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 environment
• 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