Senior Consultant - Cloud Security Architect

About the role

Digital Trust is seeking a Senior Consultant to lead cloud security architecture engagements for its clients in the Middle East. You will combine deep technical expertise with advisory skills to help organisations adopt secure cloud environments and meet regulatory requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Analyse client business challenges, cloud ambitions and threat landscape to design secure cloud adoption strategies.
• Design and implement security controls for Azure landing zones, including identity, networking, logging, governance, encryption and workload protection.
• Provide security architecture guidance across Azure, Microsoft 365, AWS and OCI environments.
• Assess existing cloud setups against baselines such as CIS, NIST, ISO and cloud‑provider best practices.
• Develop automation for security controls, posture reporting and risk dashboards.
• Support presales, proposal development and business development activities.

Required profile

• Proven track record in cloud security architecture and consulting, preferably with Big 4 experience.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure landing zone design and secure lift‑and‑shift migrations.
• Ability to communicate complex security concepts to both technical teams and senior business stakeholders.
• Experience delivering cybersecurity services in a commercial or consulting environment.

Required skills

• Microsoft Azure and Azure landing zone security
• Microsoft 365 security services
• AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) fundamentals
• Identity and Access Management (Entra ID, Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management)
• DevSecOps, Infrastructure‑as‑Code and Policy‑as‑Code
• Security automation and continuous control monitoring
• Frameworks and baselines: CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Network security, logging, monitoring, Azure Key Vault and RBAC