Cloud Security Transformation Lead

Accenture Middle East; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 360,000 - 560,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Competitive rewards

Job summary

Accenture Middle East is recruiting an experienced Cloud Security Architect to join Accenture Security in Riyadh. You will design and govern cloud security architectures for AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments while translating business risk into pragmatic controls.

You will lead threat modeling, risk assessments, and CI/CD security, partner with engineering teams, and drive Zero Trust and identity-first security in cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in information security.
• Deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Multi-cloud experience is strongly preferred.
• Solid grasp of DevSecOps, IaC, and CI/CD security.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain cloud security strategy, roadmap, and target state architectures.
• Design security reference architectures for AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments.
• Establish cloud security standards, policies, and guardrails.
• Lead threat modeling, risk assessments, and security design reviews.

Skills

Cloud security

IAM & encryption

DevSecOps

Multi-cloud

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Job description

Accenture Middle East is recruiting an experienced Cloud Security Architect to join Accenture Security in Riyadh. You will design and govern cloud security architectures for AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments while translating business risk into pragmatic controls.

You will lead threat modeling, risk assessments, and CI/CD security, partner with engineering teams, and drive Zero Trust and identity-first security in cloud deployments.