Cloud & AI Cyber Assurance Lead — Strategy & Compliance

MCS Group | Your Specialist Recruitment Consultancy; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

MCS Group | Your Specialist Recruitment Consultancy is partnering with a technology business to recruit a Cyber Assurance Lead - Cloud and AI. This role owns assurance across cloud infrastructure, internal systems and AI-enabled applications, shaping security strategy and embedding best practices across engineering, product, DevOps and IT teams.

You will set baselines for cloud and product environments, develop security tooling for the SDLC, and lead continuous monitoring, with ISO 27001 and

Qualifications

• Experience implementing and maturing security tooling, including cloud-native platforms such as Wiz or equivalent.
• Practical security knowledge across at least one major cloud provider (preferably AWS).
• Experience operating, auditing or developing ISO management systems, with governance, risk and compliance exposure.
• Experience delivering assurance through continuous monitoring or automated evidence.
• Working knowledge of NIST frameworks.
• Practical understanding of AI security frameworks, including OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS.
• SC clearance, or eligibility to obtain it.
• CISSP or CCSP certifications are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Help shape the security strategy and develop the security function's capabilities.
• Set security baselines across cloud infrastructure, internal systems and product environments.
• Develop and integrate security tooling throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Verify security controls through continuous monitoring, automated evidence and independent testing.
• Assess the effectiveness of security controls within AI-enabled applications.
• Support the maintenance and development of ISO 27001 and other compliance management systems.
• Develop AI risk assessments and security posture reporting.
• Work across engineering, product, DevOps and IT to embed security best practice.

Skills

Cloud security

Security tooling

Continuous monitoring

AI security

NIST frameworks

Governance, risk & compliance

SC clearance

Education

CISSP

CCSP

ISO 27001/42001 experience

Tools

Wiz

Job description

MCS Group | Your Specialist Recruitment Consultancy is partnering with a technology business to recruit a Cyber Assurance Lead - Cloud and AI. This role owns assurance across cloud infrastructure, internal systems and AI-enabled applications, shaping security strategy and embedding best practices across engineering, product, DevOps and IT teams.

You will set baselines for cloud and product environments, develop security tooling for the SDLC, and lead continuous monitoring, with ISO 27001 and