Security Architect

Colt is the New Standard in high bandwidth network and voice services for enterprises and wholesale customers in Europe, Asia and North America’s largest business hubs. With a global reach but a deep local presence, Colt is big enough to deliver and small enough to care.

**Role title:
**Security Architect**

**Colt Level:
**S2**

**Function**:
**COO- T&S**

**Reports to:
**Manager - Security Architecture**

**Location**:
**Bangalore**

**Role purpose**

The role whilst reporting into SA team, will have close interaction with the Security Engineering team, SOC team and Threat intelligence team and will participate in researching emerging technologies, products, services and architectures, to work with the various Colt technology groups (Network, Voice and Data Centre Services) in producing, delivering and validating the Colt wide end-to-end architecture.

The role is a combination of internal activities and accountabilities (defining the target architecture for your domain, initiating and/or leading important transformations and new wide-scale deployments, supporting the design and engineering teams) as well as external activities (working with key vendors and start-ups, engaging with customers and the sales organisation and participating to industry forums and events).

**Key accountabilities**
- Design, deliver and maintain the end-to-end target architecture for the security domain
- Work with your architecture, design and engineering peers to align the architecture to the Colt technology landscape
- Design and consult on security elements for new product and technology introductions and support compliance/security enforcement projects
- Ensure Colt networks are compliant with relevant regulations, TSR, ND1643, ISO27001
- Support the Technology and Security function regarding incident response, forensics and security testing guidelines
- Technology watching and translate research into actionable data (research memos, strategy papers, etc)
- Work with the Colt Business Units on strategic initiatives and support key transformational or wide-scale projects
- Support the product portfolio and product engineering teams on products and services strategy and developments
- Participate to and represent Colt at industry bodies
- Participate to Colt’s Customer Intimacy Programme
- Identify interesting start-ups and work with established vendors to maintain Colt’s leadership in the platform domain

**Other accountabilities (optional)**
- Assist with development, planning and delivery of “Hackathons” and other employee security awareness initiatives such as “Security Awareness week”

**Key performance indicators (financial and non-financial)**
- Ensure security project requirements are identified, accepted and implemented.
- Document project security requirements
- Ensure change initiatives have been assessed and meet the security architecture and engineering principles.
- Maintain the Colt Security blueprint and roadmap for components.

**Relationships and key contacts
- T&S team
- Technology Engineering & Architecture teams
- Internal facing Technology functions
- Project Management Office

**Role specific requirements**

**Skills & Experience
- 3 years+ technical knowledge and practical experience in information security in a large-scale enterprise or telecommunications industry environments
- Experience in conducting risk assessments in accordance with a recognized risk assessment/management methodology
- Engineering degree or equivalent (networking, computing/computer science, etc). Pure work experience also accepted
- Basic understanding or above of software-defined concepts and technologies (SDN) as well as NFV concepts and technologies
- Understanding of network technologies (Role of Switches/Routers in network, TCP/IP IP stack, Knowledge of protocols such as HTTPS, SNMP, NTP, Telnet, SSH) as well as security enabling technologies (Firewalls, IDS/IPS, content filtering platforms, proxies, DMZ, anti-malware, anti-spam, anti-ransomware, anti-DDOS, NAC and MDM technologies)
- Entry level experience of UNIX and/ or MS Windows including Active Directory
- Good understanding of information security concepts related to private and public cloud providers and services, and key cloud design concepts such as IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and their differences
- Able to translate the technical security jargon into clearly understood business language
- Must be fluent in English (technical and non-technical), another European language is welcome
- Strong team player able to lead small teams of senior architects/engineers, drive projects and activities.
- Good presenting and inter-personal skills (C-level, customer meetings, vendor management, speaking at conferences, publishing thought leadership, active participation to SDOs and other industry forums)
- Good combination of creative and analytical skills, able to deliver complex documents and "connect the dots"
- Ability to travel regional and long-haul as required (when