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Cloud Security Architect Microsoft Azure (m/f/d)
FTE
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
20.01.2026
A large enterprise undergoing a major cloud‑focused digital transformation, modernizing its security posture, platforms, and operating model. The organization is seeking a Cloud Security Architect to lead the design and assurance of secure, scalable, and compliant cloud services across its technology landscape.
Responsibilities:
• Serve as the technical authority for cloud security architecture, ensuring solutions align with enterprise security standards, Zero Trust principles, and governance frameworks.
• Design and maintain security controls across identity and access management, network security, data protection, threat detection, and workload security.
• Collaborate with global and cross‑functional teams to embed security into cloud platforms, applications, and infrastructure from design through operational readiness.
• Lead security assurance activities including design validation, threat modelling, technical risk assessment, and readiness reviews across the delivery lifecycle.
• Oversee the development of security design documentation, operational security procedures, and knowledge materials to support secure cloud adoption.
• Identify and manage security risks, dependencies, and constraints across hybrid and cloud environments, ensuring alignment with regulatory and compliance requirements.
Qualifications and Skills:
• Deep expertise in cloud security architecture, including secure design of infrastructure, platforms, identity, networking, and monitoring components.
• Strong knowledge of identity and access management principles, including authentication models, privileged access, and secure service‑to‑service communication.
• Experience applying cloud governance controls, security baselines, and best‑practice frameworks to ensure compliant, resilient, and defensible cloud environments.
• Familiarity with operating in highly regulated or security‑controlled environments, including data protection and compliance standards.
• Proven ability to work across regional and global teams, coordinating complex dependencies within structured governance processes.
• Strong analytical, communication, and decision‑making skills, with the ability to guide security design decisions across multi‑disciplinary teams.
Halian Group:
With over 28 years of experience, we have come to understand that innovation is the only way to provide agile, practical solutions that transform businesses and careers.
Our resourcing and smart services help you to realize tomorrow’s potential. Discover the amazing things possible when you bring the right people and the right technologies together.
At Halian, we recognize that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are essential to building high-performing teams for our clients. We are committed to connecting organizations with top talent from all backgrounds, ensuring that every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, gender, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them unique. By fostering diverse and inclusive workplaces, we help our clients drive innovation, enhance collaboration, and better reflect the communities they serve.
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Responsibilities:
• Serve as the technical authority for cloud security architecture, ensuring solutions align with enterprise security standards, Zero Trust principles, and governance frameworks.
• Design and maintain security controls across identity and access management, network security, data protection, threat detection, and workload security.
• Collaborate with global and cross‑functional teams to embed security into cloud platforms, applications, and infrastructure from design through operational readiness.
• Lead security assurance activities including design validation, threat modelling, technical risk assessment, and readiness reviews across the delivery lifecycle.
• Oversee the development of security design documentation, operational security procedures, and knowledge materials to support secure cloud adoption.
• Identify and manage security risks, dependencies, and constraints across hybrid and cloud environments, ensuring alignment with regulatory and compliance requirements.
Qualifications and Skills:
• Deep expertise in cloud security architecture, including secure design of infrastructure, platforms, identity, networking, and monitoring components.
• Strong knowledge of identity and access management principles, including authentication models, privileged access, and secure service‑to‑service communication.
• Experience applying cloud governance controls, security baselines, and best‑practice frameworks to ensure compliant, resilient, and defensible cloud environments.
• Familiarity with operating in highly regulated or security‑controlled environments, including data protection and compliance standards.
• Proven ability to work across regional and global teams, coordinating complex dependencies within structured governance processes.
• Strong analytical, communication, and decision‑making skills, with the ability to guide security design decisions across multi‑disciplinary teams.
Halian Group:
With over 28 years of experience, we have come to understand that innovation is the only way to provide agile, practical solutions that transform businesses and careers.
Our resourcing and smart services help you to realize tomorrow’s potential. Discover the amazing things possible when you bring the right people and the right technologies together.
At Halian, we recognize that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are essential to building high-performing teams for our clients. We are committed to connecting organizations with top talent from all backgrounds, ensuring that every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, gender, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them unique. By fostering diverse and inclusive workplaces, we help our clients drive innovation, enhance collaboration, and better reflect the communities they serve.
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