Specialist, Enterprise Cloud Security Architect

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IT Architecture

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

The Specialist, Enterprise Cloud Security Architect/Engineer is focused on the design and development of modern cloud security architectures to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our cloud-based infrastructure in AWS. Define cloud security strategies, build a strong enterprise cloud security architecture practice by providing technology leadership, insight on new developments within the architecture space, and guidance in architectural and design decisions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain security controls and procedures to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our cloud-based infrastructure on AWS, with a focus on cloud audit, entitlement reviews, and regulatory compliance.
• Support security assessments and audits of AWS infrastructure and services, and make recommendations for improvements.
• Develop and maintain AWS security policies, procedures, and standards in compliance with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Advise management on the security roadmap and provide input on strategic security initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the security of new and existing AWS deployments, with a focus on compliance with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, NYDFS and more
• Work with external and internal auditors to provide evidence of compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Provide guidance and support to development teams on secure application design and deployment in AWS
• Provide guidance to enterprise and solution architects for adopting cloud security best practices into their solutions.
• Architect and implement OAuth 2.0 solutions for securing cloud-based applications and APIs.
• Perform POCs on security products in the marketplace to evaluate their effectiveness in securing AWS infrastructure and services.
• Implement proactive and reactive security controls to detect and respond to security threats in AWS.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest AWS security trends, threats, and best practices, and proactively implement new security measures as needed.
• Utilize vulnerability scanning solutions like Nexpose, AWS Inspector, and Twistlock to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AWS infrastructure and services.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders to implement and maintain data protection schemes data loss prevention(DLP) controls to safeguard sensitive data in the cloud.
• Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, engineering, MIS, or equivalen