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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. As a Cloud Architect, you will play a critical role in driving cloud-native transformations, migrations, automation, and CI/CD enablement for RSM clients. You will design and implement scalable DevOps pipelines, cloud infrastructure automation, and site reliability engineering (SRE) best practices to optimize application delivery and performance. In this client-facing role, you will work with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, architects, and cybersecurity professionals, to accelerate digital transformation initiatives across industries. 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 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 Cloud Architect you will be helping to drive 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 for delivering engineering deliverables across multiple engagements simultaneously, including several threads of complex implementation and migration engagements.

Successful candidates typically have 5-8+ years of experience in the following areas:

• Experience delivering engineering solutions as code on client cloud platforms to 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 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.
• Manage squads of consultants and cloud engineers, performing quality control on the client deliverables.
• 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:

• Big 4, Big 3, or equivalent consulting experience
• Personable, problem-solving oriented thinker who can develop a plan to solve ambiguous challenges. Willing to challenge themselves and bring their perspective to the conversation. You must possess the ability to break down complex, enterprise challenges into logical, manageable components
• Excellent communication skills. This role is client facing and you are expected to be able to clearly communicate technical concept to clients, lead meetings and drive outcomes
• Doer / Driver type who is proactive about doing technical research, coming up with a plan, and bringing recommendations to leadership. Individuals who expect to sit idle while waiting to be tasked are not a good fit for this role
• Experience participating in product management / agile approach to technology delivery
• Highly technically curious with the ability to self-educate on new technologies with appropriate support form leadership. Motivated with a desire to keep learning and growing skillset
• The ability to interpret and convey technical information through written and oral communications to all levels of technical aptitude, including to senior management
• Proficiency with popular Cloud platforms and technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with software development and build automation, CI / CD pipelines, and a DevSecOps approach to technology delivery
• Experience with private, public and hybrid Cloud deployments
• Proficiency in Terraform and CSP native IaC languages (CloudFormation, ARM, Bicep)
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Powershell, C# .Net Bash, PowerShell, or Go. or alternative equivalent languages
• Experience guiding clients in the adoption of cloud-native, serverless, and containerized architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• High degree of integrity and confidentiality, as well as ability to adhere to company policies and best practices

The following qualifications are preferred:

• Minimum B.A. or B.S. degree or equivalent from an accredited university by the time employment commences with a major in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems Management, Information Security or other related fields
• Bachelor's degree or graduate degree and 5-8 years of related work experience
• Experience leading cross-functional teams of cloud consultants and engineers
• Experience with 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.

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