Cloud Security Transformation Lead (Hybrid)

Accenture Infrastructure and Capital Projects, LLC; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Competitive rewards

State-of-the-art technology platform

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior cloud security professional to shape and execute our cloud security strategy across AWS, Azure and GCP. You will lead risk assessments, design secure architectures, and translate standards like ISO 27001 and NIST into practical controls.

Join a team that partners with cloud engineering and DevOps to embed security in CI/CD, drive Zero Trust, and guide executive-level security decisions across hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in information security with strong cloud security experience.
• Deep expertise in AWS, Azure or GCP; multi-cloud preferred.
• Solid understanding of IAM, encryption, key management and logging.
• Experience mapping security controls to NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Benchmarks.
• Ability to communicate risk and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the organization’s cloud security strategy, roadmap, and target state architecture.
• 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 for cloud initiatives.
• Translate regulatory requirements into practical cloud controls.
• Partner with cloud engineering, DevOps, and platform teams to embed security into CI/CD.
• Drive Zero Trust, identity-first security, and least-privilege access in the cloud.
• Define security requirements for cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, serverless.
• Evaluate cloud security tools (CSPM, CNAPP, CIEM, CWPP, SIEM).

Skills

Cloud security

IAM

Networking security

Encryption

DevSecOps

CI/CD security

Terraform/CloudFormation/ARM

CSPM/CNAPP/CWPP

Tools

CSPM

CNAPP

CIEM

SIEM

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior cloud security professional to shape and execute our cloud security strategy across AWS, Azure and GCP. You will lead risk assessments, design secure architectures, and translate standards like ISO 27001 and NIST into practical controls.

Join a team that partners with cloud engineering and DevOps to embed security in CI/CD, drive Zero Trust, and guide executive-level security decisions across hybrid environments.