What are we looking for We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Security Architect to join our team. This role is crucial in defining and driving our security roadmap, designing robust security solutions across on-premises and cloud environments, and ensuring the continuous enhancement of our security posture to meet evolving threats and business requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborate with Information Security and IT Leadership to define the security roadmap and drive strategic initiatives.
Design, engineer, and implement security solutions that adhere to a defense-in-depth strategy while meeting business requirements and processes.
Periodically review existing security solutions to identify opportunities for improvement, enhancing security capabilities and adding value to the enterprise.
Assist in designing security elements for on-premises compute, storage, and network infrastructure services.
Contribute to the design of security elements for cloud infrastructure and platform services within Microsoft Azure.
Work with the Information Security department to design technical security controls that enforce security policies.
Support project managers during project planning and execution phases, creating comprehensive documentation for handover to operations teams.
Provide regular updates on project tasks and non-project assignments.
Support the Security Operations team in investigating major security incidents.
Deliver Level 4 (L4) technical support for escalated major incidents and security incidents to restore production services.
Stay current on emerging threats, security trends, and risk mitigation strategies, providing recommendations to the Security Operations team as needed.
Create detailed Technical Design Documents and other required documentation.
Train Security Operations team members on new security solutions relevant to their roles.
Collaborate effectively with multi-cultural teams across different time zones.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in information systems or equivalent.
Proven experience architecting and designing security solutions in on-premises enterprise environments that provide technical controls to meet security policy requirements.
Demonstrated experience securing Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure and platform services.
Experience with log analytics solutions such as Splunk or Azure Log Analytics.
Expertise in securing enterprise and globally distributed networks, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, DDoS protections, encryption tools/protocols, and privilege access management systems.
Familiarity with vulnerability management systems such as Rapid7 or Nessus.
Knowledge of data in-transit and data-at-rest encryption solutions and key management solutions.
Understanding of advanced endpoint protection solutions for zero-day defense against threats.
Strong consultative and problem-solving skills at a cross-functional level.
Ability to quickly learn, self-start, and work both independently and as part of a team.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Current security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CCSP) are highly desired.