Senior Consultant Cloud Security Architect

Responsibilities

You will help deliver high-quality client engagements by:

Understanding clients' business challenges, cloud ambitions, regulatory requirements, and threat landscape

Advising clients on secure cloud adoption, lift-and-shift migration, and landing zone security design

Designing and implementing security controls across Azure landing zones, including identity, networking, logging, governance, encryption, workload protection, and monitoring

Supporting security architecture across Azure, Microsoft 365, AWS, and OCI environments

Helping clients navigate cybersecurity regulations, security frameworks, and cloud compliance requirements

Advising on cloud security governance, operating models, control frameworks, and risk management

Assessing existing cloud environments against security baselines such as CIS, NIST, ISO, CAF, and cloud provider best practices

Helping clients optimize their digital and technical security controls across multiple layers of the cloud architecture stack

Using security architecture to define and support broader security transformation programs

Delivering automation of security controls, security posture reporting, and risk dashboards where relevant

Supporting small and medium-sized engagements independently and participating as a key team member in larger transformation programs

Supporting presales, proposal development, and business development activities

Building constructive and trusted relationships with clients, both at technical and senior stakeholder level

Acting as a trusted advisor and role model for quality, integrity, and risk management practices

Contributing to the continued development of KPMG's cloud security services and professional network

The person

We are looking for someone with a strong track record in cloud security architecture and consulting, with the ability to combine hands-on technical experience with strong client advisory skills.

The ideal candidate should have:

Proven experience in cloud security architecture, preferably with strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365

Practical experience with secure cloud migration, lift-and-shift scenarios, and Azure landing zone design or implementation

Strong understanding of Azure landing zone security, including management groups, subscriptions, RBAC, Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, logging, network security, private endpoints, Key Vault, backup, and workload protection

Experience assessing, designing, or implementing security controls across multiple layers of the IT architecture stack

Strong knowledge of Identity and Access Management, including Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management, workload identities, and identity governance

Experience with cloud security assessments, security configuration reviews, privacy and regulatory risk assessments, and control framework mapping

Experience with DevSecOps concepts, infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, security automation, and continuous control monitoring is highly desirable

Experience delivering cybersecurity services in a commercial or consulting environment

Experience in one or more cloud service provider environments: Microsoft Azure, AWS, OCI, or GCP

Ability to analyze complex problems, identify core issues, and recommend practical and proportionate solutions

Ability to communicate clearly with both technical teams and senior stakeholders

Ability to translate complex cybersecurity topics into clear business risk, impact, and remediation advice

Ability to work at sustained levels of high intensity while maintaining quality, structure, and professionalism

Previous Big4 experience is a must for this role

Qualifications and certifications

The candidate should ideally have a combination of cloud, security, and architecture certifications. We do not expect every candidate to hold all certifications, but one or more of the following would be highly valued.

Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert - SC-100

Microsoft Certified: Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate - SC-500

Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate - SC-300

Microsoft Certified: Information Security Administrator Associate - SC-401

Microsoft Azure architecture or administrator certifications such as AZ-104 or AZ-305 are also beneficial

AWS Certified Security - Specialty

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer

CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or comparable cybersecurity experience

SABSA, TOGAF, or comparable architecture experience is preferred