Risk Manager in Surrey Quays - CV-Library

Job Title: Risk Manager

Pay Rate: up to £661.50 per day - Umbrella Only (Inside IR35

Clearance required: SC (Home Office SC preferred)

Interview process: Initial interview with Capgemini. Potential for second interview.

Location: Hybrid - 1 to 2 days per month on client or Capgemini site

Job Description:

Risk Identification and Assessment: Evaluate AWS services and infrastructure, such as EC2, S3, RDS, and VPC configurations, to identify potential risks, including misconfigurations, resource overprovisioning, or security vulnerabilities.
Risk Mitigation Planning: Develop and implement strategies to minimize AWS-specific risks, such as enforcing IAM best practices.
Risk Monitoring and Reporting: Continuously monitor AWS environments using tools like AWS Config, CloudWatch, and Trusted Advisor, reporting critical risks such as cost anomalies, resource misalignment, or security threats.
Compliance and Standards Adherence: Ensure AWS-hosted platforms meet regulatory and industry standards (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA), leveraging AWS compliance programs and tools like Artifact and Security Hub.
Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams: Partner with DevOps, security, and development teams to enforce AWS-specific governance, ensure proper tagging strategies, and align platform risk management with business goals.
Training and Awareness: Conduct AWS-specific risk management training, educating teams on topics such as shared responsibility, secure architecture design, and proper usage of AWS services to reduce exposure.
Meet regularly with the Project/Delivery teams to understand, capture and update Risks/Issues.
Ensure the Project/Delivery teams understand the Risks/Issue management process.
Ensure the Project/Delivery teams are capturing and updating Risks/Issues in the agreed format.
Meet regularly with the client to ensure that Risks/Issues are shared and being actioned.
Agree and update the Risk/Issue management process with all EBSA stakeholders.
Work with the EBSA team to ensure that the Risk/Issue process is maintained on the appropriate solution.
Follow process to maintain Risks/Issues within Jira and ServiceNow as appropriate.
Understand and classify the Risks/Issues according to guidelines.
Provide Dashboards and analysis of risks to support governance processes.
Support the contract, relationship and SLT meetings with updated views of risks/issues.
Ensure that the SLT are aware of risks requiring attention.
Ensure that all risks/issue have appropriate mitigations and action plans and target dates are being tracked and escalated if necessary