Cloud Security Architect: Threat Prevention & Compliance

Rhodes University; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhodes University is seeking a Cloud Security Specialist to safeguard our cloud infrastructure and data across environments in the Wes-Kaap region. The role requires threat analysis, risk assessments, and hands-on implementation of security controls using cloud-native and third-party tools.

You will collaborate with SOC teams and incident response processes to enhance defense and compliance. Applicants should hold AWS certifications (Security Specialty, Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect)

Qualifications

• Matric and a relevant technology or business-related diploma/degree.
• 3+ years of experience as a Cloud Security Analyst/Engineer.
• AWS Security Specialty, AWS Cloud Practitioner, and AWS Solutions Architect certifications.
• Experience with cloud security assessments, cloud-native security controls, risk assessment, web application firewalls, information gathering, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Conduct threat analysis on cloud environments.
• Use security tools to analyze events in production and non-production environments for threat mitigation and compliance.
• Perform risk assessments and test adherence to core security tenets for systems processing or storing valuable data.
• Maintain and update multi-cloud security standards assessments.
• Design security solutions addressing known vulnerabilities across cloud infrastructure, APIs, web apps, or other reachable systems.
• Define and implement cyber security threat use cases.
• Coordinate with SOC teams to provide guidance against malicious activity.
• Be a key resource during cyber incident response.
• Coordinate monitoring for breaches or intrusions and develop response/recovery strategies.

Skills

Critical thinking

Security research

Teamwork

Communication

IaC

Scripting

Education

Matric

Diploma or degree in technology or business

Tools

Web Application Firewall

Burp Suite

AWS CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

Rhodes University is seeking a Cloud Security Specialist to safeguard our cloud infrastructure and data across environments in the Wes-Kaap region. The role requires threat analysis, risk assessments, and hands-on implementation of security controls using cloud-native and third-party tools.

You will collaborate with SOC teams and incident response processes to enhance defense and compliance. Applicants should hold AWS certifications (Security Specialty, Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect)