Cloud Security Architect
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Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Role Purpose
The Cloud Security Architect plays a pivotal role in defining and implementing strategic cybersecurity capabilities across one or more security domains. This includes:
- Contributing to target architecture and roadmaps.
- Embedding security by design and privacy by design into all projects.
- Conducting reviews and governance of technology architecture.
- Collaborating with the CISO and Infrastructure teams to design security solutions aligned with Client standards.
- Delivering security solutions that support the overall architecture journey and align with Clients IT strategy.
- Ensuring compliance with standards design approaches and governance.
Key Responsibilities:Solutions & Assurance:
- Design solutions that meet Clients standards for availability security resilience and performance.
- Provide design options with cost-benefit-risk analysis to support investment decisions.
- Collaborate with product owners architects and platform teams to balance long-term and short-term goals.
- Ensure integrity of end-to-end solutions including transitional states.
- Estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints to meet business outcomes.
- Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Record and manage solution debt during transition phases.
- Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Participate in post-implementation reviews to improve future designs.
Technical Leadership:
- Stay current with technological developments in digital and integration areas.
- Recommend tools frameworks and platforms for solution development and deployment.
- Define and enforce architectural best practices and standards.
- Conduct architecture reviews for compliance.
- Produce and peer-review design artefacts for service security architecture and engineering.
- Mentor and train junior team members.
Design Community Engagement:
- Contribute to the Solution Architecture community across Client Group.
- Lead or participate in initiatives to enhance Clients design approach.
- Develop technical skills to support Clients adoption of emerging technologies.
Problem Solving & Change Management:
- Solve project-based technical problems within policy and process guidelines.
- Recommend design solutions in response to project challenges.
- Take initiative in adapting to change and recommending improvements.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement:Internal Collaboration -
- Build effective relationships with:
- Project Managers
- Platform Managers and Specialists
- Platform Architects and Designers
External Interaction
- Liaise with suppliers and technology sources to maintain up-to-date specialist knowledge.
Required Skills & Capabilities
- Design and oversee security solutions for AWS environments.
- Expertise in AWS security services (Security Hub Config Macie GuardDuty IAM).
- Experience with endpoint security tools (CrowdStrike Falcon Complete Insight Prevent).
- Certifications preferred: AWS Certified Security Specialty CISSP CCSP.
- Knowledge of application security using Dynatrace.
- Experience with IAM solutions (Intra ID OKTA for B2B authentication).
- Hands-on experience with security infrastructure (firewalls IPS WAFs SIEM endpoint protection).
- Familiarity with vulnerability management tools.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native and modern application architecture.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
- Ability to balance strategic direction with tactical execution.
- Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills.
Key Skills
- APIs
- Pegasystems
- Spring
- SOAP
- .NET
- Hybris
- Solution Architecture
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Adobe Experience Manager
- J2EE
- Java
- Oracle
