Do you want to work in a place that will keep you on the cutting edge of technology? Our client has a 100% remote opening for a highly motivated and well rounded Senior Sybersecurity Cloud Architect to join their dynamic and growing team. The ideal candidate will be full of enthuasim and drive. Expertise in both Azure and AWS is a must. Can be located anywhere in the US but must have the ability to work EST hours. Visa Sponsorship is not available at this time.

location: Jacksonville, Florida
job type: Contract
salary: $70 - 73 per hour
work hours: 8am to 4pm
education: Bachelors

responsibilities:

- The essential functions listed represent the major duties of this role, additional duties may be assigned.

- Accountable for adhering to enterprise architecture standards, ensuring security technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to enterprise architecture strategy-setting.

- Responsible for design and implementation of security strategy, architecture and platforms. Responsible for enterprise due-diligence activities including security monitoring and security metrics to evaluate effectiveness of the enterprise security program and established controls.

- Responsible for ensuring necessary security controls are part of technical designs.

- Participates in security governance processes.

- Participates in IT security efforts across all business areas and client groups.

- Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for issue resolution.

- Serves as security architecture subject matter expert to business areas, project teams and vendors to apply and execute appropriate use of technology solutions and lead efforts to examine technology vision, opportunities and challenges.

- Builds consensus around principles of security architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles.

- Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options.

- Provides technical guidance to less experienced Security Architects.

- Participates on project teams contributing input with regard to security standards and the impact to technology.

- Investigates and reports on security threats and incidents.

- Conducts post-event reviews of security incidents.

- Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and architecture blue prints.

- Evaluates strengths and flaws in Security Architecture designs including performance, confidentiality, integrity, availability, access and total cost of ownership.

- Facilitates project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions.

- Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects. Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise.

- Establishes and maintains relationships with IT and business area partners to evaluate designs and controls.

- Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience. Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures. Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs. Provides guidance on security solutions and prepares benchmarking reports and presentations.

- Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness and value delivered to customers.

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 6 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors (required)