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Cox Automotive Inc. · 5 months ago

Senior Lead Cloud Security Architect

Atlanta, GA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$145K/yr - $242K/yr

8+ years exp

Cox Automotive Inc. is seeking a Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect responsible for defining principles, standards, and design patterns to build secure products and enterprise tools. The role focuses on securing multi-cloud infrastructure and services and involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to establish cybersecurity architectural guidelines.

AutomotiveDigital MarketingE-CommerceMarketing

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

AWS cloud infrastructureCybersecurity frameworksAI integrationApplication securityIdentityAccess ManagementCloud enterprise solutionsCybersecurity policiesAgile methodologiesCustomer serviceConsultative natureCollaborative skillsProblem-solving skills

Required

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

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)