Title: Cyber Security Analyst - L4
Location: Norwich
Mandatory Skills: Cloud Security Posture Management.
Job Description:
The Cloud Security (Wiz Admin) is responsible for administering operating and optimising Avivas Wiz Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM/CNAPP) role ensures continuous visibility governance and risk reduction across Avivas multicloud environments (AWS Azure GCP).The administrator will drive operational excellence support engineering teams integrate Wiz into enterprise tooling and maintain policy compliance and posture improvement
Key Responsibilities:
Platform Administration & Operations
Own daytoday administration of the Wiz platform across all cloud environments.
Maintain Wiz connectors leastprivilege roles integration points and scanning configurations.
Ensure onboarding/offboarding of cloud accounts subscriptions and K8s clusters.
Monitor platform health ingestion coverage API integrations and license utilisation.
Cloud Posture Management
Review tune and maintain security policies controls and baselines (e.g. CIS NIST ISO).
Validate and enhance attack path analysis identity risk detection and data exposure mapping.
Prioritise findings using impactbased and exploitpathbased logic.
Partner with Cloud Platform teams to ensure guardrails remain aligned with Wiz detections.
ShiftLeft Enablement
Work with DevOps/SRE teams to embed Wiz in CI/CD pipelines for IaC scanning.
Run onboarding sessions for teams on using Wiz Issues Projects and PolicyasCode.
Validate false positives/negatives and finetune policy gates for Terraform ARM/Bicep and CloudFormation.
Incident & Risk Handling
Support Cloud Security SOC and IR teams during investigations involving publicly exposed exploitable or highrisk cloud assets.
Provide expert analysis on Wiz findings and attack paths; propose remediation and compensating controls.
Contribute to postincident reviews rootcause analysis and longterm posture improvements.
Integrations & Automation
Maintain integrations with Jira/ADO SIEM/SOAR Slack/Teams and CMDB/GRC.
Automate workflows for enrichment prioritisation ticketing and reporting.
Partner with Engineering to build autoremediation playbooks for safetofix classes (e.g. public S3 permissive IAM).
Governance Reporting & Compliance
Produce monthly security posture reports for leadership and Risk/Compliance teams.
Track KPIs (coverage MTTR SLA adherence risk trends).
Support external and internal audit requests using Wizs evidence and compliance modules.
Manage exceptions/waivers and ensure they are reviewed and retired on schedule.
Core Technical Skills
Strong understanding of AWS Azure and GCP security controls and architecture.
Handson experience with cloud IAM network security logging/monitoring and workload security.
Familiarity with Kubernetes security and container image scanning.
Experience operating cloud security platforms (Wiz preferred; alternatives: Prisma Lacework Defender for Cloud).
Working knowledge of InfrastructureasCode (Terraform strongly preferred).
Understanding of identity and entitlements management (CIEM).
Ability to analyse cloud attack paths and map misconfigurations to real exploitable risk.
Nice-to-Have Skills
Experience integrating security tools into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps GitHub GitLab).
Knowledge of SAST/DAST/Secret scanning tools.
Exposure to SRE or Cloud Platform engineering.
Soft Skills
Strong communication skillsable to simplify complex findings for engineering teams.
Problem-solving mindset with a bias for automation and scalability.
Ability to work crossfunctionally with Security Cloud Platform DevOps Risk and Audit.
Comfortable with influencing teams without formal authority.