Security Architect at KPMG South Africa

Key Responsibilities
Working with KPMG you will consult on client projects, translating business and customer needs into innovative business and technology solutions. You will identify changes and recommend solutions that will typically involve a combination of Network Architecture and security excellence outcomes. You will be exposed to a range of exciting projects across industry sectors and service lines including:

• Acting as a subject matter in the business for security architecture and wider technology advisory.
• Create reference architecture covering network segmentations, software defined perimeter, certificate management, identity, and access management, managing privilege accesses, application integration. Knowledge of at least one or more of such concepts is desirable.
• Facilitate information gathering, requirements analysis and design activities that support actionable roadmaps and strategies aligned to global standards such as NIST, ISO, TOGAF etc
• Advise clients in creating future architecture and improving current state security architecture
• Assist in engagements relating to zero trust transformations across domains
• Develops overall architecture for network segmentation endpoint tooling, network security products and related endpoint-based controls for cloud and network operations.
• Driving standardization and automation into all aspects of the network platform.
• Prepare and maintain technical design documentation, diagrams and task-level project plans.
• Translating business requirements into technical objectives for development teams
• Take responsibility for delivering high quality deliverables and outcomes for our clients.
• Writing reports based on our internal guidelines and quality standards

Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 - 5 years of industry experience in development, support, configuration, deployment of security architecture.
• Exposure of zero trust and related business architectures
• CCNP & CCDP or higher certifications strongly preferred but not mandatory
• 3-5 years of experience designing service provider network infrastructures, at scale, e.g., ZTN, MPLS/BGP, routing, switching, SDN/NFV, EVPN, VXLAN.
• Knowledge of IT networks, Zero Trust Architecture concepts and related identity management concepts such as PIM, PAM, IGA etc
• Experience in network automation & REST API programming is advantageous.
• A high level of learning agility to keep up with ever-changing business needs architecture changes, vendor/supplier offerings and service changes.
• Ability and willingness to work in a multicultural virtual and remote team.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, with ability to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and authority;
• Must be able to prioritize, delegate and foster the development of high-performance teams to lead/support an environment driven by customer service and teamwork;
• Strong trouble-shooting and organizational skills and able to work on multiple projects simultaneously;
• Team player with ambitions for leadership roles