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Cloud Security Architect AWS (Contract) Contract

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VTRAC Consulting Corporation
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Thank you for applying to VTRAC opportunities. Please e-mail your resume as a MS-WORD document in confidence Subject: Cloud Security Architect AWS (Contract); Contact: [email protected]

Title:                             Cloud Security Architect AWS
Type:                            3 Months Contract (Extendable)
No. of Positions:          1
Location:                      Bedford, New Hampshire

Background:

A global financial organization, that offers a suite of financial products across a range of asset classes, investment styles and geographies.

The Department

Technical Security function (known as TISO function) manages enterprise security portfolio to support the business and systems. We support the Information Security vision by providing transparency of the current state of our security capabilities; security development in the industry; and a technical roadmap toward our future state. We establish security standards, reference architecture, guidelines; and we provide security advisory/assurance services to the company to ensure all IT systems are designed with proper security controls in place.

Your Role

The TISO Cloud Security role is accountable for driving cloud security initiatives for the organization. Under limited supervisions, the candidate will work with a wide variety of business stakeholders and IT professionals (including Technology Cloud Platform and Engineering teams) to ensure organizational security needs/controls are aligned to support business goals and objectives. Though security for IaaS cloud (mainly AWS) is the main area of focus for this role, each TISO is encouraged to cover other cloud delivery models (PaaS, SaaS) and providers like Microsoft and Oracle

Key Responsibilities:

  • Act as a subject matter expert for advisory, review and approval of security designs, configurations, baselines, and technical standards
  • Assess effectiveness of cloud security controls i.e. data protection, IAM, detective controls, infrastructure security, incident response and report risk to the security management and risk register. Work on identifying and driving implementation of appropriate controls, processes, and remediation of non-compliance
  • Provide security advisory services to Information Security / IT on projects & general support matters
  • Owns the collaboration between Information Security and Technology Cloud teams to support cloud security program.
  • Work with stakeholders, IT and Business to align cloud security standards with business goals and objectives
  • Contribute and execute on security strategy, drive cloud security projects, and ensure implementation and transition to operational support
  • Assist in research, design, and advocate new technologies, architectures, and security products that will support cloud driven initiatives
  • Assists security Incident Response and forensic teams in the investigation as required

Requirements:

  • Ten plus years IT experience with six plus years focused on Security
  • Experience with cloud delivery platforms IaaS/PaaS/SaaS and providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Oracle
  • Expert knowledge of AWS security related services
  • Demonstrated experience running an enterprise wide initiative and understanding of all domains of security. Ability to engage with senior leaders to define requirements and implement technology solutions that add value and reduce risk
  • Strong communicator (written and verbal) and listener
  • Bachelor’s degree, or higher, in a technical discipline is preferred
  • CISSP (or equivalent) required
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Security (or equivalent) required
  • TOGAF or Zachman (or equivalent) preferred

We thank all candidates in advance. Only selected candidates for interviews will be contacted. For other exciting opportunities, please visit us at www.vtrac.com. VTRAC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Tagged as: AWS, AWS Security, Cloud Security, Cloud Security Architect

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