Information Security Officer (Cloud Security)

Contract Role: Information Security Officer (Cloud Security) 

Contract Location: London/Belfast (Hybrid)

Contract Duration: 6 months initially (with potential extension)

Contract Start Date: Immediate

Contract Classification: Inside IR35

Daily Rate breakdown

Traditional Daily Rate: £450

Agreed Contract Rate (ACR): £346.95

Equivalent Annual Salary: £90,206 + £10,887 holiday pay

Payroll provider: Rockford Payroll  Info for Contingent Workers - Rockford Pay

Overview

Deloitte is supporting a Tier 1 Global Bank in hiring experienced Information Security Officers to lead cloud security governance, security architecture and cyber risk management across large-scale technology platforms. This is a senior security role responsible for driving secure-by-design principles, identifying cyber risks and ensuring compliance with enterprise security policies.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Information Security activities across supported technology and infrastructure functions.

• Identify opportunities to automate and standardise security controls.

• Identify, investigate and remediate security vulnerabilities across infrastructure and applications.

• Analyse source code to identify and mitigate security weaknesses.

• Review automated security testing results and prioritise remediation based on risk.

• Perform manual and automated security testing where required.

• Conduct Information Security risk assessments.

• Analyse root causes of vulnerabilities and recommend corrective actions.

• Work with engineering and business teams to deliver secure technical solutions.

• Contribute to enterprise security architecture across major technology programmes.

• Ensure cloud architectures align with corporate security policies and industry best practices.

• Assess security risks and define compensating controls where required.

• Translate business requirements into secure technical solutions.

• Recommend secure infrastructure platforms and cloud architectures.

• Influence security strategy and architectural decisions.

• Provide technical leadership across complex cloud security initiatives.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Minimum 6 years’ IT experience, including at least 4 years in Cyber Security/Information Security across cloud and on-premises environments.

• Minimum 2 years securing AWS and/or GCP cloud environments.

• Experience conducting Information Security Risk Assessments and Security Governance.

• Strong understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework and Google Cloud Security Command Center.

• Strong knowledge of AWS and GCP IAM security models.

• In-depth knowledge of cloud infrastructure including VPC, EC2, S3, Cloud Storage and Compute Engine.

• Familiarity with NIST, ISO 27001 and CSA STAR compliance frameworks.

• Experience engaging with Information Security, Risk, Control & Compliance, Architecture and Project teams.

• Demonstrated expertise in Threat Modelling methodologies such as STRIDE, PASTA or MITRE ATT&CK/ATLAS.

• Strong understanding of authentication, authorisation, encryption, logging & monitoring, infrastructure security and network segmentation.

• Ability to design and review secure technical architectures.

• Experience reviewing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.

• Strong understanding of SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.

• Hands-on Python scripting experience.

Qualifications:

• Associate or Professional AWS or GCP Cloud Certification (mandatory).

• Associate or Professional Cyber Security Certification (mandatory).

• Excellent communication and influencing skills.

• Strong stakeholder and relationship management.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capability.

• Self-motivated with the ability to lead complex security initiatives.

• Strong technical documentation and presentation skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security or related discipline (or equivalent experience).

• CISSP, CISM or CCSP highly desirable.

• AWS Solutions Architect or Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer certifications are advantageous.