Senior Cloud Security Architect

October 31

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Security Testing • Vulnerability Research • Source Code Auditing • Security Consulting • Security Training

51 - 200 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

Description

• Analyze product security requirements and apply industry-recognized methodologies to translate them into effective security controls. • Design and support the implementation of secure cloud architectures. • Audit externally developed product security designs, document missing security controls, and lead efforts to analyze and implement security improvements. • Conduct threat modeling, attack surface analysis, and attack tree creation for products running on cloud platforms. • Research, review, compare, and propose technologies that meet client requirements and align with their strategic objectives. • Perform comprehensive security posture assessments through source code auditing, functional testing, fuzz testing, and other relevant methodologies. • Validate CI/CD pipelines and audit deployment configurations across various hosting environments (native, hybrid, etc.). • Ensure that the implemented solutions align with the product’s security architecture, requirements, and threat model. • Document and present product security risks in both technical and business contexts. • Lead and support a small team (2-3) of security engineers and consultants in assessing and researching cutting-edge technologies and products.

Requirements

• MSc or BSc. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. • 8 + years of experience in Information or IT Security • 3 + years of experience in cloud application or cloud platform security related roles. • Experience can be an engineering / development position (e.g., consumer or enterprise), an assessment / consultancy role, an equivalent role in other engineering organizations, or a combination of them. • Proven experience in developing or auditing security solutions for cloud platforms (public, private or hybrid Cloud Service Providers). • Proficient in English and excellent communication skills. • Experience with designing, implementing and auditing cloud platform security architecture and engaged technologies. • Experience with the technologies of at least one of the major public Cloud Service Providers (GCP, AWS or Azure) and the security features they provide (Key & Secret management, IAM, Service Accounts, Workload / VM Identities, TLS / PKI, Load Balancing, storage encryption, data localization, etc.). • Experience on developing & comprehending source code, discerning business logic, and identifying security flaws in Web- and Cloud-relevant languages, such as Java, Ruby, Rust, Go, Python, C#, Lua, and JavaScript. • Experience with application authentication, authorization, identity, access management, and secrets management technologies, such as OAuth, MFA, SSO, JWT, PKI, Cloud IAM, Password-less authentication, HashiCorp Vault, etc. • Experience with applied cryptography and cryptographic protocols, such as E2E protection, authenticated encryption, mTLS, Key Exchange / Agreement, Key Derivation, Key Wrapping and Remote Key Attestation. • Experience in identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities on software running on cloud platforms (OWASP Web Top10 vulnerabilities, data encryption, transport layer protections, insecure configurations, secrets management, etc.). • Experience with cloud confidential computing, virtualization, enclaves, containers, and workload attestation technologies. • Problem solving skills, analytical thinking, and willingness to learn/grow.