Cloud Security Architect - Vice President

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC Rail Services LLC, Manufacturers Bank, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $100,000.00 and $185,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description

The Vice President, Cloud Security Architecture will be responsible for ensuring that Information Security systems and Cloud infrastructures are configured, deployed, and maintained in accordance with SMBC’s polices and security standards. This position requires participation in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation for Cyber Security and Information Risk management. 
 
This role is part of a team responsible for administering security projects designed to safeguard SMBC’s Cloud infrastructures which is made up of Azure, AWS and GCP. The Vice President of Cloud Security Architecture focuses on implementing and engineering information security solutions using industry’s best practices, defining and documenting projects, creating and executing project plans, engaging in project cost management, resource management and performing periodic reporting. This position requires participation in technical research and development to enable continuous innovation for Cyber Security and Information Risk department. Acts as a subject matter expert who utilizes his/her Cloud Security Engineering expertise to resolve complex problems in consideration of established policies, guidelines, or processes. Reports to Head of Cloud Security Architecture with reporting lines into the Head of InfoSec of Americas Division. 

Role Objectives

• Implement the Firm's Cybersecurity Strategy by architecting, engineering, deploying, and operating technical security controls as they related to virtual machines, storage, key vault, database services infrastructures in the Cloud. 
• Engineer and operate solutions that protect Cloud resources from malicious internal and external threats by providing additional preventative, detective and hardening controls and by enabling Real Time endpoint detection and response capabilities. 
• You will have strong Cloud Infrastructure/Security knowledge and experience working in enterprise on-prem and Cloud environments. 
• You will research, architect, engineer and deploy SAST, DAST, SCA tools and Container based security controls. 
• You will automate security hardening tasks in Cloud to ensure gaps are identified and addressed quickly with our standards. 
• Performs as the Subject Matter expert focused on multiple technologies within the Security domains (Security Engineering, IAM, Cloud Security, Data Security, Network Security, Encryption, Privileged Access Management, Federation etc.). 
• Establishes a strategic security architecture vision, including standards and frameworks for medium to large enterprises. 
• Develops and maintains log analysis solutions, including data collection and aggregations, data normalization, and reporting. 
• Review and analysis of security logs from a wide variety of sources. 
• Coordinate and perform security audits and vulnerability assessments to assess internal security procedures and compliance requirements. 
• Work with relevant internal IT Application, Infrastructure, Network and Support teams to