← Back to job listings
CC
Cloud Security & Encryption Specialist
CCDS · Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia
About The Role
Role Purpose
Govern and improve the security posture of cloud environments and encryption controls, ensuring secure storage, processing, transmission, and monitoring of entity data.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor cloud environments for compliance with approved security policies, standards, and architecture requirements.
- Review the security posture of compute, storage, database, platform, and supporting cloud services.
- Monitor cloud-security tools and dashboards, investigate suspicious activity, and coordinate response with cybersecurity teams.
- Review CSPM findings, misconfigurations, exposed services, policy violations, and unauthorized deployments or Shadow IT.
- Assess third-party cloud services and integrations and track remediation of cloud-security findings through closure.
- Define and review encryption requirements for sensitive data at rest, in transit, and during processing.
- Support governance of cryptographic controls, keys, certificates, and secure integrations in line with Ministry requirements.
- Maintain cloud asset visibility, operational reports, risk status, and remediation accountability.
Technical and Professional Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
- At least 8 years of relevant cloud security, security architecture, or encryption experience, as specified in the workforce table.
- Strong cloud-security knowledge across compute, storage, databases, platform services, IAM, logging, monitoring, network controls, and third-party integrations.
- Hands-on experience with CSPM and cloud-native security monitoring tools.
- Strong knowledge of data encryption at rest and in transit, cryptographic controls, key and certificate management, and secure cloud architecture.
- Knowledge of NCA requirements, Zero Trust, least privilege, and cloud risk-management practices.
Personal Requirements
- Strong risk judgment and ownership of remediation follow-through.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and cross-functional coordination skills.
- Clear technical documentation and stakeholder communication.
- Proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable working across cloud, infrastructure, SOC, IAM, and architecture teams.
Professional Certifications
Preferred: CCSP, CISSP, SABSA, TOGAF, GIAC GCSA, or equivalent. A major cloud-platform security certification is also highly relevant.
Application Note
Candidates should clearly state their nationality, years of relevant experience, current location, notice period, and valid professional certifications in their application. Shortlisted candidates may be asked to provide supporting documents and participate in technical interviews.
Similar roles you might like
See all →B
Senior Oracle Fusion Enterprise Contracts
bTranz
Salary not disclosedPosted today
1K
SAP Specialist
1687 KBR Arabia Limited
Salary not disclosedPosted today
T
Service Delivery Analyst
TAWANTECH
Salary not disclosedPosted today
T
Expert Integration Engineer
TAWANTECH
Salary not disclosedPosted today
T
Agile Coach
TAWANTECH
Salary not disclosedPosted today
H
Program Controls Specialist II - Saudi National Only
Honeywell
Salary not disclosedPosted today
H
Sr Program Controls Specialist - Saudi National Only
Honeywell
Salary not disclosedPosted today
DT
Senior Data Center & Microsoft 365 Engineer (3-Month Project)- Riyadh, KSA
DeepSource Technologies
Salary not disclosedPosted today
This is an external listing. JobSpring does not represent or verify the employer. Report this listing
