Principal Security Architect

AMD CyberSec; Dubai; On-site; AED 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD CyberSec in Dubai invites a Principal Security Architect to lead security engineering across the client software development lifecycle, ensuring secure design and architecture and driving remediation with engineering teams.

You will mentor others, brief executive leadership, and work with external vendors to implement security solutions while advancing threat modeling, IAM, cryptography, and container security.

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing and implementing security in architecture and code.
• 10+ years with product security remediation for externally identified threats.
• Experience with threat modeling and mitigating authentication, authorization, network segmentation, encryption, container config.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security controls (IAM, KMS, VPC, Security Groups, AWS Inspector, GuardDuty, SCPs).
• Experience with MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, CVSS, CWE.
• Proficiency in authentication/authorization, identity and access management, OAuth/OpenID Connect.
• Embedded software security knowledge; cryptography and PKI.
• Solid TCP/IP understanding.
• Proven leadership, written/oral communication.

Responsibilities

• Own security engineering requirements and secure design reviews.
• Drive root-cause analyses to prevent post-release risks.
• Guide external technology providers and security vendors.
• Collaborate with executives and engineering partners to align security goals.
• Elevate security capabilities and reduce attack surface across platforms.
• Mentor teams and shape training curriculum for security awareness.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security architecture leadership

Cloud security controls

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive briefing

Tools

Docker

ECS

Kubernetes

Container security

Java

C/C++

Python

JavaScript

PowerShell

PKI

Job description

About The Role

Engage in the client Software Development Lifecycle to collaboratively ensure new products, platforms, and technologies meet or exceed security engineering requirements;

Engage in the client Software Development Lifecycle to collaboratively ensure new products, platforms, and technologies meet or exceed security engineering requirements;

Create formal threat models to enumerate and mitigate potential security risks in proposed architecture and designs;

Partner with Information Security GRC counterparts to author security requirements and standards;

Brief executive leaders on potential emergent threats and ongoing efforts to proactively address potential cyber security risks;

Work with platform and security engineering leadership to interactively improve

Enhance and mature the security engineering training curriculum in partnership with Security Awareness and Training owners;

Act as domain specialist across Peloton’s security solutions and technology stack;

Identify strategic investments and initiatives that lower the transactional cost of designing and implementing secure platform solutions and reduce the likelihood of potential cyber security attacks;

Influence the security strategy by improving the collective strength of the security team and articulating the capabilities needed to optimally manage cyber-attack risk;

Requirements

10+ years of hands-on experience in working with engineering teams on design and implementation of security best practices in architecture and code.

10+ years of experience working with product security teams to drive engineering remediation to externally identified threats and vulnerabilities.

7+ years of experience with creating threat models and working with teams to identify and remediate potential security gaps related to authentication, authorization, network segmentation, encryption, container configuration, bastion host setup, etc.

Extensive experience and strong understanding of cloud security controls including but not limited to such as IAM, KMS, VPC, Security Groups, AWS Inspector, Guard Duty and SCPs.

Knowledge and Hands on Skills with Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, and Container Security.

Extensive understanding MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, CVSS and CWE criteria, enumeration and scoring.

Broad security-related domain knowledge with authentication and authorization, identity and access management, data protection, OAuth/Open ID connect, Web security.

Extensive experience with embedded software development and architectures, security protocols, applied cryptography and security standards

Deep understanding of the TCP/IP protocol stack and major protocols.

Working knowledge of one or more general purpose programming/script languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell.

Excellent relationship building skills across diverse cross-functional teams.

Exceptional written/oral communication skills.

Good cryptography knowledge and implementation expertise with hands on experience in PKI – SSL, TLS certificate management

Exceptional bias for action and ownership.

Humble, hardworking, forward-thinking and embodies a “hands on” leadership mindset.

Job Category: Architect

Requirements

The Principal Security Architect will work with external technology providers and security vendors. They will evaluate and assess the applicability of various solutions to determine their capability to mitigate potential security risks. They will work closely with partner teams to integrate solutions that are determined necessary.

The role plays a critical function in constantly evolving clients security development lifecycle. It owns the development of security engineering requirements and secure design and architecture review consultation. In coordination with Security Response Engineering, the Principal Platform Security Architect drives the root cause analysis to ensure critical security risks and design flaws discovered post release never manifest in future iterations of Peloton’s products and services.

The ideal candidate is a proven engineering leader that has both exemplary engineering and communication skills. They have extensive experience collaborating with internal engineering partners and briefing Executive Leadership. They are a proven security technology and methodology expert that scales through enabling other engineering partners to make the right security design decisions and trade-offs.

About The Company

At AMD, we are dedicated to safeguarding our client against cyber threats. We recognize the distinct requirements and vulnerabilities of each enterprise, which is why we offer tailor-made solutions to shield your data and assets effectively.

Our collaborative approach involves working closely with clients to devise a holistic cybersecurity strategy that harmonizes with their specific business objectives.