Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
Security architects work to understand strategic priorities, business requirements, technical requirements, issues identification, issue remediation and are called on to develop and articulate robust and innovative security solutions to address these all. Our Security Architects provide subject matter expertise in creating, implementing, and maintaining enterprise security programs.

• Drive and maintain security throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle of Services.
• Oversee Application Security Testing including Static and Dynamic Code scans (SAST/DAST), Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) for completeness.
• Conduct Security assessments and threat modelling of Services

• 5+ years of experiences in building, deploying and managing large scale services / platforms for Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud or Google Cloud.
• Delivering micro services at scale; designing micro services solutions
• Good understanding of real time streaming analytics and batch data processing architectures.
• Familiarity with distributed architecture, event-driven architecture.
• Python, Go Lang experience (Can also have Java, Scala, Rust)
• Container orchestration, performance and security (Kubernetes / Docker)
• DevSecOps practices
• Experience with one or more of the following: NoSQL Databases (eg: Cassandra, Mongo), Columnar Databases (eg RedShift, Snowflake), Search Engines (eg Elastic Search), Spark, Hadoop.
• Sound understanding of data science concepts, model development & performance tuning processes as well as coding, version control and CI/CD best practices
• 2+ years UI Development experience using React (Can also have angular)
• Scripting languages like Python, JavaScript, shell
• Release Engineering (Git Branching, versioning, tagging) and experience with Agile software development
• CI/CD tooling (Preferred ArgoCD, Tekton)
• 1+ years experience with one or more of these Monitoring tools: Sysdig, Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, etc..
• Experience with one or more automation and configuration management tools/solutions: Ansible, Terraform, Salt, Chef, python, bash, puppet, Rundeck, etc.
• Working knowledge of Compute, Network, Storage and Virtualization technologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly responsible, motivated, follow / establish development practices and able to work with little direction

• CORE: Linux system administration experience 6+ years.
• CORE: Linux container experience, Kubernetes, Docker, any LXC based technologies 4+ years
• CORE: 3+ years with any Regulatory bodies or regulatory frameworks ISO27001, FinRA/FFIEC, HiTrust, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, GDPR, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, and EBA
• CORE: Applied experience with application security modeling to include threat modeling and identification of attack vectors - 3+ years
• CORE: Red Team (White hat) pen tester team experience - 4+ years

• CORE: Applied experience with application security & threat modeling to include threat modeling and identification of attack vectors - 2+ years
• CORE: Red Team (White hat) pen tester team experience - 2+ years
• CORE: Web application development experience with Javascript, Java (J2EE), Golang - 2+ years (combined across these languages)
• CORE: Web API experience, writing and interacting with REST or SOAP API interfaces - 3+ years
• CORE: Security Architecture, Design and Review of Architecture, threat modelling 6+Years

• OPTIONAL: Patching and benchmarking (CIS L1 for example) automation via in-house scripting or enterprise tooling
• OPTIONAL: Secure Image (CIS images for example) use and automation, for example secure boot, network boot from images, image deployment and refresh, etc.
• OPTIONAL: years of Software defined Networking experience, Openflow, ONUS, or any of the vendor implementations (Calico, Beacon, OpenDaylight, Open vSwitch, etc)
• OPTIONAL: Experience as an admin or superuser on Security Tools such as: SIEMs, SOAR platforms, vulnerability scanning, DAST, SAST, Privileged ID mgmt., AuthZ solutions, enterprise logging analysis, EDR, any zero trust tools (otherwise known as trusted execution or application whitelisting),
• OPTIONAL: experience with provisioning & provision automation in AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Oracle, or Google Cloud (experience can be with compute nodes, storage, database, any of the "as a Service" offerings, integration with on-prem systems for Hybrid cloud, or bare metal systems)
• OPTIONAL: Experience with secure coding practices and testing to prevent and avoid attacks, such as, http state handling, XSS, OWASP Top 10, ZAP, etc.
• OPTIONAL: Attack vector/pen testing tools experience (Kali, Cobalt Strike, Nmap, BurpSuite, etc.)
• OPTIONAL: Strong experience with scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Bash, Typescript, etc.
• OPTIONAL: Web developer front end experience REACT, Angular, bootstrap, or similar
• OPTIONAL: Regulatory bodies or regulatory frameworks ISO27001, FinRA/FFIEC, HiTrust, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, GDPR, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, and EBA