Job Title: Sr Cybersecurity Architect Duration: 6 months Location: Remote
Job Summary:
The Senior Cybersecurity Architect serves the company as an advisor on best practices and is responsible for designing and effectively implementing enterprise security strategies, architectures and solutions that guide IT security direction.
They are accountable for the security architecture across a variety of applications or domains and assigned to project/initiatives of large size, complexity and risk.
The Senior Cybersecurity Architect develops actionable security blueprints, principles, models, designs, standards and guidelines to ensure enterprise information technology architecture is consistent, usable, secure and adds value to the business.
Interacts with vendors, IT and business area contacts to facilitate flexible, scalable and cost effective security solutions. Also provides technical guidance to less experienced Security Architects.
Essential Functions:
The essential functions listed represent the major duties of this role, additional duties may be assigned.
Accountable for adhering to enterprise architecture standards, ensuring security technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to enterprise architecture strategy-setting.
Responsible for design and implementation of security strategy, architecture and platforms. Responsible for enterprise due-diligence activities including security monitoring and security metrics to evaluate effectiveness of the enterprise security program and established controls.
Responsible for ensuring necessary security controls are part of technical designs.
Participates in security governance processes.
Participates in IT security efforts across all business areas and client groups.
Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for issue resolution.
Serves as security architecture subject matter expert to business areas, project teams and vendors to apply and execute appropriate use of technology solutions and lead efforts to examine technology vision, opportunities and challenges.
Builds consensus around principles of security architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles.
Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options.
Provides technical guidance to less experienced Security Architects.
Participates on project teams contributing input with regard to security standards and the impact to technology.
Investigates and reports on security threats and incidents.
Conducts post-event reviews of security incidents.
Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and architecture blue prints.
Evaluates strengths and flaws in Security Architecture designs including performance, confidentiality, integrity, availability, access and total cost of ownership.
Facilitates project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions.
Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects. Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise.
Establishes and maintains relationships with IT and business area partners to evaluate designs and controls.
Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience. Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures.
Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs. Provides guidance on security solutions and prepares benchmarking reports and presentations.
Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness and value delivered to customers.
Required Work Experience
5+ years related work experience (work experience as an Architect working on progressively complex IT projects)
Required Education
Related Bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience in IT related field
Required Licenses and Certifications
CISSP - Cert Information Systems Security Prof (within 180 Days if converted to FTE)
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
6+ years of security architecture experience within AWS and/or Azure
2+ years of hands-on experience within AWS and/or Azure
Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Preferred
AWS / Azure Security Certifications Preferred
Ability to create architecture diagrams from scratch
Ability to review architecture diagrams and provide security consultation
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About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation. At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $58.00/hr.
