Our client is looking for a Cloud Security Consultant to join a high-performing Qualified Services team delivering enterprise-scale cloud security transformations across Australia and New Zealand.
This is a hands-on consulting role in which you'll work directly with enterprise and government customers, helping them design, deploy and operationalise industry-leading cloud security solutions. You'll partner with architects, DevOps teams and technical leaders to embed security into modern cloud environments while acting as a trusted technical advisor throughout the engagement.
If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, working with cutting-edge cloud security technology and making a real impact for customers, this is the role for you.
What you'll be doing
- Lead customer workshops to gather requirements and define solution scope.
- Design High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLDs and LLDs) for cloud security deployments.
- Deploy and configure Cortex Cloud / Prisma Cloud across AWS, Azure and GCP environments.
- Implement Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP).
- Integrate security into DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines using modern GitOps practises.
- Work closely with customer engineering and DevOps teams to implement security guardrails and shift-left practises.
- Migrate security policies from legacy and competing cloud security platforms.
- Produce operational documentation, runbooks and as-built documentation.
- Deliver knowledge-transfer sessions to customer operations teams.
- Collaborate with Project Managers to ensure successful project delivery and customer outcomes.
What we're looking for Cloud & Infrastructure
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience securing Kubernetes environments including EKS, AKS or GKE.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals including routing, firewalls and IPSEC VPNs.
- Experience designing secure cloud architectures.
DevSecOps
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles.
- Experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines.
- GitOps experience with tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
- Terraform expertise.
- Python and/or Bash scripting.
About you You are someone who enjoys working directly with customers and can comfortably move between technical implementation and executive conversations.
You'll have
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- A consultative approach to solving customer challenges.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- The ability to simplify complex technical concepts.
- A passion for delivering exceptional customer outcomes.
- The ability to thrive across multiple enterprise engagements.
Highly desirable
- Australian Citizen with an active NV1 (or higher) security clearance.
Also encouraged to apply Candidates with strong commercial cloud security consulting experience who are eligible and willing to obtain Australian Government security clearance.
Why apply?
- Work with some of Australia's largest enterprise and government organisations.
- Deliver cutting-edge cloud security projects.
- Join a collaborative, highly technical consulting team.
- Exposure to complex multi-cloud environments.
- Opportunities for ongoing professional development and certification.
- Competitive salary and excellent career growth opportunities.
📌 Cloud Security Consultant (Cortex Cloud) – 12+ months + $1000-$1250/day (Sydney)
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