Senior Network Security Architect

Talent Groups; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consulting firm seeks a Senior Network Security Architect focused on Google Cloud Platform to enhance their engineering team. This role involves designing and maintaining cloud platforms, reviewing current capabilities, and ensuring adherence to security best practices. Ideal candidates will have at least 5 years of experience in cloud architecture and proficiency with various cloud providers. The position is contract-based and offers a hybrid work model based in Phoenix, AZ.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience designing and implementing cloud-based enterprise architecture.
• Proficiency with cloud providers including GCP, AWS, and Azure.
• Proven ability to create comprehensive solutions documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain modern on-prem cloud platforms.
• Review existing tools and processes for improvement.
• Provide technical recommendations and documentation.

Skills

Cloud-based enterprise architecture

GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI, Alibaba

Solution documentation

Distributed systems deployment

Security best practices

Firewalls and IDS/IPS management

Automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)

Agile/Sprint based methodologies

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Job description

Our client seeks a motivated Senior Network Security Architect with a focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to join their engineering team. If you excel in dynamic environments and are committed to skill enhancement, this role offers an exciting opportunity.

Job Type: Contract (12 months with possibility for extension)

Location: Hybrid in the following locations – Phoenix, AZ; Palo Alto, CA; Salt Lake City, UT; Sunrise, FL; New York, NY

Visa Sponsorship: This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, build, and maintenance of modern on-prem cloud platforms.
• Review existing tools, applications, and processes to strengthen current capabilities and identify areas for improvement.
• Assist in providing technical recommendations, documentation, and reporting to support leadership, business, and technology teams.
• Ensure reliable and predictable deployment and maintenance of distributed systems adhering to security best practices.
• Responsible for the stability and performance of critical business services.
• Operate efficiently within a highly skilled and agile engineering team.
• Participate in production support and on-call rotations.

Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience designing and implementing cloud-based enterprise architecture.
• Proficiency working with cloud providers including GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI, Alibaba, Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode.
• Proven ability to create highly professional, accurate, and comprehensive solutions documentation representing solution architecture, design, implementation planning or other solution lifecycle events.
• Experience in the design and maintenance of modern on-prem cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of reliable and predictable deployment and maintenance of distributed systems following security best practices.
• Demonstrable understanding of technology standards and standards organizations and their relationship to enterprise information security postures.
• Experience implementing, configuring, and managing Physical/Virtual Firewalls, IDS/IPS, IAM, DDoS mitigation, and NIST standards.
• Experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, GIT, Jenkins, and Bash scripting.
• Familiarity with Agile / Sprint based lifecycle and related ceremonies.

Preferred

• Proficiency in Global Data Centers, Corporate office, Public/Private Cloud, and Hybrid Multi-Cloud/On-Prem architectures.
• Proficiency in Internet, VPN, LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, MPLS, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Routing, Switching, Wireless, VoIP, CDN, OTT, IPSec.
• Familiarity with Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Brocade, Palo Alto, F5, A10, Silver Peak vendors.
• Understanding of Well Architected Framework principles, Commercial regions, GovCloud, and Multi-Cloud Interconnectivity.
• Experience with cloud services such as VPC, EC2, ELB, VGW, Direct Connect, Direct Connect Gateway, Transit Gateway, Peering, SiteLink, MegaPort, Marketplace solutions, Compute (Linux/Windows), Virtualization, and Containerization.
• CISSP, CISA, CISM, or other related certification.

Seniority level: Not Applicable

Employment type: Contract

Job function: Information Technology

Industries: Financial Services and IT Services and IT Consulting