Cybersecurity Analyst

Overview

In this role, you will assess platforms and cloud environments to identify security risks and strengthen the organisation’s security posture. You’ll focus on CSPM, security tooling, and secure-by-design practices, partnering with engineering, DevOps, and product teams. You’ll translate findings into practical remediation plans and help advance cloud and platform security capabilities. This hybrid position combines hands-on assessments with collaboration on secure architecture and reporting to diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Conduct security assessments of platforms, applications, and cloud environments to identify risks, misconfigurations, and control weaknesses
• Use CSPM, vulnerability management, and related security tools to continuously monitor cloud and platform security posture
• Review configurations across cloud services, infrastructure, identity, networking, containers, and platform components against security baselines and best practices
• Analyse findings from security tools and prioritise remediation based on risk, exploitability, and business impact
• Partner with engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and product teams to define practical remediation plans and track closure of identified issues
• Support secure design and architecture reviews for new and existing platforms
• Validate that security controls are implemented effectively and aligned with organisational policies, standards, and regulatory requirements
• Assist in developing and maintaining security assessment methodologies, procedures, standards, and reporting templates
• Prepare clear, concise reports and dashboards summarising risks, trends, exceptions, and remediation progress for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the organisation’s cloud and platform security capabilities, including automation opportunities and tool optimisation
• Stay current with emerging threats, cloud security risks, and evolving security tooling relevant to platform environments

Key requirements

• Experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, platform security, or risk assessment roles
• Hands-on experience performing technical security assessments across cloud or platform environments
• Strong understanding of cloud security concepts, including identity and access management, network security, logging and monitoring, encryption, secrets management, and workload protection
• Experience using CSPM tools and other security technologies such as vulnerability scanners, SIEM, CNAPP, or configuration assessment platforms

• collaboration with cross-functional teams
• ability to translate technical findings to non-technical stakeholders
• problem-solving and prioritisation
• CSPM
• vulnerability management
• security tooling (SIEM, CNAPP)

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