The duties of the Security Architect include but are not limited to the following:
- Keep up to date with the latest security and technology developments.
- Research/ evaluate emerging cyber security threats and ways to manage them.
- Plan for disaster recovery and create contingency plans in the event of any security breaches.
- Monitor for attacks, intrusions, and unusual, unauthorized, or illegal activity.
- Test and evaluate security products.
- Design new security systems or upgrade existing ones.
- Use advanced analytic tools to determine emerging threat patterns and vulnerabilities.
- Engage in ethical hacking , for example: simulating security breaches.
- Identify potential weaknesses and implement measures, such as firewalls and encryption.
- Investigate security alerts and provide incident response.
- Monitor identity and access management, including monitoring for abuse of permissions by authorized system users.
- Liaise with stakeholders in relation to cyber security issues and provide future recommendations.
- Generate reports for both technical and non-technical staff and stakeholders.
- Maintain an information security risk register and assist with internal and external audits relating to information security.
- Monitor and respond to phishing emails and pharming activity.
- Assist with the creation, maintenance, and delivery of cyber security awareness training for colleagues.
- Give advice and guidance to staff on issues such as spam and unwanted or malicious emails.
- To undertake ad hoc assignments as required by superior from time to time.
Requirements
- Hands-on in security projects (application security, database security, and network security)
- Exp in AWS security, tenable, Imperva, akamai, waf
- must be cissp and aws certified
- 5 years of experience or more
Security Architect