Cyber Security Architect -Vice President

Overview

The Cyber Security Architect is responsible for driving secure-by-design and secure-by-default programs across on-premises and cloud environments, identifying threats, risks and security gaps, and ensuring sufficient security controls and continuous improvement.

What you'll do

• Engage early with business and technology partners to include information security from the inception of software and solutions.
• Partner with solution architects to create secure-by-design architectures in accordance with secure architecture principles.
• Threat model and identify threats and security controls that can mitigate them.
• Complete Architecture Review Analyses on critical applications, identify security gaps and ensure mitigation.
• Complete cloud architecture reviews for SaaS solutions and evaluate vendor designs and offerings.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on secure architecture patterns, recommended security solutions, API security, secure secret management, secure public cloud solutions and secure SaaS solutions.
• Threat model existing identified high-risk use cases and develop solutions for compensating controls and mitigation.
• Participate in peer reviews and engage in constructive dialogue and critical thinking to drive the best value for clients.
• Engage in working groups to drive improvements to security policies, standards and procedures.
• Identify opportunities to improve the maturity of security architecture.
• Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, best practices and industry standards and help shape the future of cyber architecture.
• Identify and proactively work on opportunities that simplify, fix and allow clients to thrive.

What you'll need

• 13+ years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or university degree, or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in threat modeling.
• Proficiency in cloud security across AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Proficiency in API security, SOA architecture and microservices.
• Critical thinking skills.
• Self-starter, analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Research skills and willingness to keep learning.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Experience influencing peers, stakeholders and management.
• Ability to lead by example and demonstrate strong work ethics.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• Proven influencing and relationship management skills.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree preferred.
• Security certifications preferred.

Details

• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Employment type: Full time.