Associate Director

S&P Global; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Retirement planning

Continuing education program with loan

Family perks

Employee discounts

Job summary

Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC in New York seeks an Associate Director to lead the security architecture for the S&P Global Ratings Cloud and applications infrastructure. You will define cloud security requirements, guide engineering and design, and implement secure-by-default solutions across CI/CD and runtime environments.

Responsibilities include building automation for cloud asset discovery, deploying CSPM and workload protection, hardening cloud-native containers, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related IT field.
• 5+ years in security engineering or related roles with cloud design/assessment.
• Experience designing cloud solutions with Azure, AWS or GCP and CSPM/CWP concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead security architecture for the S&P Global Ratings Cloud and applications infrastructure.
• Define cloud security requirements and oversee secure design and implementation.
• Build automation for cloud asset discovery and configuration management.
• Support Secure SDLC and shift-left security across design, code, and run-time.
• Collaborate to verify controls and harden cloud-native containers.

Skills

Cloud security

Infrastructure as code

Cloud security automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related IT field

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

12

Company Name: Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC

Job Title: Associate Director

Location: 55 Water Street, New York, NY 10041 (Telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the U.S.)

Job Duties:

Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC seeks an Associate Director who will lead the security architecture for S&P Global Ratings Cloud and applications infrastructure. Recommend cloud security requirements, engineering, design and subsequent implementation, ensuring minimum disruption and impact to the business. Create, deploy, analyze, and refactor infrastructure securely through infrastructure-as-code tools. Build automation for continuous cloud asset discovery and configuration management. Assist engineering team in the deployment of cloud services and applications and design and deliver a secure-by-default environment. Leverage and develop automated techniques for continuously identifying cloud infrastructure and workload risks. Develop approaches for hardening cloud native containers starting with the build, and all the way through the lifecycle including the run time environment. Collaborate with partner teams to develop cloud security standards and verify controls are implemented to standard. Implement cloud security automation such as cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection capabilities. Support definition of Secure SDLC standard to include security architecture, design and coding requirements for infrastructure, and adopt a shift-left approach for security.

Job Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related IT field plus five (5) years of experience in security engineering, systems engineering, or a related occupation. Five (5) years of experience must include: Designing, architecting and performing assessment in the cloud; Building and designing Cloud solutions from Cloud Service Providers like Azure; Cloud service provider eco-system, such as GCP/AWS or Azure; Designing, building and maintaining scalable cloud and network infrastructure and applications; IP networking, routing, switching VPNs, DNS and load balancing; Assessing and implementing networking security policies with firewall features supported by CSPs; Translating security and technical requirements into business requirements.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

We’re more than 35,000 strong worldwide-so we’re able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you cantake care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include:

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards-small perks can make a big difference.

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