emergiTEL is hiring a Cloud Security Analyst for our client in the financial services industry. This is a Contract role.

Compensation: $60 - $80/hour
Location: Hybrid

Job Description: -

• Implement, Operate and administer Wiz Advanced Cloud as the primary cloud security posture and vulnerability management platform, including policy tuning, coverage expansion, and integration with ticketing and reporting systems.
• Continuously monitor GCP environments for misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, exposed secrets, excessive permissions, and toxic combinations, and drive them to resolution.
• Triage and prioritize cloud findings based on exploitability and business impact, and integrate scoring into the enterprise vulnerability risk framework (WVRS) for unified reporting alongside application security findings.
• Partner with cloud platform, DevOps, and application engineering teams to remediate findings, providing clear guidance and technical context rather than just raw scan output.
• Maintain an accurate, continuously updated inventory of cloud assets, workloads, and identities to close visibility gaps and eliminate shadow infrastructure.
• Define and maintain secure configuration baselines and guardrails for GCP, working with Platform/Cloud Engineering to embed controls into infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Partner with Enterprise IAM to identify and reduce excessive cloud permissions, service account sprawl, and privilege escalation paths.
• Own the intake, tracking, and escalation process for cloud security findings, ensuring clear ownership and SLA-driven remediation across engineering teams.
• Perform ad hoc validation and risk reviews for high-risk changes, new cloud workloads, or emerging cloud threats.
• Produce clear, recurring reporting on cloud risk posture, remediation velocity, and trends for technology leadership and governance stakeholders.
• Stay current on cloud-native attack techniques, provider security capabilities, and evolving best practices, and bring recommendations back into the program.

Top Skills:

•  Hands-on GCP security experience,
•  Cloud IAM and privilege risk fluency,
•  Ability to drive vulnerability remediation with engineering teams,
•  IaC/CI-CD literacy (Terraform + pipelines),
•  Wiz Platform Administration Experience

Vacancy Status / Statut du poste
This is an active position currently open for hiring. 
Use of Artificial Intelligence / Utilisation de l'intelligence artificielle
No artificial intelligence (AI) is used in the screening or selection process. All applications are reviewed by our recruitment team. 
Equal Opportunity / Égalité des chances
emergiTEL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of background. Hiring decisions are based solely on skills, experience, and qualifications relevant to the role.