Cloud Security Lead, Africa (Hybrid) at KPMG South Africa

Responsibilities

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 firm’s 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

Client Impact

•  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 client’s cloud infrastructure
•  Provide subject matter expertise on security best practices and industry standards to the client’s 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 

Finance

•  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