About this role
About the Role Accenture Security is seeking Senior Managers for its Security practice with extensive experience in cloud security strategy, architecture, implementation and operations, focusing on Zero Trust / SASE and client delivery. What You'll Do
- Help develop, foster and sell network security projects
- Drive the development and upskill of junior resources
- Design and deliver network security and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offerings and solutions for clients; support the delivery of Accenture's security offerings related to cloud security including governance (security policies and procedures), security strategy (security planning), risk management, cloud data protection (classification, encryption, tokenization), cloud-based identity and access management, technology/provider-specific cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, Softlayer, VMware) and monitoring/analytics for and in the cloud
- Ability to interpret relevance of security controls to relevant compliance with legal, best-practice, and regulatory requirements for cloud environments
- Developing and presenting at industry conferences as an expert in the Cloud Security field
- Lead the growth, development and support junior cloud security resources
- Understand engagements, business drivers and security enablement opportunities as it relates to our client's business
- Demonstrate ability to lead and manage business development / proposal efforts
- Business development responsibilities around cloud & network security including origination, capture and relationship development
- Ability to translate technical cloud security requirements into business terms for executive stakeholders
- Conduct cloud and infrastructure security strategy, readiness and discovery assessments; be familiar with cloud security frameworks, compliance requirements and security operations
- Deliver services that meet Accenture Project quality specifications
- Ability to take initiative to communicate, interact, and collaborate with others to ensure that all aspects of a task are addressed What We're Looking For
- Minimum 5 years of experience with Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, Fortinet, Cisco, Netskope (SASE, Firewalls, and/or Edge)
- Minimum 5 years Hands on experience and knowledge with network security concepts and architectures around Zero Trust and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), macro/micro-segmentation (Illumio, Guardicore)
- Minimum of 6 years managing projects using a standardized set of project management principles
- Minimum of 6 years of technical writing and report generation
- Minimum of 5 years of managing teams of 5 or more resources
- Minimum 5 years of experience with Cloud & Network Security vendors
- Minimum 5 years of experience Enterprise IT security risk assessments and related frameworks (e.g., ISO 27000 series, NIST 800 Series, COBIT, IT General Controls, etc.)
- Minimum 5 years of experience with multiple, simultaneous vendor management
- Bachelor's degree or equi