
Security Architect
Empower
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $125,400 - $181,875 per year
About the role
- Partner with business and technology teams to define security designs that meet security requirements and enable business objectives.
- Create, maintain, and document security architectures and design patterns for use by technology teams.
- Develop relationships, repeatable processes, and resources to establish security champions across the company.
- Perform threat modeling as needed to substantiate recommendations and designs.
- Participate in the development and maintenance of security policies, standards, and reference materials.
- Review and contribute to infrastructure-as-code representations of architecture changes and designs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8–10 years of experience in information security and/or IT risk management.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical teams.
- Extensive experience designing and building secure cloud-native solutions, especially in AWS.
- Ability to partner with multiple stakeholders to create accurate threat models for new and existing systems and reduce security risk.
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code principles and experience reviewing infrastructure configurations and changes in this format (for example, CloudFormation, Terraform).
- Strong technical foundations in modern application and microservice architectures and related technologies (for example, containers, Kubernetes, service mesh, RESTful and gRPC APIs).
- Understanding of CI/CD and secure development processes and tools (for example, Jenkins, Git).
- Strong foundation in the cybersecurity landscape, especially identity and access management, network access control, and secure configuration management.
- Professional certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Cloud Practitioner, CCSP, Certified Secure Software Engineer, SANS/GIAC, or CISSP.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
- Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
- Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
- Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
- Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.
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Hard Skills & Tools
information securityIT risk managementcloud-native solutionsthreat modelinginfrastructure-as-codeCloudFormationTerraformapplication architecturesmicroservice architecturesCI/CD
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationrelationship buildingprocess development
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions ArchitectAWS Cloud PractitionerCCSPCertified Secure Software EngineerSANS/GIACCISSP