AWS Security Architect

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

The Verizon Cloud Security Architecture team is looking for an experienced and high-performing AWS cloud security architect. The Architect plays a critical role in building security controls and developing security solutions to protect Verizon Assets in a multi cloud environment and will help grow our cloud security capabilities by strategizing, defining, architecting, and deploying cloud security solutions.

• Performing analysis of cloud and container threats and risks, and formulating mitigation and remediation plans to resolve security gaps.
• Designing and developing security controls across diverse technical domains, with specific emphasis on cloud and container IAM, network infrastructure, and data protection.
• Designing and implementing a resilient security architecture for the AWS cloud, ensuring alignment with industry standards and regulatory mandates.
• Developing and creating reusable cloud security blueprints and templates, while upholding cloud security standards, procedures, and policies.
• Conducting thorough security architecture reviews and audits to detect potential vulnerabilities and weaknesses, and subsequently propose effective security solutions.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of existing security controls and measures and offer practical recommendations for enhancement.
• Maintaining awareness of emerging cloud threats and vulnerabilities, adjusting security measures as necessary to protect the cloud environment.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to empower development teams in implementing secure cloud onboarding.
• Promoting a culture of security awareness and collaboration throughout the organization.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.
• Hands-on experience with cloud and container security tools and technologies across various security domains of network security, encryption, and identity management.
• Experience implementing cybersecurity standards & framework including NIST and CSF framework.
• Experience in System Administration, Software development, Design Architecture, and/or implementation experience.
• Experience in different programming languages e.g. scripting using Python or bash, to automate the build, test, package & deployment security code & configuration.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Good understanding of Cloud security compliance, posture management & threat detection.
• Certified in relevant cloud security and cyberspecific certification.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer science, Math or related field.
• Exposure to application Migration and hybrid cloud environments with DevSecOps methodologies.
• Infrastructure & application security vulnerability detection, analysis, and remediation.
• Knowledge of infrastructure (e.g., firewalls, load balancers, hypervisor, storage, monitoring, security) and experience with orchestration to develop a cloud solution.
• Understanding of networking (e.g., DNS services, TCP, load-balancers, routing, firewalls) to be leveraged for designs and troubleshooting.
• Experience with technical troubleshooting as well as partnering with vendors and other organizations to drive root cause analysis and solve complex technical problems.
• Infrastructure expertise in system design for high availability and disaster recovery, monitoring, cloud efficiency, rightsizing, and patching.
• Cloud and/or cyber security certification including AWS Certified Security - Specialty and CISSP/CCSP.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

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