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# Cloud Security Consultant

- **Company:** TEKSYSTEMS INC.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Salary:** $145,600.0 - $187,200.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Software as a Service, Cloud Computing Security, Identity and Access Management
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careercircle.com/jobs/all/all/usa/dc/washington/b0b28417-b98d-4b0a-a2f3-9b804ce816c4

## About the Role

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

## Description

The SSPM Specialist maintains continuous visibility into SaaS security posture, builds and operationalizes detection logic aligned to defined configuration and governance standards, and partners closely with application and identity teams to drive effective remediation. This role plays a key part in improving SaaS security maturity and providing leadership with transparent, risk based posture reporting., Ensure critical enterprise SaaS platforms are securely configured and governed in alignment with CSA security standards.

Maintain continuous visibility into SaaS security posture and configuration across in scope applications.

Perform secure configuration monitoring of enterprise SaaS platforms to identify misconfigurations, excessive access, and control gaps.

Detect configuration, access, and permission issues that could lead to data exposure, identity compromise, or policy violations.

Build, maintain, and refine detection logic that enforces defined SaaS configuration and governance expectations.

Support the operationalization of SaaS posture monitoring capabilities through onboarding of new platforms and integration of posture data.

Partner with application owners, platform teams, and identity and access management teams to remediate SaaS posture risks.

Triage SaaS posture findings, assess risk and impact, and support prioritization of remediation activities.