Cybersecurity Architect: Secure Enterprise & Member Data

Blue-Cross-; Flowood (MS); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi is seeking a Cybersecurity Specialist to design, implement, and maintain security architectures for enterprise IT, protecting member data and critical systems. The role collaborates with infrastructure and development teams to ensure secure deployment of systems, software, and hardware across Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

Responsibilities include threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and evaluating new security solutions while supporting content

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Strong understanding of networking infrastructure concepts, technologies, protocols, and solutions.
• Comfort working across multiple computing platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS)
• Ability to research and solve complex business and technology problems
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, multi-tasking, project management, and communication skills
• Customer focused and service oriented to ensure timely and accurate performance and benchmark achievement.
• Preferred include: Security certifications (Network+, Security+, etc.)
• Email security, data loss prevention, and cloud security

Responsibilities

• Manage enterprise-scale security projects, overseeing assessments, action plans and policies & procedures while communicating project status and follow-up with stakeholders.
• Ensure security architecture is designed and configured in accordance with existing security policies and industry’s best practices.
• Perform system architectural reviews, threat modeling and vulnerability assessments, partnering with infrastructure and development teams to ensure new and existing infrastructure, software, hardware, architecture and applications are deployed in a secure manner.
• Provide technical support for content filtering systems, mobile device management systems, security validation, email security, and managed file transfer, and data loss prevention systems.
• Evaluate RFPs, new security systems or changes to current systems to ensure the appropriate security system controls are incorporated.

Skills

Networking concepts

Cross-platform

Analytical thinking

Project management

Communication

Customer focus

Research skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Security certifications

Job description

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi is seeking a Cybersecurity Specialist to design, implement, and maintain security architectures for enterprise IT, protecting member data and critical systems. The role collaborates with infrastructure and development teams to ensure secure deployment of systems, software, and hardware across Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

Responsibilities include threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and evaluating new security solutions while supporting content