Cloud Security Architect

Responsibilities:

Functional

• Use problem-solving creativity to design, architect, and develop high-end technology solutions that solve our clients' most complex and challenging problems across different industries on Microsoft Azure
  

• Provide technical leadership throughout the design and deployment lifecycle with a focus on the delivery of quality solutions.
  

• Lead technical discussions and build consensus among engineers
  

• Ability to design and architect multi-cloud and hybrid networks
  

• Design end-to-end application and data security for IaaS and Paas solutions
  

• Ability to architect and integrate on-premises applications, cloud providers, or other platforms with Azure
  

• Take an active role in operational and business-development aspects of the business (Presales)
  

• Apply architectural experience to make tradeoffs at different layers of the architecture by keeping end customer scenarios business goals, cost and complexity in mind
  

• Builds PoCs of offerings and demo with Account Managers
  

• Experience (or at least good fundamentals) in working with Containers with the usage of leading orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Openshift, Azure Kubernetes Service);
  

• Understanding of at least one modern programming language (including but not limited to PowerShell, Azure CLI, NodeJS, React, .Net, Python, and Java);
  

• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Automation Tools approach using machine-readable definition files (Terraform, ARM,Ansible);
  

• Understanding of CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps;
  

• Understanding of virtualization technologies (VMware, RHV/KVM, Hyper-V, Oracle VM) or private/hybrid cloud platforms (RedHat CloudForms; RedHat OpenStack, VMware vRealize);
  

• Good working knowledge of common Operating Systems (Windows, Linux); the network stack and network protocols;
  

• Understanding of some aspect(s) of computer security: network security, application security, security protocols, cryptography, etc.;
  

• Crafting architecture with Microsoft Azure that meets customers’ technical, security, and business needs for apps/workloads.
  

• Act as SME and advisor for our clients to support the planning and implementation of the journey to the cloud and needed assessments.
  

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining security controls with an Azure/M365 environment.
  

• Monitoring toolsets and systems to ensure our client’s security posture is maintained, and compliance obligations are met.
  

• Proactively remediating identified vulnerabilities by using a variety of security tools.
  

• Design and architecture of information security controls and safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.
  

• Participation in projects, implementations, and upgrades to provide expertise and guidance.
  

• Proactive review of advisory and implementation of Microsoft features.
  

• Remediate events from Microsoft 365 security and compliance dashboards.
  

• Ensure the environment security posture aligns to documented security procedures, guidelines, training material, and best practices or architectural principles.
  

• Provide guidance and support to the customers in determining and recommending security needs.
  

• Analysis of internal and external security events and reporting these findings to customers with recommendations as required.
  

Leadership / Supervision

This will be a leadership position with one or more architects reporting to you.

• Demonstrate strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills.
  

• Ability to analyze and operate at various levels of abstraction.
  

• Ability to balance what is strategically right with what is practically realistic.
  

• Excellent decision-making and critical thinking skills.
  

• Ability to meet deadlines with Projects and Assignments
  

• Ability to learn and support new technologies and train others.
  

• Must be an energetic and highly motivated self-starter.
  

• Must be self-motivated and have a positive attitude.
  

• Must be detail oriented.
  

• Must have the ability to multi-task.
  

• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills.
  

• Must have the ability to communicate effectively with others.
  

Technical Requirements:

This role requires 3+ years of experience in IT infrastructure and operational

roles where Cloud and security architecture was a key area of responsibility and

focus. It includes experiences such as:

• Relevant Microsoft cloud security certifications will be an advantage [SC-200, SC-300, SC-100,SC-900,MS-101,MS-500,AZ–500]
  

• Experience in applying Microsoft product & technology knowledge to improve the user experience.
  

• Demonstrable experience and knowledge with the architecture, design, settings, configuration, and troubleshooting of Microsoft 365 products and solutions such as:
  

• Azure Active Directory.
  

• Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
  

• Azure Information Protection.
  

• Identity and Access Management.
  

• Intune (MAM/ MDM).
  

• Single sign-on and multi-factor authentication and related technologies (including Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security).
  

• Compliance Center and Microsoft Cloud App Security-based data loss protection capabilities and policies.
  

• Advanced threat protection and management including
  

• Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Safe Attachments, Safe Links.
  

• Endpoint security, compliance, and identity management services.
  

• Microsoft Defender Office 365 and Endpoint.
  

• Microsoft Sentinel.