Threat Prevention Architect

Micasa Global; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Micasa Global is seeking a Threat Prevention Architect to guide global initiatives in transforming infrastructure solutions. This role involves collaboration with senior management and external vendors, ensuring strategic alignment in threat prevention efforts. Ideal candidates will have extensive IT experience and expertise in security technologies.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience required.
• Senior level expertise in security technologies and architecture.
• Extensive knowledge in networking concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design threat prevention solutions per security and business needs.
• Develop strategic roadmaps for enhancing information security.
• Communicate with enterprise-level business partners.

Skills

Malware prevention

Technical oversight

Security architecture design

Creative thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Job description

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CEO @ Micasa Global | Driving Growth with Digital Expertise

Role: Threat Prevention Architect

Location: Fully Remote

Type: 12 Month Contract

Job Description

Lead global initiatives to create and transform infrastructure solutions across the threat prevention space. Interacts externally with key vendors to understand future technology direction and drive product roadmaps to meet our needs. Interacts internally with senior level management to communicate strategic planning roadmaps and executive summaries for technical triage efforts.

Provides technical oversight in identifying, evaluating, and developing infrastructure solutions. Key decision-maker to drive future threat prevention strategy and service evolution. Typically, 10+ years of IT experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as Architecture lead to design threat prevention solutions that adhere to information security requirements while meeting business needs to establish secure network connectivity leveraging varying content inspection systems for malware prevention, data loss prevention, and forensic analysis
• Utilize creative-thinking and advanced problem-solving skills to build and maintain strategic roadmaps that enhance information security mission while optimizing cost, business needs, and end user experience
• Communicate with business partners at an enterprise level; interfacing with internal business representatives and information security partners
• Provide technical consultation to other team members and supported areas

Required Skills:

• Senior level expertise in at least one of the following (in order of desirability):
• Proxy (Skyhigh / McAfee preferred)
• Malware (Trellix / FireEye preferred)
• SSLO (F5 preferred)
• DLP (Vontu preferred)
• Expertise with web proxies for advanced content filtering
• Expertise in malware prevention and data loss prevention systems, including Day Zero threat prevention
• MUST have extensive knowledge on fundamental networking concepts of DNS, DHCP, Firewalls. Load balancing, IPS, basic routing/switching; excellent understanding of TCP/IP and packet analysis
• Expertise in creating Application and network diagrams including all pertinent flows and decisions.
• Capability to summarize complex issues into executive summaries
• Basic understanding of Cryptography, SSL certificates, SSL decryption / offload methodologies, HSM/HSMaaS

Desired Skills:

• People management a plus, but not required
• Mid to senior level expertise in Broadcom / BlueCoat Proxy Security Gateways
• Design integration with cloud service providers such as Azure, Google, AWS, IBM
• Expertise in Virtualization, ESXi server management, vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, vMotion to transform hardware based infrastructure to virtual platforms
• Experience in automation scripts (such as Ansible, Terraform)
• Programming expertise; scripting/automation of various security products
• Understanding of Machine learning, data modeling and perform advanced analytics
• Understanding of cloud encryption and tokenization (i.e., Salesforce topology and integration of Salesforce / Servicenow clouds with Cloud encryption gateway)
• Expertise in Linux, Python, Apache, HTML + Bootstrap, and SQL.
• Leveraging APIs to enhance automation routines.
• Familiarity with the following tools and/or platforms helpful:
• CipherCloud or similar cloud encryption technology
• Zscaler, Radware, FireEye, Websense, Scansafe, Ironport, , Damballa, Vontu, Skyhigh, Palantir, Cloudera platforms
• SEIM tools such as Arcsight, Splunk

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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