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.
