Senior Lead Cloud Security Architect

Cox Automotive; Redan (GA); Remote; USD 144,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive technology company is seeking a Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect to design secure infrastructure for multi-cloud and on-premises environments. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams and develop cybersecurity guidelines, ensuring best practices in a dynamic organization. The ideal candidate has significant experience in cybersecurity and AWS, along with strong leadership and customer service skills.

Benefits

Paid time off

Paid wellness leave

Paid holidays

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 8 years of experience in a related field.
• At least 4 years focused on cybersecurity.
• Must have practical expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Identify and recommend relevant cybersecurity policies and standards.
• Drive the definition of cybersecurity guidelines across product and enterprise architecture.
• Develop secure design patterns based on standards.

Skills

AWS cloud infrastructure

Cybersecurity standards

Agile methodologies

Customer service skills

Leadership skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline

Tools

Python

Java

Oracle

Job description

Overview

The Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect is responsible for defining the principles, standards, and design patterns to build secure products and enterprise tools for all of Cox Automotive's multi–cloud and on–premises environments. This position's architecture focus is on securing multi–cloud infrastructure and services and on–premises infrastructure. Peer cybersecurity architects will be focused on application security, software as a service (SaaS), and network security.

This role will use their deep cybersecurity knowledge in the designing and building of secure infrastructure and services in both multi–cloud and on–premises environments. They must be able to collaborate with cross–functional teams throughout the organization and propose well–defined cybersecurity architectural guidelines to be adopted by product and enterprise engineering teams. This role will directly report to the Senior Director of Cybersecurity Architecture at Cox Automotive.

Primary Responsibilities

• Identify and recommend relevant cybersecurity policies, standards, procedures, and guardrails.
• Drive the definition of cybersecurity guidelines across the product and enterprise architecture group by leading working groups focused on cybersecurity.
• Develop secure design patterns in conjunction with the product and enterprise architecture group based on standards that can be adopted and implemented by engineering teams.
• Contribute to the development of non–cyber architecture–related governance patterns, policies, and standards.
• Provides complex analysis of potential risks to information systems' security and recommends innovative solutions.
• Work with cross–functional technical, development and delivery teams to ensure the application of smooth, efficient and scalable release processes.
• Engage with business teams and engineering teams to define cybersecurity guardrails that promote efficient and seamless adoption of secure design patterns.
• Participate in security events and incident response to identify gaps in current design and propose solutions to prevent threats from reoccurring.
• Research and evaluate emerging security trends, threats, and technologies, and recommend appropriate solutions and enhancements.
• Collaborate with data users, software and other technical stakeholders to ensure security considerations are factored into and underpin development and operational decision making.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity peers to incorporate vulnerability management, governance, risk and compliance, cyber defense, continuous controls monitoring, and identity governance into cybersecurity standards as a cohesive cybersecurity organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 8 years of experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 6 years of experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years of experience in a related field; or 12 years' experience in a related field.
• At least 4 years focused on cybersecurity.
• Must have practical expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and services and on–premises infrastructure.
• Clearly articulate the objective of specific cybersecurity policies and procedures to technical and non–technical stakeholders.
• Excellent customer service skills, writing, and executive presentation skills.
• Develop a strong and productive working environment with key stakeholders and collaborate closely with other Cox entities' cybersecurity teams to implement cybersecurity best practices.
• Consultative nature to work through controversial or complex topics to employees, leaders, and/or senior leadership.
• Evaluate risks and recommend actions based on impact and likelihood of the risk to the business.
• Knowledge of current cybersecurity and technology architectures such as zero trust, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, virtualization, and containerization.
• Creatively solving complex cybersecurity challenges while exhibiting solid, pragmatic business acumen.
• Experience utilizing Agile methodologies.
• Initiating change and deploying solutions in Fortune 1000 companies.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., ISO 27000, NIST, FFIEC) and industry relevant regulations that will guide architectural requirements (e.g., GDPR, FFIEC, GLBA).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the development and design of cybersecurity standard methodologies to all layers of the hosting and application stack in both cloud and on–premises environments.
• Relevant experience with application security, SaaS, network security, DevSecOps, and software–defined networking across a variety of environments and deployments.
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM), cryptography / key management, secrets management, access controls and security protocols (e.g., multi–factor, SAML, OAuth, OIDC).
• Experience with application security implementations and standard methodologies.
• Extensive technology knowledge and recognized expertise in several areas including Python, .NET, Java, Spring frameworks, Oracle, serverless, cloud patterns, cloud service and user authentication or similar.
• Experience with firewall, web application firewalls, and other edge services as well as deep understanding of DMZ and other network architectures.
• AWS Well–Architected Framework.
• Experience establishing a strategy for and implementing cloud enterprise solutions in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• A strong understanding of cloud containers and/or serverless platforms (e.g., EKS, ECS, Lambda, Fargate).
• Big four consulting or Fortune 500 company experience.
• Relevant industry certification (e.g., CISSP, CEH, OSCP, Azure, AWS, CISM, CISA).

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation: The base salary ranges from $144,900.00 to $241,500.00 and may vary based on location, knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation through incentive programs.

Benefits: Eligible employees may take paid time off, seven paid holidays per year, and up to 160 hours of paid wellness leave annually for personal or family wellness. Additional paid time off options include bereavement, voting leave, jury duty, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.