Zero Trust - SASE - Infrastructure Security Senior Manager

Accenture•Cincinnati, OH

1d•$112,900 - $338,300•Remote

About The Position

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond and recover along 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 clients’ 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 to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle. Security and Risk 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: Provides solutions to complex business problems for area(s) of responsibility where analysis of situations requires an in depth knowledge of organizational objectives. Involved in setting strategic direction to establish near term goals for area of responsibility. Interacts with senior management levels at a client and/or within Accenture, which involves negotiating or influencing on significant matters. Has latitude in decision-making and determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments. Decisions have a lasting impact on area of responsibility with the potential to impact outside area of responsibility. Manages large teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture. We are currently looking for Senior Managers for our Security practice with extensive experience in cloud security strategy, architecture, implementation and operations for client sales and delivery projects.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of experience with Palo Alto Network, Zscaler, Fortinet, Cisco, Netskope (SASE, Firewalls, and/or Edge)
Minimum 5 years Hands on experience and knowledge with network security concepts and architectures around Zero Trust and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), macro/micro-segmentation (Illumio, Guardicore)
Minimum of 6 years managing projects using a standardized set of project management principles
Minimum of 6 years of technical writing and report generation
Minimum of 5 years of managing teams of 5 or more resources
Minimum 5 years of experience with Cloud & Network Security vendors
Minimum 5 years of experience Enterprise IT security risk assessments and related frameworks (e.g., ISO 27000 series, NIST 800 Series, COBIT, IT General Controls, etc.)
Minimum 5 years of experience conceptual knowledge of the following regulations: PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA
Minimum 5 years of experience with multiple, simultaneous vendor management
Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
Travel will be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 75 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements

Nice To Haves

Experience in IT Security Testing (e.g., penetration testing, web application security assessments, vulnerability assessments and technical security assessments)
Experience in Identity and Access Management
Experience in Infrastructure & Cloud Security (virtualized environments a plus)
Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems
Experience with application development

Responsibilities

Help develop, foster and sell network security projects
Drive the development and upskill of junior resources
Design and deliver network security and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offerings and solutions for clients
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 (AWS, Azure, Softlayer, VMware) and monitoring/analytics for and in the cloud
Ability to interpret relevance of security controls to relevant compliance with legal, best-practice, and regulatory requirements for cloud environments.
Developing and presenting at industry conferences as an expert in the Cloud Security field
Lead the growth, development and support junior cloud security resources
Understand engagements, business drivers and security enablement opportunities as it relates to our client's business
Demonstrate ability to lead and manage business development / proposal efforts
Business development responsibilities around cloud & network security including origination, capture and relationship development
Ability to translate technical cloud security requirements into business terms for executive stakeholders
Conduct cloud and infrastructure 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