Cloud Security Architect - Threat Modeling & Risk Leader

Hackensack Meridian Health; Woodbridge Township (NJ); On-site; USD 156,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Hackensack Meridian Health is seeking an experienced Cloud Security Architect to lead secure cloud design, deployment, and governance across the network. You will partner with Enterprise Architects, IT, and development teams to model threats, mitigate risks, and drive secure cloud initiatives.

The role requires deep expertise in GCP, Azure, and AWS, with strong communication skills and a proven track record in enterprise security architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred, but would consider Associate's degree plus experience.
• Minimum of 10+ years of cybersecurity experience, including time spent as an enterprise Cloud Security Architect.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security concepts with SaaS, PaaS and IaaS platforms and the architectural knowledge of GCP and Microsoft Azure.
• Wide breadth of knowledge across security products, tools, and industry trends; ability to create solutions using a pragmatic, risk-based approach.
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts and architecture, including security considerations for routers, switches, firewalls, gateways, etc.
• Understanding of malware, emerging threats, attacks, and vulnerability management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient computer skills that may include Microsoft Office and/or Google Suite.

Responsibilities

• Develop, document, and enforce cloud security policies, standards, and baselines through processes, reporting, and technical means.
• Monitor, benchmark and report progress of cloud security threats, assets, and vulnerabilities.
• Work with asset owners and vulnerability management team to identify and remediate cloud vulnerabilities.
• Participate in enterprise architecture review boards and processes and provide security recommendations for new and existing vendor and user-developed cloud technologies and interfaces.
• Perform monitoring and analysis of cloud logs and data outputs and participate in security and incident tracking, monitoring, and reporting.
• Provide updates for daily and weekly metrics for cloud security events and reporting.
• Deployment and administration of cloud security tooling and associated processes.
• Develop and maintain documentation for new and existing cloud processes and technologies.
• Stay informed and provide recommendations to cloud leadership of new and evolving cloud technologies, products, tooling, methodologies, threats, and risks that would affect the HMH environment.
• Develop, model and evolve cloud attack vectors and design security and/or mitigating controls to mitigate risk.
• Perform cloud assessments using enterprise methodologies and industry better practices.
• Maintain the cloud risk tracker and report to business and technology leadership of status of risks, mitigations, and remediation.
• Serve as a technical resource in the cybersecurity team efforts to build and deploy various configurations in the cloud and on-premise.
• Research and recommend new and evolving industry cloud technologies, solutions, management strategies and effective resource utilization models that can be presented to Senior Leadership (i.e. Directors and above).
• Build relationships with key IT and business leaders across HMH which would include senior leadership (i.e. Directors and above).
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision to identify new and emerging cloud threats.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Skills

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Architecture reviews

Networking concepts

Incident management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

Hackensack Meridian Health is seeking an experienced Cloud Security Architect to lead secure cloud design, deployment, and governance across the network. You will partner with Enterprise Architects, IT, and development teams to model threats, mitigate risks, and drive secure cloud initiatives.

The role requires deep expertise in GCP, Azure, and AWS, with strong communication skills and a proven track record in enterprise security architecture.