PwC
Security Risk & Engineering - Enterprise & Cloud Security - Senior Manager
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Leads client-facing enterprise and cloud security engagements across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. Responsibilities include cloud security architecture, control design, risk assessments, vulnerability testing, security reviews, threat monitoring, and coordinating network, endpoint, identity, and cloud infrastructure safeguards. The role translates technical findings into business-aligned recommendations, directs teams through complex challenges, coaches team members, and prioritizes critical risks for client decision-making.
The Opportunity
As a Security Risk & Engineering - Enterprise & Cloud Security - Senior Manager you will lead client-facing cloud security work across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments, helping shape security design, implementation, risk assessment, vulnerability testing, and ongoing threat monitoring within our cybersecurity practice. As a Senior Manager you will bring advanced judgment, influence, and technical depth to guide complex client conversations, direct teams through ambiguity, and develop clear approaches that connect security priorities to business outcomes. In this role at PwC, you will draw on your cloud security knowledge, experience with Cloud Service Providers, and ability to communicate actionable recommendations to support secure transformation and help strengthen the security posture of client environments.
Responsibilities
- Leading enterprise and cloud security engagements that design, implement, and elevate protections across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments
- Advising clients on cloud security architecture, control design, and risk reduction approaches across multiple cloud service providers
- Directing risk assessments, vulnerability testing, and security reviews to identify gaps across cloud-based systems and identity environments
- Translating technical findings into clear recommendations that align security requirements with business and technology priorities
- Coordinating security engineering activities for network, endpoint, and cloud infrastructure safeguards
- Monitoring emerging threats, control weaknesses, and cloud security trends to inform remediation strategies and future-state designs
- Guiding teams through complex security challenges while coaching team members to strengthen delivery quality and technical capability
- Applying sound judgment to prioritize issues, escalate critical risks, and support informed client decisions across large initiatives
What You Must Have
- At least a Bachelor's degree
- At least 7 years of experience
What Sets You Apart
- Preference for at least one of the following fields of study: Business Administration/Management, Computer and Information Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Computer Systems Analysis, Information CyberSecurity, Information Security, Information Technology, Management Information Systems
- Demonstrating cloud security architecture experience across enterprise environments
- Applying systems thinking to cloud risk and control challenges
- Crafting client messages that clarify complex security decisions
- Directing teams through ambiguity while coaching inclusive collaboration
- Modeling professional standards, code of conduct, and independence requirements
The salary range for this position is: $124,000 - $280,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. All hired individuals are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance
As PwC is an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity); age; disability; genetic information (including family medical history); veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or, any other status protected by law.
PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.
Learn more about how we work: https://pwc.to/how-we-work
For only those qualified applicants that are impacted by the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, San Diego County Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable, arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with these laws. At PwC, we recognize that conviction records may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship to responsibilities such as accessing sensitive company or customer information, handling proprietary assets, or collaborating closely with team members. We evaluate these factors thoughtfully to establish a secure and trusted workplace for all.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or the posting is removed, unless otherwise set forth on the following webpage. Please visit this link for information about anticipated application deadlines: https://pwc.to/us-application-deadlines
As a Security Risk & Engineering - Enterprise & Cloud Security - Senior Manager you will lead client-facing cloud security work across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments, helping shape security design, implementation, risk assessment, vulnerability testing, and ongoing threat monitoring within our cybersecurity practice. As a Senior Manager you will bring advanced judgment, influence, and technical depth to guide complex client conversations, direct teams through ambiguity, and develop clear approaches that connect security priorities to business outcomes. In this role at PwC, you will draw on your cloud security knowledge, experience with Cloud Service Providers, and ability to communicate actionable recommendations to support secure transformation and help strengthen the security posture of client environments.
Responsibilities
- Leading enterprise and cloud security engagements that design, implement, and elevate protections across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments
- Advising clients on cloud security architecture, control design, and risk reduction approaches across multiple cloud service providers
- Directing risk assessments, vulnerability testing, and security reviews to identify gaps across cloud-based systems and identity environments
- Translating technical findings into clear recommendations that align security requirements with business and technology priorities
- Coordinating security engineering activities for network, endpoint, and cloud infrastructure safeguards
- Monitoring emerging threats, control weaknesses, and cloud security trends to inform remediation strategies and future-state designs
- Guiding teams through complex security challenges while coaching team members to strengthen delivery quality and technical capability
- Applying sound judgment to prioritize issues, escalate critical risks, and support informed client decisions across large initiatives
What You Must Have
- At least a Bachelor's degree
- At least 7 years of experience
What Sets You Apart
- Preference for at least one of the following fields of study: Business Administration/Management, Computer and Information Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Computer Systems Analysis, Information CyberSecurity, Information Security, Information Technology, Management Information Systems
- Demonstrating cloud security architecture experience across enterprise environments
- Applying systems thinking to cloud risk and control challenges
- Crafting client messages that clarify complex security decisions
- Directing teams through ambiguity while coaching inclusive collaboration
- Modeling professional standards, code of conduct, and independence requirements
The salary range for this position is: $124,000 - $280,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. All hired individuals are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance
As PwC is an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity); age; disability; genetic information (including family medical history); veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or, any other status protected by law.
PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.
Learn more about how we work: https://pwc.to/how-we-work
For only those qualified applicants that are impacted by the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, San Diego County Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable, arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with these laws. At PwC, we recognize that conviction records may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship to responsibilities such as accessing sensitive company or customer information, handling proprietary assets, or collaborating closely with team members. We evaluate these factors thoughtfully to establish a secure and trusted workplace for all.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or the posting is removed, unless otherwise set forth on the following webpage. Please visit this link for information about anticipated application deadlines: https://pwc.to/us-application-deadlines
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