Cloud Security Manager

Sopra Steria; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 63,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Cloud Security Manager to lead the Security Operations Administration Team. This role focuses on cloud security, requiring extensive experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP. Key responsibilities include designing IT Security processes, collaborating with teams, and ensuring efficiency through data-driven insights. The position offers hybrid working with a competitive salary of up to £75,000, alongside a generous benefits package including a car allowance and flexible perks.

Benefits

£5,400 car allowance

25 days annual leave

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Generous flexible benefits fund

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in cybersecurity with a focus on cloud security.
• Hands-on experience securing AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Good understanding of cloud architecture and security frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and implementation of IT Security processes.
• Act as SOC liaison and escalation point for security changes.
• Define, monitor, and report on KPIs for process efficiency.
• Collaborate with teams to embed security in cloud services.
• Manage SLAs for solutions and drive improvement initiatives.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Cloud security

AWS

Azure

GCP

Communication skills

Team leadership

Education

CISSP

CCSP

AWS Security Specialty

GCP Cloud Security Engineer

Job description

Lead cloud security operations and shape the future of secure, scalable services across a transforming IT estate.

We are seeking a Cloud Security Manager to lead the Security Operations Administration Team and oversee the performance, improvement, and delivery of key Cloud Security processes and value streams. Reporting to the Head of the Service Management Office, this new role will ensure alignment with strategic goals, drive operational efficiency, and support the transformation of the IT estate, including new Security Management services and a move towards Cloud and DevOps environments.

This role will be hybrid working with 2 days a week on site.

What you will be doing:

• Own the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of IT Security and Access Management processes, ensuring alignment with Security Architecture and JSP guidance.
• Act as SOC liaison and escalation point, review policies, approve use cases and security-related IT changes, and ensure processes and tooling comply with standards.
• Define, monitor, and report on KPIs, using data-driven insights to improve process efficiency and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with SOC, AMO, Product Managers, MOD security representatives, and internal teams, embedding security in cloud services and incorporating customer feedback.
• Establish and maintain SLAs for new solutions, manage process issues, and support major incident resolution with Product Managers.
• Lead the Access Management and Service Operations Administration teams, manage resource allocation, and drive continual improvement initiatives across processes.

What you will bring:

• Extensive experience in cybersecurity, with a strong focus on cloud security.
• Hands‑on experience securing AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, AWS Security Specialty, or GCP Cloud Security Engineer.
• Good understanding of cloud architecture, security frameworks, and ISO 27001 standards.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and collaborate across all organisational levels.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex security concepts clearly.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

• Employment type: Full-time, permanent.
• Location: Hybrid working, likely 2 days a week in the office.
• Security Clearance level: SC.
• Internal Recruiter: Olly Walker.
• Salary: Up to £75,000
• Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Our Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions that bring clients enduring business value across the UK's Public and Private sectors. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported, delivering exceptional rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.