Job Description

Cloud Security Architect

A reputable financial services corporation is recruiting a Cloud Security Architect who has capabilities in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud to take our client from on premise to cloud transformation across multiple systems, applications and products. The chosen candidate will work alongside C-Suite members of staff, influencing decision-making and contributing to the transformation of a global business. The chosen candidate must have at least 3 years plus in security solutions architecture and understand the latest cloud trends within Cyber Security. Our client is offering a permanent salary of \xc2\xa3100,000 to \xc2\xa3120,000 circa + 40% bonds with equity shares options + 7.5k car allowance / 30 days holiday to be located in Chatham or Wolverhampton on a hybrid basis (2 days in office, for crucial meetings, days are not regimented)

The role requires someone with cloud experience and knowledge to lead the security design activities for functional cloud services such as computing, storage, and networking, as well as the integration points with existing Group Security services and processes such as monitoring, alerting and incident response.

Role responsibilities:

• Scope, design and build secure cloud services to support the Modernisation programme and deliver a scalable and flexible cloud security architecture to support and facilitate innovation for our client\xe2\x80\x99s services.
• Develop and build secure network architectures patterns (e.g. hub-spoke), including ingress/egress capabilities and work with the network team to connect the cloud platform with our client\xe2\x80\x99s data centres.
• Support other architects to drive discussions and design choices to deliver scalable and manageable cloud solutions through guidance aligned to security, performance, operational and cost constraints.
• Working closely with application development teams to understand product feature pipelines and their requirements from the cloud platform
• Drive automation and consistency by following the principles of Infrastructure as Code and ensuring the quality of deliverables by mandating automation with multiple levels of quality and security checks built into the automation pipeline.

Core skill set:

• Solid capabilities in the latest security design processes in relation to on prem to cloud transformation
• A strong background in Cloud Infrastructure Engineering/platform Engineer role, deploying and maintaining cloud foundation services
• Recent project experience designing and implementing core foundational services related to cloud product (Azure, AWS, Google cloud)
• Cloud Infrastructure provisioning using infrastructure as code (IAC) tools such as Terraform
• Exposure to site reliability/observability using tools such as \xe2\x80\x93 Elastic, New Relic and AppDynamics
• Highly skilled in DevOps pipelines, DevOps tooling and automation

\xc2\xa3120,000 circa / 40% Bonus with equity shares / \xc2\xa37,500 car allowance / Work from home options / 30 Days Holiday / Medical Cover /Life Cover / Pension / Flexible Benefits

Cloud Security Architect

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