Senior Cloud Architect

Key Responsibilities:
• Define information security strategies, including guiding principles and future state vision, ensuring that the strategic objectives are aligned with business goals
• Develop and implement security policies and standards in alignment with industry best practices, state and federal regulations, and emerging security technologies.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including IT teams, vendors, and State agencies, to ensure that security measures are integrated into all technology solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and expertise to IT teams and other stakeholders on security-related issues.
• Work closely with customer stakeholders to identify and mitigate risks, perform security reviews, design top tier security practices, and deliver strategic, innovative cloud-based security offerings
• Leading the Cloud Security Infrastructure Design and Architecture on client engagements
• Stay up to date on the latest security threats, trends, and technologies, and recommend solutions to mitigate risks.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:
• Expertise in conducting product research to make informed information security assessments
• Expertise in the assessment of System Security Plans to develop information security position reports
• Expertise in identifying risk as it relates to clients policy, the state of its environment and Defense in Depth
• Ability to coordinate with other subject matter experts to develop a concise position on IT products and services from an information security perspective.
• Ability to develop reports pertaining to vendor provided IT products and services
• Ability to document procedures and diagrams related to security architecture
• Ability to conduct research, analyze, and communicate the security and regulatory impact of risk to executive level management in a concise manner.
• Familiarity with Cloud and Network Security concepts and tools
• Familiarity in risk assessment processes for information technology systems as outlined in NIST Publications.
• A high level of attention to detail reviewing complex documents related to information security.
• Hands-on experience in Cloud (Oracle/AWS/GCP/Microsoft Azure ) security architecture, security engineering, or equivalent experience with vendor specific cloud certification.