Empower

Security Architect

Empower

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $125,400 - $181,875 per year

Job Level

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