Job Title: Cloud Security Lead (Africa)
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
About the Job
- At KPMG, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause: to turn insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world.
- As the Cloud Security Lead, you will lead a team to provide technical guidance to customers adopting Cloud services.
- You will provide best practices on secure foundational cloud implementations, automated provisioning of infrastructure and applications, cloud-ready application architectures, and more.
- You will assist customers in migrating, building, modernizing, and maintaining applications in the Cloud.
- This role seeks an experienced professional who will be responsible for helping our clients secure their cloud workloads and infrastructure and ensure adherence to compliance requirements.
- This is a Pan-African role with responsibility for leading a team across the continent. The resource will be based in either Johannesburg, Nairobi, or Lagos.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy:
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- Provide support to the Africa region around cloud security initiatives
- Leverage regional alliances with technology partners (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, AWS, Google, etc) to drive proactive leads generation, joint pitch, pipeline management and conversions where required
- Manage, expand, and scale a team of security architects and engineers
- Participate in the development and publication of thought leadership
- Leverage local and global KPMG artefacts, SMEs, and other network assets to advance the firm’s platform agenda
- Provide domain expertise in cloud security and compliance and be a trusted technical advisor to customers. Solve cloud security and compliance challenges
- Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of business and technical stakeholders
Client Impact:
- Manage disparate executive stakeholders within customer environments to deliver consensus and lead positive customer outcomes
- Review and advise on best practices for security policies, procedures, and standards developed for client’s cloud infrastructure
- Provide subject matter expertise on security best practices and industry standards to the client’s technical teams
- Work with customers to design and develop cloud security architectures and solutions to meet and exceed their security requirements, through discussions, strategic presentations or recommendations, and implementation in Cloud environment.
- Stay up to date with the latest cloud security threats, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures
Finance:
- Deliver on targets and goals (including sales goals)
- Provide annual budget input for the area of responsibility for approval and integration into service line/ growth area budget
- Manage the annual budget, including costs for designated area
Requirements, Skills and Attributes
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or any other relevant field
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in cloud security or related security roles
- Strong technical knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Expertise in cloud security tools such as CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Security Hub, GuardDuty, and Azure Security Center
- Experience in technical consulting and working with cross-functional teams and customers.
- Experience in Cloud Security delivered within the context of internal or customer facing roles
- Experience in recruiting and managing a team of experienced engineers on projects.
- Strong knowledge of network security concepts such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS), and virtual private networks (VPNs).
- Expertise in security incident response, including incident detection, analysis, containment, and recovery
- Familiarity with security testing tools and techniques such as vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and threat modeling
- Experience with security information and event management (SIEM) systems, especially within the context of monitoring cloud environments.
- Knowledge of authentication and authorization mechanisms such as OAuth, SAML, and LDAP.
- Experience with security compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, relevant data privacy regulations, PCI-DSS etc
- Knowledge of container security and experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience leading cloud security projects and managing security teams.
- Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices and industry standards.
- Confident, tactful, and able to effectively influence others and deal effectively with senior leaders
- Critical thinking, presentation and analytical skills will be an advantage
- Strong communicator, including listening skills with an ability to translate insights across business and technology teams and to develop and present new ideas and conceptualize new approaches and solutions
- Strong team and work ethic, comfortable with ambiguity, change and challenge
Application Closing Date
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Job Category | Security / Intelligence |