Cloud and App Sec- Security Senior Manager

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Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients' needs across their entire value chain. Whether we're defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector's brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

You Are:

AWS Security professionals design and deliver solutions that protect cloud infrastructure, applications, identities, and data across Amazon Web Services environments. They establish cloud security architecture, governance, controls, and operational practices that reduce risk and prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or disruption. A professional at this position level within Accenture has the following responsibilities:

Provides solutions to complex business problems requiring in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives and extensive experience with AWS security strategy, architecture, implementation, and operations. Defines near-term goals and strategic direction for secure AWS adoption, including identity and access management, network security, data protection, logging and monitoring, threat detection, vulnerability management, cloud governance, and regulatory compliance. Interacts with senior client and Accenture leadership, influences significant decisions, and determines objectives and approaches for critical assignments.

The Work (Key Responsibilities):

• Lead the design and delivery of AWS security strategy, architecture, implementation, and operations engagements for clients
• Assess AWS environments and develop security roadmaps aligned with business objectives, risk tolerance, and regulatory requirements
• Design secure AWS landing zones and multi-account environments using services such as AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, and AWS Security Hub
• Define and implement identity and access management controls using AWS IAM, IAM Identity Center, permission boundaries, service control policies, and least-privilege principles
• Design AWS network security architectures using Amazon VPC, security groups, network ACLs, AWS Network Firewall, AWS WAF, and connectivity services
• Develop data protection solutions using AWS KMS, AWS CloudHSM, encryption, secrets management, data classification, and secure key-management practices
• Establish cloud security monitoring, logging, threat detection, and incident response capabilities using services such as AWS CloudTrail, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Detective, AWS Config, and Amazon CloudWatch
• Lead cloud security posture management, vulnerability management, and remediation activities across AWS workloads
• Translate AWS security risks and technical requirements into clear business recommendations for executive stakeholders
• Interpret and map AWS security controls to applicable legal, regulatory, and industry frameworks, including NIST, ISO 27001, CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark, and the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Lead client workshops, security assessments, architecture reviews, and executive presentations
• Drive business development, proposal creation, solution shaping, and client relationship activities for AWS Security opportunities
• Coach and develop junior cloud security practitioners while contributing reusable assets, methods, and thought leadership
• Deliver services in accordance with Accenture quality standards and proactively collaborate across client and internal teams