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Cloud Security SME

HAYS Specialist Recruitment
Leeds, United Kingdom
Last month
£55,000 – £70,000 pa

Salary

£55,000 – £70,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
22 Apr 2026 (Last month)

Benefits

15% bonus 10% joint contributory pension 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays Holiday buy and sell scheme Share save scheme
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Cloud Security SME
£55,000 - £70,000 per annum + 15% Bonus
Leeds (Hybrid - 2 days onsite)

About the Role

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.

Key Responsibilities

  • 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


What We're Looking For

  • 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.


Package, Benefits and What's in it for you

  • Up to £70,000 per annum dependent on experience
  • 15% bonus based on job and company performance
  • 10% joint contributory pension
  • 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Holiday buy and sell scheme - buy up to 10 days.
  • Share save scheme
  • Other benefits, such as career development opportunities, qualifications etc.

What to do now

If you're interested in this role, apply with an up-to-date copy of your CV.

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