Security Architect

Systems Engineering Services is seeking a Security Architect to work remotely in MST/CST Time Zones.

Top 5 Technical Skills:

1. Extensive experience designing & building secure cloud-native solutions, especially Amazon Web Services (AWS)
2. Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles & experience reviewing infrastructure configs/changes (Cloud Formation & Terraform)
3. Containers, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, RESTful/gRPC APIs
4. Strong foundation in cybersecurity landscape, especially in identity & access management, network access control and secure configuration management

Top 3 Soft Skills:

1. Strong ability to own your work
2. Strong communications verbal and written, presenting to executives
3. Strong solutioning mindset

Skills and Experience Baseline

• Ability to collaborate & communicate effectively with technical & non-technical teams
• Extensive experience designing & building secure cloud-native solutions, especially in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Ability to partner with multiple stakeholders to derive accurate threat models for new/existing systems and reduce information security risk on systems
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles & experience reviewing infrastructure configurations/changes in this format (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.)
• Strong technical foundations in modern application/microservice architectures & related technologies (e.g., Containers, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, RESTful/gRPC APIs, etc.)
• Understanding of CI/CD & Secure Development processes & tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git, etc.)
• Strong foundation in cybersecurity landscape, especially in identity & access management, network access control and secure configuration management

The Work
You will work with our team of Architects to craft secure design patterns, perform security assessments, and review system designs using a risk-based, threat-modeling approach. The Security Architect will have the following core responsibilities:

• Partner with business and technology teams to define security designs that meet security requirements and enable business objectives
• Create, maintain and document security architectures & design patterns to be used by technology teams
• Develop relationships, repeatable processes, and resources to usher security champions in the company
• Perform threat-modeling as required to substantiate the recommendations & designs
• Participate in the development and maintenance of security policy, standards & reference materials
• Review and contribute to infrastructure-as-code representations of architecture changes and designs

Jake Lutman

Technical Recruiter

Systems Engineering Services