Risk Consulting Manager, Senior Cloud Transformation Architect (Location Flexible/Remote)

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RSM Security, Privacy and Risk Manager – Senior Cloud Transformation Architect

In order to address the most critical needs of our clients, RSM US LLP established the Security and Privacy Services Consulting (SPRC) practice, comprised of more than 300 professionals dedicated exclusively to serving the cybersecurity needs of our clients. This group includes experienced consultants located throughout the globe dedicated to helping clients with preventing, detecting, responding and recovering to security threats that may affect their critical systems and data. We serve a diverse client base within a variety of industries and are focused on meeting our clients where they need us most across a variety of security and risk domains - helping them realize their stated outcomes through our cyber advisory, assessment, implementation and managed solutions. 

We are seeking an individual with both broad and deep cloud implementation and migration experience with a focus on building complex multi-cloud and hybrid environments to join our team and lead the continued growth of our cloud security practice serving RSM clients in a variety of industries and geographic locations. The successful candidate will have solid working knowledge of leading cloud engineering practices, understanding of cloud architecture models, leading vendor products and solutions, cloud technology trends and innovation as well as experience leveraging this knowledge to benefit global organizations. The candidate will also possess strong leadership traits and exhibit a proven track record of leading cloud engineering teams in the delivery of cloud capabilities, automations, and integrations.  This individual will be responsible for providing technical leadership on RSM cloud engineering engagements. In addition, the successful candidate will have an interest and track record of developing and expanding the portfolio of cloud solutions that are available to RSM clients.

As a leader within the SPRC practice, the successful candidate is responsible for developing strong working relationships with clients built on understanding their businesses, the challenges they face and the outcomes they are looking to achieve. As a Senior Cloud Transformation Architect, you will be a leader guiding global enterprises through complex cloud modernization initiatives. You will help clients define cloud strategies, design scalable architectures, and drive large-scale cloud adoption, leveraging public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions. The selected candidate will support the identification, pursuit, proposal, and closure of new opportunities with both existing and new clients and will provide subject matter knowledge to support the efforts of the broader consulting practice. This individual will work across multiple client account teams within a wide variety of industries. The candidate is responsible to lead multiple team engagements simultaneously, including several threads of complex implementation and migration engagements.

Successful candidates typically have 8+ years of experience in the following areas:

• Identifying, helping qualify, pursue and win client engagements in Cloud Transformation. Client cloud platforms include, to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and other common Cloud IaaS and SaaS solutions (e.g. Oracle OCI, Alibaba, DigitalOcean).
• Provide technical leadership in the support of cloud solution selection, development, marketing, and delivery.
• Providing Cloud subject matter knowledge on client engagements to assist with developing Cloud strategies and roadmap, architecture, leading practices and operational effectiveness.
• Provide hands-on cloud engineering and architecture expertise across a broad set of Cloud Technologies and Transformation initiatives including: Cloud Transformation Strategy and Operating Models, Core Platform Engineering, Cloud Security, Cloud Centers of Excellence, DevSecOps, Cloud Operations, Application Disposition, Modernization, and Migration, and Applied Cloud Engineering in AI and Data Analytics.
• Experience in cloud architecture design and software development to include the development of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Policy as Code (PaC), and cloud automation and integration software packages.
• Design, architect, implement and support simple to complex enterprise Cloud solutions for a variety of business use cases and requirements. Guide and mentor clients through the end to end cloud journey.
• Mentor, lead, and evaluate junior engineering staff.
• Manage a team of consultants and cloud engineers, performing quality control on the client deliverables of junior staff.
• Development of internal solution summaries and accelerator tool kits.
• Building demonstration scenarios and prototypes.
• Collaborating and working effectively with consultants in other regions and practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or graduate degree and 6-8 years of related work experience
• High Proficiency with popular Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with private, public and hybrid Cloud deployments
• Experience developing and implementing at-scale cloud and hybrid architectures
• Ability to deliver end-to-end automation in a cloud environment
• High proficiency with software build automation, CI / CD pipelines, and a DevSecOps approach to technology delivery
• High proficiency in Terraform and CSP native IaC languages (CloudFormation, ARM, Bicep)
• High proficiency in Python, Java, Powershell, C# .Net Bash, PowerShell, or Go. or alternative equivalent languages
• Knowledge of networking, security principles, and DevSecOps best practices.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally
• Ability to interact effectively with internal and external resources at all organizational levels
• Experience guiding clients in the adoption of cloud-native, serverless, and containerized architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience guiding clients through their compliance challenges across security, risk, and regulatory requirements in cloud environments
• Excellent project management, organization, and follow-up skills
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Must be a team player; able to work in virtual teams and independently
• Willingness and ability to travel
• Strong financial and business acumen, and ability to speak about technology in the language of business
• Experience managing a team using a product management / agile approach
• Curiosity about business and technology; motivated with a desire to learn

The following qualifications are preferred:

• Cloud Security and Cloud FinOps approaches and tooling
• Cloud security frameworks, maturity models, and benchmarks (CSA CCM, NIST 800-53, CMMC, CIS etc)
• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Expert, Google Professional DevOps Engineer.
• High Proficiency with AWS Security Center and popular security services (IAM, Key Vault, etc.)
• Cloud FinOps experience.  Familiarity with AWS Cost Explorer, CUR, Budgets, CUDOS and Azure Cost Management, Analysis, Budgets Cost Alerts, Anomaly Detection
• Knowledge and proficiency with popular cloud security services (VPC, RDS, IAM, WAF, IDS/IPS, AS3, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Inspector, Config, etc.)
• Experience with logging & monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, Splunk).
• GenAI infrastructure platform design and development
• DevOps tooling experience such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or alternative CI / CD automation and orchestration tools
• Experience with CSP container registries and orchestration services  (Kubernetes, Docker, ECR, ECS, EKS, Fargate, AKS, ACA, ACI, ACR ) and container security leading practices

At RSM, we offer a competitive benefits and compensation package for all our people. We offer flexibility in your schedule, empowering you to balance life’s demands, while also maintaining your ability to serve clients. Learn more about our total rewards at https://rsmus.com/careers/working-at-rsm/benefits.

All applicants will receive consideration for employment as RSM does not tolerate discrimination and/or harassment based on race; color; creed; sincerely held religious beliefs, practices or observances; sex (including pregnancy or disabilities related to nursing); gender; sexual orientation; HIV Status; national origin; ancestry; familial or marital status; age; physical or mental disability; citizenship; political affiliation; medical condition (including family and medical leave); domestic violence victim status; past, current or prospective service in the US uniformed service; US Military/Veteran status; pre-disposing genetic characteristics or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. 

Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process and/or employment/partnership. RSM is committed to providing equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, interview, or otherwise participate in the recruiting process, please call us at 800-274-3978 or send us an email at [email protected].

RSM does not intend to hire entry level candidates who will require sponsorship now OR in the future (i.e. F-1 visa holders). If you are a recent U.S. college / university graduate possessing 1-2 years of progressive and relevant work experience in a same or similar role to the one for which you are applying, excluding internships, you may be eligible for hire as an experienced associate.

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At RSM, an employee’s pay at any point in their career is intended to reflect their experiences, performance, and skills for their current role. The salary range (or starting rate for interns and associates) for this role represents numerous factors considered in the hiring decisions including, but not limited to, education, skills, work experience, certifications, location, etc. As such, pay for the successful candidate(s) could fall anywhere within the stated range.

Compensation Range: $103,300 - $207,400