Cloud Security Consultant

About the role

MPIV Partners is looking for a Cloud Security Consultant to assess cloud environments, identify security risks and help clients implement practical, scalable improvements. The consultant works with engineering, security and DevOps teams to design secure cloud architectures, configure and optimise cloud security platforms, review Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code deployments and integrate security into development and operational workflows. The role is open to candidates across LATAM.

Key responsibilities

• Assess cloud security posture across AWS, Azure and GCP environments and identify misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, excessive permissions and exposure paths.
• Implement and optimise CNAPP, CSPM and related cloud security solutions.
• Review cloud architectures, Kubernetes environments, Terraform configurations and CI/CD workflows, and recommend practical remediation strategies.
• Support the adoption of DevSecOps practices and conduct security reviews and threat-modelling activities.
• Collaborate with client security, engineering, infrastructure and DevOps teams.
• Create technical documentation, standards, implementation guides and operational runbooks.
• Monitor emerging cloud threats and contribute to improving the firm's methodologies.

Required profile

• Hands-on experience securing at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud).
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong written and spoken English, able to explain risk clearly and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Preferred: experience with clients in a consulting or professional-services setting, across more than one public cloud, and knowledge of cloud architecture frameworks, compliance standards or security benchmarks.

Required skills

• Identity and access management, network security, data protection, logging, monitoring and incident response.
• Experience with CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, CIEM or vulnerability-management tools.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Terraform, infrastructure as code and CI/CD security.
• Application security and DevSecOps, including SAST, DAST and software supply-chain security.
• Preferred: Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud or Cortex Cloud; certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Security Engineer or Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer.