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Accenture

Athens; Greece

Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Posted yesterday

Level
Senior
Experience
5+ years
Work style
On-site
Full-time
Area
Security engineering

At a glance

The role in plain English

This is a senior engineering role focused on designing, implementing and maintaining secure cloud infrastructure for enterprise clients. The position suits experienced cloud security professionals with hands-on skills in multi-cloud environments. Day-to-day work includes deploying security controls, troubleshooting production issues, collaborating with architecture and DevOps teams, and mentoring junior engineers. The role is based on-site in Athens, requiring regular client interaction and compliance with security standards.

What you'll do

  • Design and maintain secure enterprise cloud infrastructure solutions
  • Implement and operate cloud services across Azure, AWS or OCI
  • Analyze technology risks and develop mitigation strategies
  • Support deployment and configuration of cloud security services
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to documentation

What they're looking for

Essential

  • University degree in a relevant technical discipline
  • Minimum 5 years' cloud-based IT project experience
  • Experience with AWS, Azure or OCI
  • Valid cloud security certification for Azure, AWS or OCI
  • Mandatory on-site presence five days per week

Nice to have

  • Security certifications for multiple cloud providers

Core skills

  • Cloud security
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • OCI
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Risk analysis
  • Troubleshooting
  • Technical documentation

Certifications mentioned

  • AWS security certification
  • Azure security certification
  • OCI security certification

The shape of the job

Technical depth

4/5

FoundationalSpecialist

Pace

3/5

SteadyFast-moving

Ownership

3/5

GuidedSelf-directed

Teamwork

4/5

Heads-downHighly collaborative

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  1. 01Describe your experience securing multi-cloud environments.
  2. 02How do you approach risk analysis for cloud infrastructure?
  3. 03Explain a time you resolved a critical production issue in the cloud.
  4. 04What steps do you take to ensure compliance with cloud security standards?

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company providing digital, cloud and security solutions to businesses, governments and organisations.

Full job descriptionAs published by Accenture

ARE YOU READY to step up to the New and take your technology expertise to the next level?

Through unmatched industry experience, leading technologies from our ecosystem partners and startups, and the largest delivery network in the world, we provide a powerful range of capabilities that can be tailored to our client’s most complex business needs. With over 100 innovation hubs deployed around the world, we help clients continuously innovate at speed and at scale so they can outpace their peers. You will bring innovation, intelligence and industry experience together with the newest technologies to help clients innovate at scale and transform their businesses.

Technology is one of four services –the others are Strategy and Consulting, Song and Operations.

Work You'll Do

We are looking for experienced Cloud Security Engineers to join a strategic Cloud Center of Excellence, supporting the design, implementation, operation, and optimization of enterprise-scale cloud platforms.

The role focuses on delivering security solutions for cloud infrastructure and platform services across multi-cloud environments. You will support cloud transformation initiatives, ensure operational excellence, and collaborate with architecture, DevOps, networking, and data engineering teams.

The ideal candidate combines strong cloud security engineering expertise with hands-on implementation experience and a proven ability to support critical production environments.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, configure, and maintain enterprise cloud infrastructure solutions, with a focus on security.
  • Analyze technology risks and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.
  • Support the implementation and operation of cloud services across Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
  • Build and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud environments.
  • Implement infrastructure and platform services in alignment with cloud architecture and security best practices.
  • Support the deployment and configuration of cloud security services.
  • Contribute to operational procedures, cloud security controls, and technical documentation.
  • Participate in knowledge transfer, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to capability development initiatives.
  • Ensure compliance with organizational security, operational, and cloud governance standards.

Who we are looking for

  • University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or another relevant technical discipline.
  • Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in cloud-based IT projects, with a focus on security.
  • Proven experience in: Public cloud platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, or OCI).Cloud security solution delivery.Cloud infrastructure implementation.Cloud infrastructure operations and maintenance.
  • Strong understanding of cloud security design principles and deployment processes.
  • Good knowledge of infrastructure services in public and private cloud environments.
  • Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in complex production environments.
  • At least one valid cloud security certification for Microsoft Azure, AWS, or OCI is required.
  • Security certifications covering more than one of these cloud providers are considered an advantage.
  • Mandatory presence at client premises five days per week.

What's in it for you

  • Competitive salary and benefits, including but not limited to: life/health insurance, performance based bonuses, monthly vouchers, company car (depending on management level), flexible work arrangements, employee share purchase plan, TEA Accenture, parental leave, paid overtime (if needed) and various corporate discounts
  • Continuous hard and soft skills training & development through global platforms & local academy
  • Career coaching and mentorship to help you manage your career and develop professionally
  • Ongoing strengths and skills based evaluation process
  • Various opportunities to develop your career across a spectrum of clients, industries and projects
  • Diverse and inclusive culture
  • Corporate citizenship initiatives (access to volunteering opportunities, charity work etc.)
  • Under our Brain Regain initiative, extra relocation benefits may apply

To learn more about Accenture, and how you will be challenged and inspired from Day 1, please visit our website accenture.com/gr-en/.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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