Senior Security Consultant - Cloud & AI Security

About the Role 

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Security Consultant Cloud & AI Security to provide senior consulting and technical leadership across

our cybersecurity practices.

The person will be expected to operate as a senior subject-matter expert for Cloud & AI security — leading complex client engagements, providing direction to consulting teams, reviewing critical deliverables, resolving escalations, developing people, supporting business development and ensuring consistently high-quality outcomes for clients.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience in cybersecurity consulting, excellent stakeholder management skills and the maturity to operate with both technical depth (in at least 2 cloud environments) and business understanding.

Key Responsibilities      

1. Practice & Delivery Leadership

• Lead complex consulting and advisory engagements from inception through delivery.
• Provide technical and consulting directions to teams across multiple engagements.
• Review and provide quality assurance for critical client deliverables, assessments, reports and recommendations.
• Ensure projects are delivered within agreed scope, timelines, quality and commercial commitments.
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex delivery, technical and client issues.
• Establish and continuously improve delivery methodologies, assessment approaches and delivery standards.
• Maintain overall visibility of project portfolio, delivery risks, resource requirements and priorities.
• Mentor and develop consultants and senior consultants, strengthening the technical and consulting capabilities of the team
• Compliance, risk management, assurance & audit, privacy, HITRUST, SOC audit and payment security, making broad cybersecurity exposure particularly relevant for this position

2. Practice Growth & Innovation

• Identify opportunities to improve delivery through technology, automation and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Drive adoption of automation and continuous compliance practices.
• Keep the practice aligned with evolving cybersecurity regulations, frameworks and industry expectations.
• Identify emerging services and capabilities that can strengthen Network Intelligence's market proposition.
• Work closely with other cybersecurity practices to develop integrated cybersecurity solutions.
• Understand how emerging technologies, particularly cloud adoption and AI, are changing cybersecurity risk, governance and compliance requirements.
• Contribute to the development of new services, methodologies, frameworks and consulting accelerators.

3. Client & Executive Stakeholder Management

• Establish and maintain trusted relationships with client stakeholders.
• Lead discussions with CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, Risk Heads, Compliance Heads, Internal Audit, Information Security and senior management.
• Lead client workshops, risk discussions, assessment meetings and executive presentations.
• Understand the client's business and technology environment and translate cybersecurity requirements into practical and business-aligned recommendations.
• Provide advisory considering risks arising from cloud environments, AI adoption and other emerging technologies.
• Handle difficult client conversations and escalations with maturity and professionalism.

4. Pre-Sales & Business Development

• Partner with Sales on opportunities, client discovery and solution discussions.
• Provide technical and consulting inputs for proposals, RFP/RFQ responses, Statements of Work and project estimations.
• Lead technical presentations, workshops and solution discussions with prospective clients.
• Identify opportunities for account expansion and development of new cybersecurity services.
• Contribute to the development of new offerings and consulting capabilities.

Mandatory Knowledge & Technical Exposure

The candidate must have strong and demonstrable knowledge of Cybersecurity and should also possess an excellent working understanding of:

• Cloud Security – cloud security principles, risks, governance, controls, shared responsibility models and compliance considerations across cloud environments.
• AI Security – key security and governance risks associated with AI/ML, AI adoption, data protection, model risks and emerging AI regulatory requirements.
• The ability to evaluate Cloud and AI-related risks from a GRC, governance, risk and compliance perspective.

Cloud Security and AI Security knowledge is mandatory for this role.

Preferred Certifications

CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor / Lead Implementer, ISO 22301, PCI DSS, HITRUST, CCSP, AZ500/SC500, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or other relevant cybersecurity / GRC certifications would be an advantage.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 10–15 years of relevant experience in Cybersecurity , Information Security, Risk, Compliance, Audit or Cybersecurity Consulting.
• Minimum 3–5 years of experience in a team leadership, practice leadership or senior engagement leadership role.
• Demonstrable understanding of Cloud Security and AI Security.
• Strong experience managing multiple client engagements simultaneously.
• Proven experience managing and mentoring consulting teams.
• Strong client-facing and stakeholder management experience.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity governance, risk management and compliance.
• Excellent report-writing and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
• Ability to independently manage priorities, escalations and complex client situations

Preferred candidate profile