Cloud Security Architect - Senior Consultant at Deloitte Houston, TX

Cloud Security Architect - Senior Consultant

Deloitte & Touche LLP is seeking a Cloud Security Architect (Senior Consultant) located in Houston, TX. The role is part of the Cloud Cyber Services team and involves defining and assessing cloud security strategy, architecture, and practices for clients across multiple hyperscalers.

Recruiting for this role ends on 12/31/2025.

• Lead/provide technical guidance and solutioning for the delivery of Cloud Cyber Risk projects in a project manager and/or architect role, overseeing the activities of onsite and offshore engineers and architects across 8 key cyber domains:
  Governance, Identity, Application Security, PaaS security, Infrastructure security, Security Monitoring, Resilience and Data protection.
• Assist in business development activities such as defining scope of services, building resource estimates and related pricing, packaging proposals and supporting delivery of proposals for AWS, GCP, Azure and/or Oracle Cloud services.
• Act as key client point of contact interface, building rapport and trust with the client.
• Act as a technical specialist in CNAPP, CWPP and CSPM technologies and security risk frameworks relevant to cloud, as well as industry leading benchmarks.
• Lead the generation of all project deliverables such as assessment reports, system designs/architectures and risk/security recommendations.
• Maintain strong domain knowledge of multi‑hyperscaler cloud solutions and security concepts and technologies.
• Assist clients with security frameworks, cloud configuration standards and resolving cloud vulnerabilities.
• Lead the execution of cloud security engagements during different phases of the lifecycle – assess, design and implementation.
• Lead engagements to perform technical health checks for cloud platforms/environments prior to broader deployments.
• Oversee technical support for AWS, GCP, Azure and/or Oracle cyber services and resolve service‑related issues through research, troubleshooting and working with vendors.
• Conduct cloud security analysis, recommendations and configurations of prospective clients' platforms and environments based on Deloitte's Cloud Cyber Risk Framework.
• Perform technical health checks for these cloud platforms/environments prior to broader deployments including Dev Sec Ops  and CI/CD pipelines.
• Use leading cyber tooling for cloud such as Wiz and Snyk; support proof of concept and production deployments of these cloud technologies for AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle, Wiz and/or Snyk.
• Assist clients with transitions to using cloud services such as tenant setup and service configuration, focused on cloud cyber risk mitigation.
• Assist clients with deployment of third‑party technologies to secure the cloud platform such as firewall, WAF, PAM and cloud workload protection.
• Assist clients with configuration and delivery of cloud security and compliance reports.
• Provide technical support for AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, Wiz, Snyk and third‑party security services and resolve service‑related issues through research and troubleshooting.
• Implement industry‑leading practices around Azure, AWS, GCP, Wiz, Snyk and cloud security services for clients.
• Design and develop cloud‑specific security policies, standards and procedures (tenant, management group and subscription management, access control, firewall management, auditing, monitoring, incident & event management, data protection, user & administrator account management, SSO, conditional access, password/key management).
• Troubleshoot system‑level problems in a multi‑vendor, multi‑protocol network environment.
• Document platform technical issues, analysis, client communication and resolution as part of cyber risk mitigation steps.
• Execute cloud security engagements during lifecycle stages – assess, design, implementation & post‑implementation reviews.
• Implement industry‑leading practices around cyber risks and cloud security for clients.
• Provide internal cloud and devSecOps security technical training to Advisory personnel as needed.
• Act as a subject matter specialist on cloud cyber risk for the cloud platforms.
• Contribute to Point‑of‑Views (PoVs) on providing leading practices to clients facing…