Cloud Security Architect (Partial remote)

Duties:

• Analyze and design security solutions for applications and infrastructure, and provide expertise and consulting to clients;
• Identify and document information security risks and propose mitigating controls;
• Will be responsible for understanding complex business IT needs, requirements, and projects scopes, with a focus on information security requirements;
• Research, design, and develop new information security controls for clients;
• Assess current IT environments and make recommendations to increase security;
• Assist clients in troubleshooting and resolving information security issues;
• Author project and support documentation and diagrams; and
• Implement security solutions.

Urgent Contract Opportunity for Cloud Security Architect - Multiple Location (Partial remote)

Required Experience:

• Assessed, developed and implemented, operationalized and documented comprehensive security technologies and processes;
• Secure software development, data protection, cryptography, key management, identity and access management (IAM), network security (VPNs) within SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud environments.
• Architected solutions within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other cloud providers and SOA for cloud-based services;
• Worked with cloud security and governance tools, cloud access security brokers (CASBs), and server virtualization technologies;
• Performed security design/architecture reviews, code reviews, and penetration tests of large applications, systems and/or networks;
• Worked on large scale cloud based services (including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and understand security challenges involve in deploying Cloud Applications;
• Created and maintained security policies and procedures, managing the protection of information systems and assets;
• Performed threat modeling and design reviews assessing security implications and requirements introducing new technologies;
• Hand-on experience with multiple security technologies such as Firewalls, Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems, Vulnerability Scanning, WAF, Wireless LAN, NAC, DLP, DDoS Mitigation, WAN security, SIEM, Content Filtering, Cloud Security gateways, Secure Proxies, SSL crypto solutions
• Solid understanding of a range of compliance, regulatory and legal requirements and relevant principles, best practices and standards across multiple industries. Preferred industries: financial services, telecommunications. Examples would include: PCI, SOX, GLBA, CSA, PCI, NIST, ISO, IEEE, FedRAMP, HIPAA and TCG
• Have working knowledge of common and industry standard cloud-native/cloud-friendly authentication mechanisms (OAuth, OpenID, SAML, Ping, Okta, etc) and key management (Safenet, Vormetric, other)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to present materials with detailed technical specs, represent technical viewpoints to diverse audiences and making prudent technical risk decisions.
• Ability to collaborate and work well within a team
• Customer service orientation – an attitude of “yes, here’s how”, instead of “no”
• Flexibility to travel up to 30-50%
• Cloud security and/or architecture related certifications - AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Certified DevOps Engineer would be a plus

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