Information Security: Cloud Security Specialist at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

To provide specialist advise and support that contributes to the effective management and control of secure IT access in alignment with identified and approved governance, through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed SOPs.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning, designing, and developing cloud-based applications. Managing cloud environments in accordance with security guidelines.
• Deploying and debugging cloud initiatives as needed in accordance with best practices throughout the development lifecycle.
• Educating teams on the implementation of cloud-based initiatives.
• Aiding in building and designing web services in the cloud, along with implementing the set-up of geographically redundant services. Orchestrating and automating cloud-based platforms throughout the project.
• Analysing customer needs and developing overall concept and design objectives. The developer must be able to create software in a variety of programming and for a variety of IT software applications.
• Providing enterprise-level technical support to customers using Cloud Platform products, solutions and APIs.
• Collaborating with internal support teams to improve cloud products.
• Identifying, troubleshooting, and documenting product bugs and feature requests, coordinating with internal support teams as well as customers to implement effective solutions.

Minimum Experience

• 2 - 3 years of working experience within a Cloud Security environment.
• Experience in hands-on CI/CD based development and CI/CD Toolsets (Chef, Git, Jenkins) in a cloud environment.
• Experience in hands on development with native cloud services across all major public service providers (e.g. AWS EC2, RDS, Lambda, AWS CLI, S3, Azure Key Vault, Azure Security Centre, Azure Active Directory, GCP Cloud Logging, GCP KMS).
• Experience in working with containers and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher).
• Experience in working with & implementing Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) & Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) systems.
• Experience with infrastructure and server theories, principles, and concepts; application infrastructure and standards; networking fundamentals; Windows; Physical Server architecture Virtualization Technologies and LAN/WAN/Firewall/VPN network technologies.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Information Technology and Computer Sciences
• Security Plus
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty
• Azure Fundamentals