Security Architect

**Skills: Cloud architecture, security architecture, IAM architecture, Scripting, AZURE**

**Requisition**:
**Your key responsibilities**
- Design, build and implement enterprise-class security systems for a production environment including a continuous monitoring system
- Align standards, frameworks and security with overall business and technology strategy
- Identify and communicate current and emerging security threats
- Design security architecture elements to mitigate threats as they emerge
- Create solutions that balance business requirements with information and cyber security requirements
- Identify security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommend changes or enhancements
- Train users in implementation or conversion of systems
- Subject-matter expert that has expertise across all IAM topics as it relates to both cloud and design of Active Directory, AD LDS, Azure AD, Conditional Access, Azure PIM, Azure Identity protection, Azure ADDS, ADDS, SAML, SCIM, OpenID, OAuth, and MFA.
- Drive the adoption of Directory services, Authentication and Authorization reference architectures for existing, new, and emerging IAM technologies particularly in the Azure Gov domain.
- Drive the adoption of creative solutions to address complex IAM problems.
- Participate in Identity and Access Management enterprise governance processes and drive IAM standards adoption.
- Develop effective architecture solutions that not only satisfy immediate project requirements but also deliver a coherent, reusable, reliable and phased architecture to help the business grow and change while aligning to strategic vision.
- Represent IAM on organizational project teams and ensure adherence to existing security policies and US Gov, NIST, DoD standards.
- Manage the successful technical delivery of Information Security projects and services for our customers by working directly with key business stakeholders, executives, and project teams. Security architects are often the technical lead on initiatives and as such must drive the vision and alignment of the solution delivery.
- Deliver technical security configuration architecture expertise in implementing cross-organizational information sharing.
- Develop solutions and recommendations for issues caused by process challenges, emerging threats, and technology changes.
- Partner with all stakeholders and external vendors to manage: design, develop, deploy, and support the best possible solution to meet business needs.
- Assess and define problems or opportunities for improvement by providing documented business, functional, operational, and security requirements to be addressed by future state solutions
- Design innovative solutions that address key lifecycle management functions to support the needs of the business
- Communicate design approaches and recommendations effective to gain stakeholder approvals and agreements
- Coordinate design activities across multiple teams and services to ensure successful completion of complex projects
- Develop both technical and functional solutions that integrate with business processes

**Skills and attributes for success**
- Ideally the required skills and competencies would be 8+ years or more of experience in the following:

- Security architecture, demonstrating solutions delivery, principles, and emerging technologies - Designing and implementing security solutions. This includes continuous monitoring and making improvements to those solutions, working with an information security team.
- Consulting and engineering in the development and design of security best practices and implementation of solid security principles across the organization, to meet business goals along with customer and regulatory requirements.
- Security considerations of cloud computing: They include data breaches, broken authentication, hacking, account hijacking, malicious insiders, third parties, APTs, data loss and DoS attacks.
- Identity and access management (IAM) - the framework of security policies and technologies that limit and track the access of those in an organization to sensitive technology resources.
- Core understanding of Azure Active Directory Tenant deployment and Azure Directory management
- Understanding of Azure Administrator Roles, Units, and emergency accounts to enable policies at a granular level for access administration
- Ability to manage multiple directories in the Azure environment.
- Strong organizational skills, self-motivated and able to work to tight deadlines
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Effective teaming and knowledge sharing skills
- Advanced skills in planning, designing, and troubleshooting complex cloud environments
- Solid understanding of Cloud environment and security best practices
- Good understanding of ITIL
- Strong ability to document processes, procedures, and security designs clearly and accurately for distribution to internal teams and customers
- Understanding of other technologie