivery of the strategy.
 * Ensuring that the policies and procedures you create are well documented and repeatable
 * Working with internal and external SecOps teams on cloud security incident response plans


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