EMEA (Senior) Security Advisor/Architect

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Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) is a business unit within the GCO (Global Cloud Operations) unit in the Customer Value Group Board Area. Enterprise Cloud Services supports customers throughout their cloud transformation and SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud adoption journey (PCE, RISE with SAP). We run the Intelligent Enterprise so it can be an Intelligent Enterprise. Our portfolio of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud Private Cloud Edition (PCE part of RISE with SAP) and SAP Cloud Application Services turns SAP products into a solution-as-a-service on customers’ preferred infrastructure, including Hyperscalers, as one SAP.

In your regional role as EMEA (Senior) Security Advisor/Architect, you will represent ECS Security in front of the customers as a Security Expert/Advisor and explain the overall Cloud Security Framework, our Security Processes, Features, and Services, both in the presales and post-sales phases supporting the CSO office, responsible for the effective and efficient ECS global security strategy, security programs and services.

You will follow the Global CSO office business guidance and strategy but also represent an important input from the market for our overall ECS Security Roadmap.

You will work closely with the regional Presales and Sales teams to drive and help ECS deal closure by helping customers understand how we secure the private cloud and answer/solve complex security technical requirements. You will also collaborate closely with Regional ECS Security Leaders.

What you will do

Act as a main security contact in front of customers in your region – both presales and post-sales phase

Represent ECS CSO office in customer discussion (security engineering, security delivery, security processes, features etc) to support presales architects and sales colleagues

Take initiative to support ECS Security roadmap to better address customer requirements

Collaborate closely with all our ECS security colleagues including ECS Security Leadership to understand the development of the private cloud, challenges and translate those into effective solutions

What you bring

8+ years of overall security experience dealing with big customers and complex security requirements

4+ years of experience architecting security tools and complex projects

Expertise in SAP Technology Stack

Experience with an MSSP model in a public/private cloud environment - shared responsibility with customers

Strong network security and cloud security technical capabilities (Azure, AWS, GCP)

CISSP certification, CCSP/CCSK certification, any SANS certification is nice to have

Customer-facing/public speaking experience

Experience with SAP ABAP applications would be considered a plus

Fluent in English, both written and spoken

Fluency in German would be considered a plus