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Security Architect Consultant

Security Transformation Team Lead/Consultant | Mid-Level | Full time
Job No. 13366605 | Cairo
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Title: Security Architect

Location:  Cairo, Egypt

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Accenture Security 

Join Accenture Security to pioneer security solutions that blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed services. Using the coolest next-gen tech, you’ll have every chance to stay one step ahead of cybercrime and out-hack the hackers.  

Accenture Security provides comprehensive security services – from security strategy development to business transformation, to managed security services – on demand and at a global scale to help mitigate risks and take full advantage of advanced technologies and proven risk management models. Our experienced team of global security professionals helps businesses understand their risks and build resilience from the inside out, giving them the confidence to focus on what matters most: innovation and business growth. 

Responsibilities     

  • Develop Enterprise Security Architecture capabilities. 

  • Define and design security architecture and design principles. 

  • Data and Network Security

  • Develop security architecture blueprints and use cases. 

  • Develop enterprise security architecture models. 

  • Ensure that Cybersecurity Architecture design is aligned with the organization's Cybersecurity strategy. 

  • Develop and integrate Cybersecurity designs for systems and networks with multilevel security requirements. 

  • Perform cybersecurity reviews and identify gaps in security architecture, to develop cybersecurity risk management plans. 

  • Provide input to the risk management framework and related documentation. 

  • Advise on security requirements to be included in RFP process, project and change management processes 

  • Analyze candidate architectures, allocate security services, and select security mechanisms. 

  • Define and prioritize essential system capabilities or business functions required for partial or full system restoration after a catastrophic failure event. 

  • Ensure that acquired or developed systems and architectures are consistent with organization's 

  • cybersecurity architecture guidelines. 

  • Translate proposed capabilities into technical requirements. 

  • Design systems and solutions to support successful proofs-of-concept and pilot projects in emerging 

  • Read and interpret technical diagrams, specifications, drawings, blueprints, and schematics relating to systems and networks. 

  • Recommend cost-effective security controls to mitigate risks identified through testing and review 

  • Develop and address security architecture and systems security engineering requirements throughout the acquisition life cycle. 

  • Guarantee that acquired or developed systems and architectures are consistent with cybersecurity architecture guidelines. 

  • Read and translate technical diagrams, specifications, drawings, blueprints and schematics relating to systems and networks. 

  • Must have experience in cloud security and able to architect for azure , aws , googlecloud or private cloud  

  • Bachelor’s degree in information security, cybersecurity or relevant field. 

  • Should be certified in CISSP, CISM, TOGAF Foundation, SABSA SCF, or equal certifications 

  • Data and Network Security

  • Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills 

  • Consulting, stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills 

  • Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment 

  • Flexibility to travel 

  • Knowledge of SABSA and TOGAF frameworks. 

  • Ability to apply network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles. 

  • Ability to apply secure system design tools, methods, and techniques and in line with security policies. 

  • Ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements. 

  • Ability to develop and maintain architecture to support an organization's goals and objectives. 

  • Ability to optimize systems to meet enterprise performance requirements 

  • Ability to work with enterprise architects, systems security engineers, system owners, control owners, and system security officers to apply security controls as system-specific, hybrid, or common controls. 

  • Knowledge of the organization's enterprise cybersecurity architecture. 

  • Knowledge of the principles of cybersecurity and privacy. 

  • Knowledge of how to analyze capabilities and requirements. 

  • Knowledge of cybersecurity defense and vulnerability assessment tools and their capabilities. 

  • Knowledge of network components, their operation, appropriate network security controls, traffic protocols, methods, and management. 

  • Knowledge and understanding of risk assessment, mitigation, and management methods. 

  • Knowledge of relevant cybersecurity and privacy principles and related legislative and regulatory requirements  

  • Knowledge of cybersecurity-related threats and vulnerabilities. 

  • Knowledge and understanding of new technologies and solutions from a cybersecurity perspective. 

  • Knowledge of key security management concepts

Cairo

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