- Company Name
- CLS Group
- Job Title
- Vice President, Cloud Security
- Job Description
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Job title: Vice President, Cloud Security
Role Summary: Executive leader responsible for architecting, implementing, and overseeing cloud security strategy, operations, and compliance across the organization’s AWS and Azure environments. Serves as the subject‑matter expert, guiding cross‑functional teams on risk assessment, incident response, and continuous improvement of security controls.
Expectations:
- Lead and enhance the organization’s cloud security posture by integrating IT strategy with corporate objectives.
- Provide strategic guidance and hands‑on expertise to secure information technology initiatives.
- Ensure regulatory compliance (GDPR, SOC, NIST, ISO) through meticulous documentation, audit support, and evidence collection.
- Own the development, execution, and continuous refinement of incident response playbooks, detection rules, and threat‑hunting processes.
- Foster collaboration with cloud operations, infrastructure, product, and vendor teams to deliver secure, scalable architectures.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as SME for cloud security, advising on project design and architecture.
- Manage IDPS (Suricata/Snort) deployments, PCAP analysis, and optimization of detection/response workflows in cloud‑native and hybrid environments.
- Monitor, triage, and investigate SIEM and cloud‑native alerts; create and maintain detection rules and playbooks.
- Conduct root‑cause analysis, post‑incident reporting, and recommend operational improvements.
- Lead regulatory compliance efforts: prepare audit documentation, validate controls, and report findings.
- Operate and maintain SIEM, DLP, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, endpoint protection, and other security controls with a cloud focus.
- Perform IT security risk assessments for high‑impact projects and design mitigating controls.
- Resolve FRB and internal audit findings related to security monitoring and response.
- Manage relationships with third‑party security vendors and partners.
Required Skills:
- Hands‑on experience with intrusion detection, malware analysis, forensics, and incident response in cloud/hybrid settings.
- Deep knowledge of AWS and Azure, including IAM, VPC, Security Groups, and cloud‑native monitoring tools.
- Proficiency with IDPS (Suricata/Snort), PCAP analysis, and SIEM tuning.
- Expertise in SIEM, DLP, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, endpoint protection, firewalls, TCP/IP, IPS, proxies.
- Strong documentation, reporting, and communication skills for technical and business audiences.
- Excellent time management, organization, and collaborative leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and deliver security projects from concept to operation.
Required Education & Certifications:
- B.S. in Computer Science, Information Security, or related technology discipline.
- Professional certifications: CISSP, CISM, or equivalent; knowledge of AWS/Azure security certifications preferred.