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Senior Lead Cloud Security Architect

$148.5k - $247.5k

Cox Automotive

The Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect is responsible for defining the principles, standards, and design patterns to build secure products and enterprise tools for all of Cox Automotive's multi-cloud and on-premises environments. This position's architecture focus is on securing multi-cloud infrastructure and services and on-premises infrastructure. Peer cybersecurity architects will be focused on application security, software as a service (SaaS), and network security.

This role will use their deep cybersecurity knowledge in the designing and building of secure infrastructure and services in both multi-cloud and on-premises environments. They must be able to collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the organization and propose well-defined cybersecurity architectural guidelines to be adopted by product and enterprise engineering teams. This role will directly report to the Senior Director of Cybersecurity Architecture at Cox Automotive.

What You'll Do:

  • Identify and recommend relevant cybersecurity policies, standards, procedures, and guardrails.
  • Drive the definition of cybersecurity guidelines across the product and enterprise architecture group by leading working groups focused on cybersecurity.
  • Develop secure design patterns in conjunction with the product and enterprise architecture group based on standards that can be adopted and implemented by engineering teams.
  • Contribute to the development of non-cyber architecture-related governance patterns, policies, and standards.
  • Provides complex analysis of potential risks to information systems' security and recommends innovative solutions.
  • Work with cross-functional technical, development and delivery teams to ensure the application of smooth, efficient and scalable release processes.
  • Engage with business teams and engineering teams to define cybersecurity guardrails that promote efficient and seamless adoption of secure design patterns.
  • Participate in security events and incident response to identify gaps in current design and propose solutions to prevent threats from reoccurring.
  • Research and evaluate emerging security trends, threats, and technologies, and recommend appropriate solutions and enhancements.
  • Collaborate with data users, software and other technical stakeholders to ensure security considerations are factored into and underpin development and operational decision making.
  • Collaborate with cybersecurity peers to incorporate vulnerability management, governance, risk and compliance, cyber defense, continuous controls monitoring, and identity governance into cybersecurity standards as a cohesive cybersecurity organization.

Who You Are:

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 8 years of experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 6 years of experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years of experience in a related field; or 12 years' experience in a related field.
  • At least 4 years focused on cybersecurity.
  • Must have practical expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and services and on-premises infrastructure.
  • 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, and containerization.
  • 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).
  • Collaborate with AI agents to create, validate, and assess architectural artifacts
  • Lead cross-functional teams in designing AI-enhanced solutions, establish standards for AI integration, and assess AI technologies within solution architectures.
  • Implement AI-driven architectural governance and compliance by defining robust AI governance frameworks and reference architectures.
  • Improve vendor tool assessments using AI to speed evaluations and minimize mistakes and unknowns.

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.
  • Relevant experience with application security, SaaS, network security, DevSecOps, and software-defined networking across a variety of environments and deployments.
  • 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).
  • Big four consulting or Fortune 500 company experience.
  • Relevant industry certification (e.g., CISSP, CEH, OSCP, Azure, AWS, CISM , CISA).

USD 148,500.00 - 247,500.00 per year

Compensation:

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $148,500.00 - $247,500.00. 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.

EOE, including disability/vets
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