Azure Cloud Security Architect — Lead Secure Cloud Architecture

GCS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Architect to design secure architectures for Azure and multi-cloud environments. You will lead security strategy and collaborate with engineering teams to shift applications and data to the cloud securely.

The role requires hands-on threat modeling, hardened configurations, and strong knowledge of cloud services. You will work with security governance and respond to evolving cyber threats.

Qualifications

• Must have cloud security architecture experience on Azure.
• AWS and GCP security architecture experience preferred.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering cloud/internet-facing applications.
• Ability to produce hardened configuration standards for cloud services.
• Threat modeling experience.
• Proficiency with PowerShell, Java, C/C++, Python, JavaScript.
• Hands-on with ARM templates and Terraform.
• Excellent cybersecurity governance, risk management and incident response knowledge.
• Understanding of financial industry cybersecurity laws and ethics.

Responsibilities

• Support project teams in designing secure architectures for environments and infrastructure.
• Identify requirements and embed them into Azure environments and security control design.
• Collaborate across the organization to deliver artifacts enabling cloud movement (strategy, target state, roadmaps, statements, concepts, specs).
• Provide a detailed understanding of cloud security, threat landscape, and risks.
• Be hands-on, guiding engineering and development teams, influencing decisions, and communicating strategy.
• Lead across disciplines (security architecture, compute, storage, networking, virtualization, data centre, API integration, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, DevSecOps, service delivery).
• Lead through influence and communicate with stakeholders to reach target state.
• Collaborate with security architects, engineers, developers, application owners and senior management.

Skills

Azure security

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Programming languages

Security architecture

DevSecOps

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenStack

Terraform

ARM templates

Job description

GCS is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Architect to design secure architectures for Azure and multi-cloud environments. You will lead security strategy and collaborate with engineering teams to shift applications and data to the cloud securely.

The role requires hands-on threat modeling, hardened configurations, and strong knowledge of cloud services. You will work with security governance and respond to evolving cyber threats.