Cloud Assurance Senior Manager
Location: London / Hybrid (2 days per week)
Salary: Manager £60,000 to £75,000
Benefits: Bonus, 8% matched pension, 27 days annual leave, Health Care, Career pathway to AD.
Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Cloud Assurance Senior Manager to join a leading global consultancy supporting some of the UK's largest financial services and regulated organisations who are building out a new Cloud Assurance Practice.
We are seeking a technically credible Cloud Assurance professional with experience delivering cloud audits, cloud risk assessments, and technology assurance reviews across modern cloud environments.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys assessing cloud risks, controls, governance, and security frameworks rather than designing or implementing cloud solutions. We are specifically looking for candidates from Cloud Audit, Technology Risk, IT Audit, Cloud Assurance, or Cloud Risk backgrounds.
You will work alongside senior leadership teams delivering cloud assurance engagements across AWS, Azure, and hybrid cloud environments while helping clients strengthen their cloud governance, security, resilience, and control frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver cloud assurance, cloud risk, and technology audit engagements across AWS, Azure, and hybrid cloud environments.
- Assess cloud governance, security, resilience, operational controls, and risk management frameworks.
- Perform cloud control testing and evaluate the effectiveness of cloud operating models.
- Review cloud architecture, identity and access management controls, monitoring, logging, backup, resilience, and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Support technology internal audit engagements involving cloud transformation programmes.
- Identify control gaps and provide pragmatic recommendations to improve cloud risk management.
- Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders and senior management.
- Support regulatory, operational resilience, and third-party risk reviews where cloud services form part of the technology estate.
- Coach and mentor junior team members whilst contributing to engagement delivery.
- Assist in developing cloud assurance methodologies and best practice approaches.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Experience delivering Cloud Assurance, Technology Risk, IT Audit, or Internal Audit engagements is a must have.
- Strong understanding of AWS and/or Microsoft Azure cloud platforms is a must have.
- Experience assessing cloud governance, cloud security, operational resilience, and cloud risk frameworks.
- Understanding of cloud-native services, IAM, networking, monitoring, logging, encryption, and disaster recovery concepts.
- Experience performing control testing and assurance reviews within regulated environments.
- Ability to communicate technical findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working within Financial Services, Banking, Insurance, Government, or other highly regulated sectors.
Two stage interviews, to start ASAP.
