Principal Security Architect

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Opportunity

Welcome to the blue team! As a Principal Security Architect in our Technology Innovation Lab, you will drive both business and security innovation while playing a key role in our adoption of emerging technologies such as Generative AI.

What you will Do:

You will be embedded with our team of technologists to help securely design, pilot & implement tools and systems using emerging technologies. This will involve defining standards & guardrails, crafting secure design patterns, performing security assessments of vendor/opensource technologies using a risk-based, threat-modeling approach.

The Principal Security Architect will have the following core responsibilities:

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and technology teams to create secure designs that meet security requirements and enable business objectives
• Participate in emerging technology proof-of-concepts or pilot projects while retaining an eye on meeting security obligations and good practice
• Develop relationships, repeatable processes, and resources to usher security champions within The Innovation Lab
• Perform threat-modeling as required to substantiate the recommendations & designs
• Participate in the development and maintenance of security policy, standards & reference materials
• Review and contribute to infrastructure-as-code representations of architecture designs or changes

Candidate

You are passionate, curious, and self-driven. You have a passion for trying new things, working with emerging technologies, and aren't afraid to fail fast-forward. You enjoy understanding and solving complex problems with incomplete information. You may not know everything, but you have a solid foundation and can untangle, self-learn, and identify creative ways to solve problems. Likewise, you should be extremely comfortable architecting secure cloud-based systems, and you should be able to convey security threats, business implications & architectural requirements to both technical & non-technical audiences.

What you will bring:

• Ability to collaborate & communicate effectively with technical & non-technical teams
• Extensive experience designing & building secure cloud-native solutions, especially in Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Microsoft Azure
• Ability to partner with multiple stakeholders to derive accurate threat models for new/existing systems and reduce information security risk on systems
• Demonstrable experience and passion for emerging technologies
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles & experience reviewing infrastructure configurations/changes in this format (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.)
• Strong technical foundations in modern application/microservice architectures & related technologies (e.g., Containers, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, RESTful/gRPC APIs, etc.)
• Understanding of CI/CD & Secure Development processes & tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git, etc.)
• Strong foundation in cybersecurity landscape, especially in identity & access management, network access control and secure configuration management
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent experience.

What will set you apart:

• Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected Framewo