Cloud Security Architect Job at Saxon Global in Indianapolis

Description

This technical role develops and drives our Cloud Platform Security Architecture and Strategy patterns to support Enterprise Security solutions, collaborating with developers and DevOps engineers to ensure business and IT alignment with Security requirements standards. This position will also entail mentoring other teams and providing SME-level guidance, clearly communicating technical requirements to the implementation teams, and supporting the efforts to secure healthcare solutions across our Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).

Essential duties can include but are not limited to:

• Provide security focused solution guidance to business and IT partners and participate in broader information security governance activities.
• Work with business units to translate business strategy into discrete capabilities and helps to identify security capability gaps in systems.
• Provide strategic and tactical security control recommendations, operational security blueprints and roadmaps, reference architectures for security patterns, and general security technology / application assessments.
• Collaborate with Enterprise development teams and ensure that the implementation of components (e.g., domain architecture, solution architecture, and technical architecture) aligns with architecture strategies.
• Participate in the Cloud Governance processes and community of practice.
• Recommend changes and updates to cloud security governance strategy based on NIST, regulatory and evolving threats drivers.
• Propose opportunities to improve security outcomes and reduce risks based on targeted or continuous assessments.
• Define, communicate, and drive security controls matrix. Monitor compliance to Enterprise-level security standards, documenting requirements through threat modeling and other artifacts.
• Design, analyze, and implement testing plans to ensure security guardrails cannot be compromised.
• Establish strategic vendor relationships for security products and services; collaborate on Enterprise-wide security incident response plans and strategies that includes Integration with business, compliance, privacy, and legal constituents and requirements.

Minimum Requirements:

• BS/BA in Information Technology or related field of study and a minimum of 8 years of experience in systems administration and security aspects of information systems, access management and network security technologies, Cloud Security architecture, systems architecture, experience with multiple technical and business disciplines required; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cloud Security Certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure): Professional Cloud Architect/ Solutions Architect, Professional Cloud Network Engineer/ Advanced Networking, Professional Cloud Security Engineer/ AWS Certified Security - Specialty, Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, etc. CISSP preferred as well, along with CCSP and other advanced technical security certifications.
• Experience in centralized controls and Cloud Security governance, including but not limited to Organization/Security policies, Assured Workloads and Federated Workloads concepts, Security Hub/ Security Command Center Premium/ Security Center, and centralized governance design strategies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines and processes, and automation, with a specific focus on Security solutions.
• Understanding of Cloud infrastructure environments and the challenges associated with Enterprise integration, with demonstrated ability to grasp and contribute to big-picture strategy.
• Experience in providing clear direction to Cloud Engineers, with a solid understanding and ability to communicate how the security architecture strategy and designs would translate to engineering and operational security-focused tasks.

Required Skills : -Strong knowledge across multiple CSPs (AWS, Azure, and GCP) -Strong knowledge in security controls, tooling, etc. - all things security -Strong communication -Ability to make security recommendations -Knowledge of IaC (Terraform, CDK, etc.) -Knowledge of CI/CD process (does not need to build pipelines)
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :Yes
Exclusive to Apex :Yes
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Architecture/Design
Master Job Title :Cloud: Infrastructure Architect
Branch Code :Indianapolis