AWS Security Architect
August 29
Description
• Guidance and Mentorship: Provide overarching guidance to security engineers, helping to define, outline, and implement best practices, industry-standard processes, and security controls across all aspects of the organisation’s IT environment. Mentor and support security engineers in adopting the latest security trends, tools, and methodologies. • Tool Selection and Optimisation: Lead the evaluation, selection, and optimisation of security tools and technologies, ensuring they align with business goals and provide comprehensive protection across cloud, application, and network security. • Security Strategy Alignment: Collaborate with business stakeholders to align security strategies with organisational objectives, ensuring security initiatives support overall business growth and resilience. • Process Design and Implementation: Develop and enforce security policies, standards, and procedures that integrate seamlessly with the work of the security engineers, covering areas such as Google Workspace, AWS security, SSO solutions, Zscaler configurations, and email security. • Comprehensive Security Monitoring: Design and implement a robust observability strategy for the entire security landscape, ensuring real-time visibility into potential threats and the effectiveness of security measures across all platforms. • Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement in security processes by staying informed on the latest industry trends, security threats, and compliance requirements, and proactively integrating these insights into the organisation’s security practices. • Incident Response and Risk Management: Oversee the development and refinement of incident response plans, risk management strategies, and threat mitigation techniques, ensuring readiness to respond to and recover from security incidents. • Governance: Ensure that security governance frameworks are in place and adhered to, balancing the need for strong security controls with business agility and operational efficiency. • Business Communication: Regularly communicate security strategies, status, and risks to key stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment between security initiatives and business goals.
Requirements
• Extensive experience as a Security Architect or Cloud Security Architect with a strong focus on AWS environments and security practices. • Proven ability to mentor security engineers, guiding them in best practices, industry standards, and the latest security tools and methodologies. • Expertise in evaluating, selecting, and optimising security tools to align with business goals and ensure comprehensive protection. • Experience in automation, reporting, and full lifecycle management of security tools and frameworks. • Skill in aligning security strategies with business objectives, ensuring that security measures support organisational growth and resilience. • Proficiency in developing and enforcing security policies, standards, and procedures that integrate seamlessly with existing operations. • Experience in designing observability strategies for security and driving continuous improvement by incorporating the latest security trends and threats. • Strong capability in overseeing incident response and risk management processes to ensure effective handling of security incidents. • Knowledge of security governance frameworks and the ability to balance robust controls with business efficiency. • Excellent communication skills to clearly convey security strategies, risks, and statuses to stakeholders. • Experience in designing and implementing multi-cloud and multi-region security architectures.
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