ClearpointCo · 6 hours ago
Information Technology Security Architect
Houston, TX
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level
$140K/yr - $160K/yr
7+ years expClearpointCo is a stable Healthcare related organization seeking an IT Security Architect to define and assess their security strategy and architecture. The role involves translating business objectives into security processes and requires both technical expertise and project supervision skills.
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Hiring Manager
Karl Brunner
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain a security architecture process that enables the enterprise to develop and implement security solutions and capabilities that are clearly aligned with business, technology and threat drivers, both within traditional IT and Operational Technologies
Develop security strategy plans and roadmaps based on sound enterprise architecture practices
Develop and maintain security architecture artifacts (e.g., models, templates, standards and procedures) that can be used to leverage security capabilities in projects and operations
Participate in Security Incident Response and escalated troubleshooting events
Ability to get “hands-on” with the organizations’ security tools, when needed
Track developments and changes in the digital business and threat environments to ensure that they're adequately addressed in security strategy plans and architecture artifacts
Participate in application, infrastructure and OT projects to provide security-planning advice
Determine baseline security configuration standards for operating systems (e.g., OS hardening), network segmentation, and identity and access management (IAM)
Help develop the organization’s data classification criteria
Develop standards and practices for data encryption and tokenization in the organization, based on the organization's data classification criteria
Conduct or facilitate threat modeling of services and applications that tie to the risk and data associated with the service or application
Ensure a complete, accurate and valid inventory of all systems, infrastructure and applications that should be logged by the security information and event management (SIEM) or log management tool
Establish a taxonomy of indicators of compromise (IOCs) and share this detail with other security colleagues, including the security operations center (SOC), information security engineers and analysts, as well as other counterparts within IT
Validate IT infrastructure and other reference architectures for security best practices and recommend changes to enhance security and reduce risks, where applicable
Validate security configurations and access to security infrastructure tools, including firewalls, IPSs, WAFs and anti-malware/endpoint protection systems
Review network segmentation to ensure least privilege for network access
Liaise with the Information Security Compliance and Internal Audit teams to review and evaluate the design and operational effectiveness of security-related controls
Review security technologies, tools and services, and make recommendations to the broader security team for their use, based on security, financial and operational metrics
Coordinate with operational and facility management teams to assess the security of operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) systems
Qualification
Required
BS in Computer Science, Information Systems Information Security preferred (but not necessary) or equivalent required
CISSP, other Security certifications a plus
At least 3-5 years of experience architecting enterprise security solutions
At least 7-10 years of experience with security incident response, including resolving and documenting complex security issues including root cause analysis, prevention and workarounds
Documented experience and a strong working knowledge of the methodologies to conduct threat-modeling exercises on new applications and services
Benefits
Bonus
Great benefits
Company
ClearpointCo
Clearpoint is the staffing partner of choice for Houston’s top employers.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase