Cloud Security Architect (Lead)

The Cloud Security Architect (CSA) will leverage broad technical knowledge of cloud security best practices of key public cloud offerings of providers such AWS, Azure, and GCP to establish secure design patterns, to architect integrations among cloud and/or on-premise infrastructures. This individual must be able to assist in ensuring the security and compliance of the cloud environment based on enterprise cloud security policies, standards, and procedures. The CSA will ensure that solutions operating on the cloud comply with enterprise security requirements in both off-premises and hybrid environment models.

The position will work with Enterprise Architects and Application Dev teams to come up with Security Architecture for applications and enterprise tech capabilities migrating to Cloud.

Minimum Relevant Experience: 4 years

Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree or equivalent


Key Areas of Responsibility:

Partner with Enterprise/Portfolio Architecture team and Business Units development squads to collaboratively develop security architectures/designs leveraging approved patterns that ensure applications migrating from on-premise to Cloud, achieving high standards of security practices and compliance.
Drive the development and adoption of cloud security standards, best practices, and technologies within Enterprise IT infrastructure
Liaise on security-related issues with internal business stakeholders, InfoSec, Enterprise Architecture, and application development squads
Work to develop, enhance and document security architecture, security policies, patterns, procedures, guidelines and standards required to design cloud-based solutions
Educate application, portfolio and solution architects on secure solution design and industry best security practices
Work on assessments of compliance and standards including and not limited to NIST, FedRAMP, FIPS, etc.
Support threat modeling and update application security architecture as needed.
Support application development squads with Security implementations and issues

Must-Haves:

Required qualifications to be successful in this role: 7-10 years of total IT experience with the following must haves:
4+ Years of experience in Cyber Security field as an Information Security Architect or Cloud Security Architect
2-4 years of experience in AWS as a Cloud Security Architect/Engineer and must be certified in at least one of the cloud technologies/infrastructures
Excellent written and communication skills to report, document and communicate security architecture
Excellent coordination skills and must be detail oriented

Nice-to-Haves:

Cloud agnostic security architecture experience a plus
1-2 years of experience in working with NIST assessments of business applications
Container Security experience to protect container workloads during build and run-time
API Security architecture experience with industry standard API Gateways
Security engineering/administration background leveraging SIEM, Network firewalls, host-based security, and security configuration
One or more industry standard security certification such as CISSP, CCSP or relevant GIAC certifications
One or more Cloud Service Providers Security Specialty Certifications such as AWS Security Specialty or Azure AZ-500 Certification
The group of skills related to Security including designing and evaluating security systems, identifying security threats, securing computers, assessing vulnerability, etc.
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Experience identifying and determining levels of risk to an organization's networks and systems using cybersecurity techniques
Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
Skilled in cloud technologies and cloud computing

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