Cloud Security Lead (Africa)
At KPMG, youll 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.
Job Details
- Job Level: Associate Director
- Job Type: Full Time- Hybrid
- Job Location: Johannesburg, Nairobi or Lagos
Your responsibilities will include:
Strategy
- 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 firms 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
- 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 clients cloud infrastructure
- Provide subject matter expertise on security best practices and industry standards to the clients 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
- 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
