Cloud Security Architect

🚀 Founded in 2016, Ekco has quickly become one of Europe’s fastest-growing cloud solution providers and your trusted security-first Managed Service Provider.

IT leaders choose Ekco to drive operational efficiency, scale smarter and stay ahead of risk – powered by local expertise, delivered at European scale.

We specialise in helping organisations advance their cloud maturity guiding transformation, strengthening security, and maximising the value of their technology investments.

☁️ In simple terms: we help organisations modernise with confidence securing their systems, optimising their cloud, and keeping them resilient in a rapidly changing world.

🌍 Today, we’re a thriving team of 1,000+ talented and supportive colleagues across the UK, Ireland, Benelux, South Africa, and Malaysia—and we’re continuing to grow.

At Ekco, how we work matters as much as what we deliver. Our people live by four core values that shape everything we do:

- On It: We take ownership, follow through, and get things done.

- All In : We collaborate, support each other, and commit fully to shared goals.

- Connected: We build trusted relationships with colleagues, clients, and partners.

- Hungry to Grow: We stay curious, keep learning, and push ourselves to the next level.

🏠If these values resonate with you, you’ll feel right at home here.

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Security Architect to lead secure cloud transformation for enterprise and regulated clients, with a particular focus on AWS and strong capability across Microsoft Azure. You will assess complex environments, define security strategies and architectures, and guide the delivery of secure solutions across cloud, hybrid and on-premises platforms.

As a trusted advisor, you will translate risk, regulatory obligations and business objectives into practical security designs, assessments and improvement roadmaps. You will lead client engagements from discovery and pre-sales through design assurance and delivery, provide technical leadership to colleagues, produce clear technical and executive artefacts, and help productise reusable Ekco architecture patterns and cloud security services. This hybrid role is based in Dublin and may include travel to client sites.

• Substantial experience designing and assuring secure enterprise cloud architectures, with deep practical experience in AWS and strong hands-on expertise across Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments.
• Strong knowledge of identity, network, platform, application, data, security operations and resilience controls, including Zero Trust and shared-responsibility principles.
• Hands-on experience with cloud governance, landing zones, multi-account or multi-subscription operating models, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps delivery using tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Bicep, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience applying regulatory and security requirements such as GDPR, NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, CSA and OWASP to cloud environments.
• Ability to conduct security assessments and threat modelling, evaluate technical risk, and produce architecture diagrams, security designs, risk registers, remediation roadmaps and executive reports.
• Strong consulting, team leadership and stakeholder-management skills, including mentoring technical teams, workshop facilitation, pre-sales support and clear communication of complex risk.
• Experience developing reusable architecture patterns, delivery accelerators, or productised cloud security services. A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience is also required.
• Experience implementing cloud security guardrails at scale across complex enterprise or regulated environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container security, software supply-chain controls, AI security, data protection or regulated-industry environments.
• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Security – Specialty or AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, together with Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert or Azure Security Engineer Associate. HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, CISSP, CCSP or CISM would also be valuable; equivalent practical experience is equally valued.
• Professional membership or accreditation with ISC2, ISACA, CiiSec or BCS.

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