Consulting Director - Cloud Security

Role overview Lead a cloud security consulting practice focused on designing and delivering security solutions for Azure environments. This is a player-coach position: roughly half of the time is devoted to billable client work such as architecture oversight, assessments, executive advice, and escalations; the remainder is focused on growing the practice, developing people and services, supporting sales, and overseeing priority accounts.

Responsibilities - Coach consulting managers, architects, and engineers; assess team capabilities and establish development and certification plans. - Advise client security and technology leaders, align engagements to business outcomes, and surface delivery risks early. - Develop repeatable approaches for security assessments, identity and Zero Trust roadmaps, threat protection, data governance, and secure AI adoption. - Set delivery standards and help maintain quality from presales through implementation and handoff to security operations or managed services. - Partner with sales and presales on market strategy, proposals, and client opportunities; oversee high-impact accounts. - Track practice performance, including revenue, utilization, gross margin, team retention, and service growth; promote learning in Azure security, AI, and automation.

Requirements - Leadership experience in cloud security consulting and the ability to guide teams delivering client engagements. - Strong expertise across Azure security areas such as identity, threat protection, data protection, and governance. - Ability to advise senior client stakeholders and oversee architecture, assessments, and escalations. - Experience developing consulting teams, delivery methods, or security service offerings. - Ability to meet a 50% billable utilization target while leading practice development and team performance.

Nice to have - Familiarity with Microsoft security certifications, including SC-100, SC-300, SC-200, SC-500, or SC-401. - Experience with security readiness for AI tools and services, including governance and automation.

Benefits and work setup The role has a 50% individual billable utilization target; consulting managers on the team have a 75% target. Work visa sponsorship is not available.