Avanade India
Security Architect — Microsoft Security Platform

Practice: Cyber Security, Avanade India
Location: Bengaluru / Delhi NCR / Mumbai, India (Hybrid)
Experience: 14–18 years in the cyber security domain, with deep, current, hands-on architecture experience across the Microsoft security platform — Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, Purview, Entra ID and Intune
Role Summary
Avanade India’s Cyber Security practice is looking for a Security Architect with genuine depth across the full Microsoft security estate. This is a senior, client-facing role for someone who can hold a security conversation with a CISO in the morning, defend a Sentinel data architecture with a SOC team in the afternoon, and be equally credible in both rooms.
The emphasis is on breadth across the Microsoft security platform combined with real depth in each pillar — threat protection, cloud security, identity, data security and compliance — and the ability to design them as one integrated architecture rather than a set of separately deployed products.



You will lead security architecture on client engagements, shape pursuits as the security SME, and build the standards, IP and skilling that the practice runs on.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end security architecture for client engagements — target-state security architecture, Zero Trust design, control mapping and multi-year security roadmaps grounded in the client’s risk profile and regulatory context.
- Architect and lead Microsoft Sentinel implementations: workspace and tenant design, ingestion strategy, log tiering and cost optimisation, detection engineering in KQL, UEBA, SOAR playbooks and threat intelligence integration.
- Lead migrations from legacy SIEM platforms (Splunk, QRadar, ArcSight and similar) to Microsoft Sentinel — content and use-case migration, parallel running, validation and decommissioning.
- Design across Microsoft Defender XDR — Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity, Defender for Office 365 and Defender for

📌 Security Architect — Microsoft Security Platform (Bengaluru)
🏢 Avanade
📍 Bengaluru