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