Security Architect

"Information Security Architect - The Security Architect, with a broad cybersecurity plus systems, network, cloud and architecture knowledge and experience, will provide overall direction, lifecycle management and leadership for security architecture and technology. - The individual will perform a lead role in various critical initiatives through the identification, analysis, evaluation, lifecycle management and adoption of security architectures and technologies. - The Security Architect will work closely with other security functions and will provide guidance to ensure that there is coordination with their activities in technology choices. - In addition, the Security Architect will be involved with education and mentorship, supporting the delivery framework, development of technical architecture documentation, and advanced research topics. - Key responsibilities includes: - Leading and contributing to the security posture of Schroders networks and systems, data centre infrastructures, cloud architectures and solutions. - Developing, contributing and management of security architecture specifications, security architecture analysis, threat-modelling, security requirements, security standards and design patterns, reference architectures, security strategies and roadmaps. - Providing strategic points of view for security solutions and security industry events - Developing and/or carrying out the strategic direction of security projects to enable execution of the information security strategy. - Developing security solutions to enable execution of the long-term security architecture. - Driving security technology evaluations and proof-of-concepts. - Building strong cross-organizational relationships and effectively influencing staff across the IT organization and product teams. - Managing lifecycle of security technologies. - Working closely with the other technology architects to ensure that security is properly embedded in their technology domain architectures. - Assisting other architects in peer reviews. - Staying current with security technologies and making recommendations for use, based on business value. - Advising leadership on Cybersecurity issues, systems, processes, products, and services. - Maintaining oversight of the design and implementation of IT/business systems to ensure appropriate and effective security controls are included. - Serving as a Cybersecurity expert to contribute to the definition of overall IT architecture. What you will need: - Significant practical cybersecurity architecture and design experience in networks, data centre systems, cloud infrastructure and platforms (IaaS security, PaaS security). - Strong experience in threat-modelling of complex systems. - Experience in delivering comprehensive architecture specifications for security solutions. - Experience with creating technical documentation: - product documentation, - technology and systems/network architecture, - technical security standards. - Strong working experience with security technologies, such as Firewalls, Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems, Vulnerability Scanning, WAF, Wireless LAN, NAC, DLP, DDoS Mitigation, WAN security, SIEM, Content Filtering, Cloud Security gateways, Secure Proxies, and Crypto solutions. - Strong hands on cloud architecture, with knowledge and working experience in: Azure & AWS services. - Strong expertise and experience with Linux and Linux security - Solid understanding of and ability to speak authoritatively to security principles in areas such as network, systems, virtualization, cloud technologies, access control, and cryptography. - Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues at Expert level. - Experience integrating multiple vendor products. - Preferred certifications may include: CISSP, SABSA, TOGAF, Aglie (SAFe), GIAC DSA - Hands-on experience and strong understanding of technology and enterprise security - Solid understanding of compliance, regulatory and legal requirements relevant to Financial industry such as MAS, CSSF, FCA etc. - Understanding of relevant Industry Principles, Best Practices, and Standards, such as NIST, ISO, CIS, OWASP, MITRE, CSA-CCM etc. - Ability to function as an individual contributor and mentor/leader detached from the corporate environment. - Programming/coding and DevOps experience is a plus (Python, Ansible, Terraform) - Key Skills: - "Information Security Architect - What you’ll be like - Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the talent to connect and communicate across all levels across the Firm. - Comfortable working across technology teams to identify, assess, track and close down regional risks. - Passionate about developing a career in Information Security - Prior experience working in a large organisation or financial services is an advantage - Location: - Chennai - Required Experience: - 7-12 yrs - Positions: - 1