Infrastructure Security Architecture

**Education - General - Professional**:

- Bachelor’s degree in a computer-related field such as computer science, cyber/information security discipline, physics, mathematics or similar
- Master’s degree in business administration, information security, human resource management,
- Architecture: TOGAF/SABSA or similar
- Agile: Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- General Information Security: CISSP, CISM/CISA or similar

**Experiences (Years & Type) - Industry - Regional - Functional**:

- Banking or e-Commerce Industry experience of at least 2-3 years is necessary.
- Must have a minimum 7-10 years of experience in an Infrastructure and Security function with good background in information technology, stakeholder management and people management.
- Minimum 3-5 years’ experience, as an Infrastructure and Security Architect
- Minimum 3-5 years’ experience as an Enterprise & Data Architect
- Prior experience managing a team of 3-5 individuals.
- Budgeting, creating slide decks and presentation skills.
- Certification in Azure or AWS is added advantage

**Knowledge & Skills - Technical - Functional - Managerial**:

- Define, Document and implement the infra & security architecture for the IT projects including but not limited to the following:

- Authentication & authorization
- Account administration controls (provisioning, segregation of duties, validation, attestation, etc.)
- Auditing of critical security related events
- Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of the system and data.
- The architect should have sound knowledge on enterprise level target architecture in On Premises, public and private cloud platforms (IaaS/PaaS)
- Good knowledge of the concerns and threats that revolve around Cloud Security and how those concerns can be mitigated (Technical)
- technical areas (Technical)The architect has the skill to follow design principles and applies design patterns to enforce maintainable, readable, and reusable patterns, in the form of code or otherwise.
- The architect has automation skills/capability in the form of scripting or similar.
- The architect can propose options for solutions to the security requirements / patterns that provide a balance of security, user experience & performance.
- The architect has the skill to discuss and present solutions to other architecture, security, development, and leadership teams.
- The architect can interpret and understand vulnerability assessment reports and calculate inherent and/or residual risks based on the assessment of such reports.
- Ability to articulate and be a persuasive leader who can serve as an effective member of the senior management team. Good negotiation skills will be desirable.
- Must have good judgment skills in order to decide on an exception approval.
- Ability to enforce improvements when necessary using Influence rather than Policing measures.
- Superior written and verbal communication skills in order to effectively communicate security threats and recommendations to technical or non-technical stakeholders.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Infrastructure design for various business & Technology Initiatives
- Acts as expert for infrastructure teams in the plan, design, and delivery of IT solutions
- Advises teams of IT technology standard requirements, methodology and processes.
- Maintenance of Policies & Standard Decisions for Infra Design
- Ensure delivery of cost effective & high-quality design within timelines of the project / initiative.
- Delivery and Maintenance of Infra model as design assets using design and architecture tools.
- Design of integrated solution for software defined datacentre
- Engage with partners & vendors to baseline Infra design decisions.
- Participates in proof of concepts to assist in defining technology direction and enabling business strategy.
- Manage relevant stakeholders & sign off authorities for closure and transition of design to provision.
- Acquire knowledge and take over design aspects of newly on boarded technologies in Infra.
- Deploying Enterprise architecture on AWS / Azure
- Implementing AWS (or equivalent) services in variety of distributed computing environments
- Integration of AWS cloud service with on-premises systems.
- Migrating workloads from on-premises systems to AWS cloud using appropriate tools and technology
- Key Work-Related Tasks and Performance Indicators:
- The Technical Architect needs to understand the IT landscape in detail from a capability standpoint.
- Aware of the Enterprise Architecture design principles
- Ensure 100% compliance to standards / principles set by Bank / Enterprise Architect in solution design
- Maintain high degree of Relationship and professional rapport with any IT / Partner / Business stakeholder being dealt with for the overall requirement.
- Deliver high quality specs and ensure 100% completeness of solution.
- Perform effective design reviews to ensure that no gaps are created in design.
- Design sustainable and high performing solution