Director, Cloud Security Architect - TalentFish LLC

Job Title: Director, Cloud Security Architecture
Primary Location: Chicago IL, Boston MA, Atlanta GA, Bentonville AR
Position Type: Full-Time Direct Hire (Hybrid)

Overview
TalentFish is casting a line for Director of Cloud Security Architecture. This is a direct hire hybrid role that can be performed in Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, or Bentonville locations.

This is a new role due to company growth. Our client is a market leading global midcap company. The ideal candidate will currently be acting as a Manager or Senior Manager and looking to move into the role of Director.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on security architecture, implementation and design experience is required.
• Experience designing globally scalable Cloud security solutions.
• Cloud Security and working knowledge of MS Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. The ideal candidate will be a true Cloud Security Architect with leadership skills and an agnostic technologist with experience working across various technologies.
• Experience delivering large and complex programs where you own the business or technical vision, collaborating with large cross-functional teams, securing commitments on deliverables, and unblocking teams to land business impact.
• Experience building and managing teams and knowledge of enterprise Information Security (Perimeter Security, Identity Management and Governance, Privileged Account Management (PAM), Compliance, Penetration Testing, Encryption, Cloud Security, Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, etc.).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail.
• Strong executive reporting and narrative-based presentation skills.
• Hands-on experience in one of more of the following is ideal:Security Engineering, IAM, Cloud Security, Data Security, Network Security, Encryption, Privileged Access Management, Federation Authentication/SSO. (NOTE:This is not a hands-on role however the right person for the role will have hands-on technical experience and abilities)
• Any of the following certifications nice to have:Azure Certifications Solutions Architect, AWS Security Specialty, GCP Certifications Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Security Engineer, Security Engineer Certifications CISSP, CompTIA Security+, Certifications in related areas (e.g. SANS, OSCP, CEH).

What You'll Do. (Skills Used in this Position)

• Implement corporate cybersecurity strategy by architecting, engineering, deploying, and operating technical security controls as they related to virtual machines, storage, key vault, database services infrastructures in the Cloud.
• Build and develop the Cloud Security Architecture team.
• Engineer and operate solutions that protect Cloud resources from internal and external threats by providing additional preventative, detective, and hardening controls and by enabling Real Time endpoint detection and response capabilities.
• Automate security hardening tasks in Cloud to ensure gaps are identified and addressed quickly with our standards.
• Act as Subject Matter Expert focused on multiple technologies within the Security domains (Security Engineering, IAM, Cloud Security, Data Security, Network Security, Encryption, Privileged Access Management, Federation etc.).
• Establish a strategic security architecture vision, including standards and frameworks for medium to large enterprises.
• Review and analysis of security logs from a wide variety of sources.
• Coordinate and perform security audits and vulnerability assessments to assess internal security procedures and compliance requirements.
• Work with relevant internal IT Application, Infrastructure, Network and Support teams to ensure that security controls are implemented at all significant layers, test those controls and perform gap analysis to find areas of improvement.
• Perform testing to evaluate new products for network and system security controls.
• Participate in the development of the security roadmap and communicate the Technology Security vision to senior management and technical departments.
• Coordinates with project team on the implementation, upgrade and maintenance of security solutions.

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