Security Architect - FinTech

SES; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

SES is seeking a Security Architect to drive security innovation and shape the company’s security posture. You will collaborate with architects to craft secure patterns and perform risk-based assessments across cloud-native systems.

You will lead threat modeling, contribute to security policy development, and review infrastructure-as-code designs to ensure secure configurations across AWS and related technologies.

Qualifikationen

• Extensive experience designing & building secure cloud-native solutions, especially AWS.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles & experience reviewing infrastructure configs (CloudFormation & Terraform).
• Strong foundation in cybersecurity landscape, especially IAM, network access control and secure configuration management.

Aufgaben

• Define security designs that meet requirements and enable business objectives.
• Create and document security architectures and design patterns for technology teams.
• Perform threat-modeling to substantiate recommendations and designs.

Kenntnisse

AWS expertise

IaC review

Containers Kubernetes

IAM security

Threat modeling

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Jenkins

Git

Jobbeschreibung

Security Architecgt

Remote - Supporting MST and CST Time Zones

NO Corp-to-Corp, 3rd Party

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

Opportunity

Welcome to the blue team! As a Security Architect, you will drive security innovation and play a key role in the definition, maintenance, evolution and advocacy of our security posture.

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

Candidate

You are passionate, curious, and self-driven. You enjoy understanding and solving complex problems with incomplete information. You may not know everything, but you have a solid foundation and can untangle, self-learn, and identify creative ways to solve problems. Likewise, you should be extremely comfortable architecting secure cloud-based systems, and you should be able to convey security threats, business implications & architectural requirements to both technical & non-technical audiences.

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 architecture & 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

Education

Bachelor s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent experience.

Additional Skills & Qualifications You May have

• Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Familiarity with scrum project management tools (e.g., Jira)
• Professional certifications such as: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Certified Secure Software Engineer, SANS/GIAC Certificates, or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Experience working in Financial Services or FinTech space