Lead Integrated Cybersecurity Architect responsible for advising engineering teams on secure product development and advising on cybersecurity architecture standards and practices across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
Summary
A Lead of Integrated Cybersecurity Architecture is responsible for evangelizing the agreed upon cybersecurity architectural principles, standards, and design patterns, and advising engineering teams on how to build secure products and enterprise tools for multi-cloud and on-premises environments. This role is focused on being an integrated member of the product and engineering teams. A separate function defines the architecture guidelines that this role is responsible for advising the teams on how to implement.
By having deep cybersecurity knowledge in the design and build of secure software products and tools in both multi-cloud and on-premises environments, this role will partner with and influence direct and cross-functional teams throughout the organization and collaborate cross-functionally to solve cybersecurity risks that are unique to a business unit's risk profile and products.
This role will report directly to a Director of Integrated Cybersecurity Architecture at Cox Automotive.
Primary Responsibilities
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
USD 119,600.00 - 199,400.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $119,600.00 - $199,400.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.
A Lead of Integrated Cybersecurity Architecture is responsible for evangelizing the agreed upon cybersecurity architectural principles, standards, and design patterns, and advising engineering teams on how to build secure products and enterprise tools for multi-cloud and on-premises environments. This role is focused on being an integrated member of the product and engineering teams. A separate function defines the architecture guidelines that this role is responsible for advising the teams on how to implement.
By having deep cybersecurity knowledge in the design and build of secure software products and tools in both multi-cloud and on-premises environments, this role will partner with and influence direct and cross-functional teams throughout the organization and collaborate cross-functionally to solve cybersecurity risks that are unique to a business unit's risk profile and products.
This role will report directly to a Director of Integrated Cybersecurity Architecture at Cox Automotive.
Primary Responsibilities
- Communicate cybersecurity guidelines to engineering teams and business teams and support their adoption of the guidelines.
- Be integrated with and in continuous contact with engineering teams to advise on their architecture decisions and assist with cybersecurity control implementation.
- Contribute to the identification and mitigation of cybersecurity risks based on threat modeling of products and enterprise tools.
- Provides cybersecurity architecture advice and consultation across major program and solution levels.
- Engage with cybersecurity peers to create a cohesive cybersecurity department and share back internally regarding business specific activities. Act as the on the ground cybersecurity security representative to the product and engineering teams.
- Partner with enterprise architecture, infrastructure and engineering teams to review existing architecture, identify gaps and recommend security enhancements.
- Participate in security events and incident response to identify gaps in current design and propose solutions to prevent threats from reoccurring.
- Educate product and enterprise architects and engineers on cybersecurity best practices and standards.
- Partner with the legal and security governance, risk and compliance teams to ensure that cybersecurity architecture enables compliance with relevant regulatory and contractual requirements.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 6 years of experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years of experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience in a related field; or 10 years' experience in a related field.
- At least 4 years focused on cybersecurity.
- Relevant experience with designing, securing, or operating AWS infrastructure and services.
- Clearly articulate the objective of specific cybersecurity policies and procedures to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Excellent customer service skills, writing, and executive presentation skills.
- Develop a strong and productive working environment with key stakeholders and collaborate closely with other Cox entities' cybersecurity teams to implement cybersecurity best practices.
- Consultative nature to work through controversial or complex topics to employees, leaders, and/or senior leadership.
- Evaluate risks and recommend actions based on impact and likelihood of the risk to the business.
- Knowledge of current cybersecurity and technology architectures such as zero trust, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, virtualization, containerization, DevSecOps, and software-defined networking across a variety of environments and deployments.
- Creatively solving complex cybersecurity challenges while exhibiting solid, pragmatic business acumen.
- Experience utilizing Agile methodologies.
- Initiating change and deploying solutions in Fortune 1000 companies.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., ISO 27000, NIST, FFIEC) and industry relevant regulations that will guide architectural requirements (e.g., GDPR, FFIEC, GLBA).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the development and design of cybersecurity standard methodologies to all layers of the hosting and application stack in both cloud and on-premises environments.
- Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM), cryptography / key management, secrets management, access controls and security protocols (e.g., multi-factor, SAML, OAuth, OIDC).
- Experience with application security implementations and standard methodologies.
- Extensive technology knowledge and recognized expertise in several areas including Python, .NET, Java, Spring frameworks, Oracle, serverless, cloud patterns, cloud service and user authentication or similar.
- Experience with firewall, web application firewalls, and other edge services as well as deep understanding of DMZ and other network architectures.
- AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Experience establishing a strategy for and implementing cloud enterprise solutions in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- A strong understanding of cloud containers and/or serverless platforms (e.g., EKS, ECS, Lambda, Fargate).
- Experience in national critical infrastructure industries (telecommunications, financial services, defense, government, etc.).
- Big four consulting or Fortune 500 company experience.
- Relevant industry certification (e.g., CISSP, CEH, OSCP, Azure, AWS, CISM, CISA).
USD 119,600.00 - 199,400.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $119,600.00 - $199,400.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.
Top Skills
.Net
AWS
Cloud Patterns
Cryptography
Devsecops
Iam
Java
Oauth
Oidc
Oracle
Python
SAML
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