at Accenture in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
We Are
Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along with 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 client’s 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 from within. We blend risk strategy digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.
Do you have the deep functional and technical experience to help implement security solutions that align with our clients’ business objectives? Do you have the expertise to design and deliver solutions for establishing system user’s credentials, and processes for applying those credentials to access enterprise systems and applications?
If so, read on and apply, Accenture’s more than 2000 security professionals deliver holistic and proactive security solutions in 47 countries, and we’d love to discuss our open Cloud and Azure Security roles with you.
We are currently seeking professionals for our Cloud & Infrastructure Security practice with extensive experience in the following:
Job Description
DevOps Terraform / Azure / GCP Cybersecurity professionals develop and deliver solutions that protect enterprise systems, applications and data by establishing policies, practices and tools that prevent unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification or disruption. A professional at this position level within Accenture has the following responsibilities: Adapts existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems. Understands the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals. Uses considerable judgment to determine solution and seeks guidance on complex problems. Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor. May interact with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture. Determines methods and procedures on new assignments with guidance. Decisions often impact the team in which they reside. Manages small teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.
We are currently looking for consultants for our Security practice with experience in cloud security strategy, architecture, implementation and operations for client projects. Key Responsibilities:
- Support the delivery of Accenture’s security offerings related to cloud security, including security governance (security policies and procedures), security strategy (security planning), risk (risk assessments and management), cloud data protection (classification, encryption, tokenization), cloud-based identity and access management, technology/provider-specific cloud architecture (DevOps/Terraform, Azure, GCP) and monitoring/analytics for and in the cloud.
- Ability to map security controls to compliance requirements for cloud environments.
- Demonstrate ability to contribute content to business development / proposal efforts.
- Business development responsibilities around cloud security including requirements analysis, content development, Accenture services and leading practices alignment.
- Conduct cloud security strategy, readiness and discovery assessments; be familiar with cloud security frameworks, compliance requirements and security operations.
- Deliver services that meet Accenture Project quality specifications.
- Ability to take initiative to communicate, interact, and collaborate with others to ensure that all aspects of a task are addressed.
- Ability to quickly ramp up on new cloud security technologies and translate traditional and other cloud-related experience.
Basic Qualifications
+ Minimum of 2 years hands on experience working with Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or Terraform/Containers/DevOps.
+ Minimum of 2 years of server, application and network security hardening experience (e.g., design, recommend and implement security hardening technical controls).
+ Minimum of 1 year managing projects using a standardized set of project management principles.
+ Minimum of 2 years of technical writing and report generation.
+ Minimum 1 year of Conceptual knowledge of the following regulations: PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA.
+ Minimum 1 year of Programming of one or more of the following: C/C#, Python, Javascript, SQL, PHP, Bash, PowerShell, Terraform, Bicep.
+ Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s degree must have minimum 6 years work experience).
Preferred Qualifications
+ Experience with cloud data protection for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS.
+ Experience with cloud-based identity and access management for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS.
+ Experience with cloud-based firewalls and experience with cloud logging, monitoring, analytics, or big data.
+ Experience working Cloud Security Assessments.
+ Experience with Cloud Security vendors in the IAM, SIEM, data protection, monitoring and IaaS provider specific space.
+ Industry recognized certification in security (e.g., CISSP, CCSK, CISA, CISM, CEH, etc.).
+ Experience in Identity and Access Management.
+ Experience in Infrastructure Security.
+ Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems.
+ Experience with application development.
+ Experience with integrity monitoring systems.
Professional Skill Requirements
- Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment.- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.- Desire to work in an information systems environment.- Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York or Washington as set forth below.We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
Information on benefits is here. (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/local/total-rewards)Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $63,200 to $188,600
Colorado $63,200 to $163,000
New York $58,500 to $188,600
Washington $67,300 to $173,500
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