Associate Director

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Company Name: Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC

Job Title: Associate Director

Location: 55 Water Street, New York, NY 10041 (Telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the U.S.)

Job Duties: Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC seeks an Associate Director who will lead the security architecture for S&P Global Ratings Cloud and applications infrastructure. Recommend cloud security requirements, engineering, design and subsequent implementation, ensuring minimum disruption and impact to the business. Create, deploy, analyze, and refactor infrastructure securely through infrastructure-as-code tools. Build automation for continuous cloud asset discovery and configuration management. Assist engineering team in the deployment of cloud services and applications and design and deliver a secure-by-default environment. Leverage and develop automated techniques for continuously identifying cloud infrastructure and workload risks. Develop approaches for hardening cloud native containers starting with the build, and all the way through the lifecycle including the run time environment. Collaborate with partner teams to develop cloud security standards and verify controls are implemented to standard. Implement cloud security automation such as cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection capabilities. Support definition of Secure SDLC standard to include security architecture, design and coding requirements for infrastructure, and adopt a shift-left approach for security.

Job Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related IT field plus five (5) years of experience in security engineering, systems engineering, or a related occupation. Five (5) years of experience must include: Designing, architecting and performing assessment in the cloud; Building and designing Cloud solutions from Cloud Service Providers like Azure; Cloud service provider eco-system, such as GCP/AWS or Azure; Designing, building and maintaining scalable cloud and network infrastructure and applications; IP networking, routing, switching VPNs, DNS and load balancing; Assessing and implementing networking security policies with firewall features supported by CSPs; Translating security and technical requirements into business requirements.

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $202,158 to $206,350. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses & certifications. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC is part of S&P Global and this role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please see: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries/us.

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Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

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