Enterprise Cloud Security Architect
Our client is a major US Airline. When they first took flight in February 2000, it was founded on the idea of bringing humanity back to air travel. Twenty years later, they still put people at the center of everything they do as they hope to inspire humanity.
But before they even had aircraft to fly, their founders chose five values to guide by who they are, what they stand for and what they will never compromise on. Their values of safety, caring, integrity, passion and fun inspire culture and guide the decisions that they make every day.
For this airline, we are looking to hire an Enterprise Cloud Security Architect, who can be the hands-on person to help implement, administer and manage a sophisticated collection of technical tools to protect the integrity of their systems in a contract-to-hire position.
The Enterprise Cloud Security Architect is a hands-on team player who provides technical security guidance and leadership with the design, installation, operation, service and maintenance of a variety of information systems across a multi-cloud environment. This individual understands IT Enterprise Architecture and works with the enterprise architects to ensure that security standards are created and implemented into Enterprise Architecture frameworks. This role identifies security gaps, develops controls, determines functional and non-functional security requirements and designs solutions that meet business objectives while complying with security standards to achieve Security-by-Design principles.
Essential Responsibilities
- Leads the development of a strategic cloud security architecture vision, including standards and frameworks.
- Create security strategies to improve controls and architecture for critical security infrastructure including endpoints, mobile devices, authentication and authorization, logging, and threat detection.
- Provide subject matter expertise on system, application, database and network security.
- Security harden Azure, Google Cloud Platform, AWS Identity as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) infrastructure.
- Assist DevOps teams with pipeline deployments.
- Enabling and facilitating Proof of Concepts.
- Work with the appropriate teams to respond to incidents and to take charge when needed.
- Migrate on-premises workloads to the cloud.
- Proactively adopt new cloud infrastructure and technologies.
- Certificate Management.
- Share your knowledge and expertise with junior team members, fostering a collaborative and learning-oriented environment.
- Participates in Project Management activities and the enterprise architecture reviews to drive overall technology direction.
Minimum Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor s degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related field; or significant previous related work experience
- Four (4) years of Identity and Access Management, with a solid grasp of concepts like authentication, authorization, multi-factor authentication, and federation
- Four (4) of years information security experience
- Three (3) years or more experience with architecting solutions involving one or more cloud service providers AWS (preferred), Microsoft Azure, etc.
Preferred Experience and Qualifications
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certified (or equivalent), Cloud competency certifications to supplement experience
- Hands-on expertise operating in an AWS (preferred) or Azure environment, including architecture and security capabilities in the cloud
- Knowledge of web application security, browser security models, and application security vulnerabilities such as the OWASP Top Ten
- Deep understanding of network attacks, DDoS, Phishing, email protocols/security/spam, encryption, authentication, logging and log analysis, IP and device reputation, and security rules and policies
- High degree of skill and knowledge in managing and participating in incident response, Intrusion Prevention Systems, Intrusion Detection Systems, SEIM, Endpoint security solutions
- Any experience in building business applications for the aviation industry
- A strong working knowledge of current IT risks, security implementations, and computer operating and software programs
- Knowledge of network applications and services expertise in the purpose of the application or service, common usage, secure configurations, and threats or attacks against the application or service, as well as mitigation strategies
- Any experience in building business applications for the aviation industry
This is a contract-to-hire position with a high likelihood of conversion in either 6 or 9 months. On conversion, the salary will be up to $140k/yr with incredible travel related benefits, as well as solid traditional benefits.
During the contract period, the initial hourly rate (as 1099) will be based on level of experience and fit complementary to the starting salary. If you would prefer to be a W2 hourly employee, or full time salaried employee during the contract period, we can discuss compensation.
This is a 100% remote position - but our client prefers only candidates on Eastern Standard Time. That being said, the client is located in the New York City area, and the occasional trip to NYC may be necessary in the future.
If this sounds like you, please respond with your resume and compensation requirements as soon as possible. Please no agencies.
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