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Title:  Cloud Security Architect
Hiring Organization: Connexion Systems & Engineering

• Duration: Temp to Perm
• Pay rate: $105-125/hr
• Job Location: Remote (CA)
• Job# 15378

• Demonstrates experience performing security design review of distributed systems and APIs
• Served as a cloud security SME for high visibility cloud initiatives
• Created security reference architecture for multi-tenant cloud initiatives
• Detailed knowledge of cloud computing operations (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS) and how to secure them
• Translated and applied compliance and security requirements into solutions
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with engineers to identify tradeoffs of different solutions and recommend the ideal design to meet security requirements
• Experience in secure development especially in large, complex system environments
• Deep understanding and experience securing CI/CD pipelines
• Strong grasp of the shared responsibility model of cloud computing
• Product security background preferred

• Responsible for the end-to-end security architecture for cloud solutions involving multiple public cloud stacks (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP) and internal cloud platforms
• Responsible for delivering the detailed security architecture and design artifacts
• Works closely with the security and business domain architects to ensure that platform specific solutions meet the needs of all functional, security requirements and architecture design
• Communicates best practices and lessons learned and continuously updates the technical security architecture based on changing technologies in collaboration with other domains security architects
• Recommends and designs the implementation of standards, tools, and methodologies
• Assists with project level of effort estimations
• Recommends and participates in ‘Proof of Concept’ meetings required to investigate technical possibilities to meet business needs
• Develops security strategy and roadmaps to create technical solutions
• Researches and keeps current on latest cloud security design patterns and cloud products
• Ability to communicate and work seamlessly in a global team
• Works with multiple multi-functional teams to support releases of varying size, complexity, and duration

• Deep knowledge of cloud operational models and secure SaaS/PaaS/IaaS architectures in a world of containerized microservices
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes Experience in applying security to cloud technologies (Data Encryption, Securing CI/CD pipeline, Secure Infrastructure as Code, Container Security, IAM)
• Knowledge of primary Azure services or AWS/GCP analogues (Virtual machines/EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53/DNS, S3/Blob storage, Lambda/Functions, EKS/AKS) and IAM implementation Expertise in cloud architecture and security fundamentals including containers, software-defined networks, high availability design, multi-cloud , and serverless compute
• Knowledge of serverless computing/functions and how to protect them
• Hands on experience in driving end to end security for cloud product - SAST, DAST, IAST, OSS scanning, security unit testing, and pen testing
• Working experience in implementing security tooling in public cloud environment - SIEM, vulnerability and threat management, IDS, container workload protection, DLP, etc.
• Thorough hands-on experience with CSPM and CWPP tools (ie: Prisma Cloud) Expert in threat modeling and secure architecture review
• 10+ years total experience and 4+ years in Cloud Security
• Presenting security risks to wide audience including senior management
• Familiarity with BeyondCorp or similar zero trust security models

• Experience designing and building security services in a SecDevOps cloud operations model
• Knowledge of compliance requirements for industry standard certifications such as PCI DSS, SOC2, HIPAA, ISO-27001, FedRAMP
• OWASP Top 10 web application security risks and remediations
• TOGAF certification

 
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