Security Architect - US Remote - PM

Security Architect

We are looking for a Security Architect to be responsible for the security design, code review, security testing, and implementation of security capabilities within the core product applications. The Security Architect's responsibilities include reviewing our current security measures, identifying areas of strength and weakness, recommending enhancements, assisting with compliance activities, and responding promptly to security incidents. You will also be responsible for conducting regular system tests and providing recommendations to teams for monitoring the security of their applications.

To be a successful Security Architect, you should be experienced in application security and risk assessment, with a strong understanding of security protocols, authentication and authorization patterns, cloud infrastructure security, and application security, both build time and runtime. You should also possess strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Security Architect Job Responsibilities:

• A thorough understanding of the organization's technology and IT systems.
• Planning, researching, and designing secure application architectures and CI/CD pipelines
• Developing, reviewing, and collaborating on the configuration of cloud account configuration, network isolation, security groups, access policies, network policies, VPNs, and overall compute platform security, including both host-based and container-based workloads.
• Integrating identity management systems, digital certificates, and secrets management with application workloads.
• Assessing security capabilities, evaluating tools and approaches, and making recommendations as part of the application security roadmap that is fed into team backlogs
• Reviewing vulnerabilities with teams and suggesting strategies and tactics for remediation.
• Validating security implementations and participating in remediation and risk acceptance efforts.
• Establishing disaster recovery procedures and conducting security breach drills.
• Responding quickly and effectively to all security incidents and providing post-event analyses.
• Guiding the overall security community, cultivating a sense of security awareness, and arranging for continuous education.
• Remaining up to date with the latest trends, standards, and products.

Security Architect Requirements:

• A bachelor's or associate's degree in IT, computer science, or equal experience.
• 5-10 years or more of experience in application development and
• Experience with AWS, including EKS, multi-account setups, GuardDuty, KMS, Config, SSM, CloudFront, Firewall Manager, Shield, Network Firewall, WAF, IAM, CloudTrail, Security Hub, Secrets Manager, Inspector, Global Accelerator, ELB, EC2, Athena
• A strong working knowledge of current application and infrastructure risks, secure application design, and operating systems including both Windows and Linux experience
• Excellent teaching, problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of C-Sharp, JavaScript, Ruby, NodeJS, Go, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Python, bash, and SQL are

This is a 12 month full time contract work,