Aws Security Architect

Sonoma Consulting is one of the fastest growing national IT Consulting and Executive Search company in the United States, which was founded in 2011 by Mark McGee, the President and CEO. Sonoma Consulting has two business divisions - IT Consulting Services & Executive Search to serve its 150 national clients which range from entrepreneurial start-ups to Global Fortune 500.

Expecting the first 2-3 weeks on site in NYC and theremainder of the project to be remote

Duties:

§ Analyze and design security solutions for applications and infrastructure, and provide expertise and consulting to clients;

§ Identify and document information security risks and propose mitigating controls;

§ Will be responsible for understanding complex business IT needs, requirements, and projects scopes, with a focus on information security requirements;

§ Research, design, and develop new information security controls for clients;

§ Assess current IT environments and make recommendations to increase security;

§ Assist clients in troubleshooting and resolving information security issues;

§ Author project and support documentation and diagrams; and

§ Implement security solutions.

Required Experience:

• Assessed, developed and implemented, operationalized and documented comprehensive security technologies and processes;
• Secure
  software development, data protection, cryptography, key management,
  identity and access management (IAM), network security (VPNs) within
  SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud environments.
• Architected solutions within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other cloud providers and SOA for cloud-based services;
• Worked with cloud security and governance tools, cloud access security brokers (CASBs), and server virtualization technologies;
• Performed security design/architecture reviews, code reviews, and penetration tests of large applications, systems and/or networks;
• Worked
  on large scale cloud based services (including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and
  understand security challenges involve in deploying Cloud Applications;
• Created and maintained security policies and procedures, managing the protection of information systems and assets;
• Performed threat modeling and design reviews assessing security implications and requirements introducing new technologies;
• Hand-on
  experience with multiple security technologies such as Firewalls,
  Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems, Vulnerability Scanning, WAF,
  Wireless LAN, NAC, DLP, DDoS Mitigation, WAN security, SIEM, Content
  Filtering, Cloud Security gateways, Secure Proxies, SSL crypto solutions
• Solid
  understanding of a range of compliance, regulatory and legal
  requirements and relevant principles, best practices and standards
  across multiple industries. Preferred industries: financial services, telecommunications. Examples would include: PCI, SOX, GLBA, CSA, PCI, NIST, ISO, IEEE, FedRAMP, HIPAA and TCG
• Have
  working knowledge of common and industry standard
  cloud-native/cloud-friendly authentication mechanisms (OAuth, OpenID,
  SAML, Ping, Okta, etc) and key management (Safenet, Vormetric, other)
• Excellent
  verbal and written communication skills including the ability to
  present materials with detailed technical specs, represent technical
  viewpoints to diverse audiences and making prudent technical risk
  decisions.
• Ability to collaborate and work well within a team
• Customer service orientation – an attitude of “yes, here’s how”, instead of “no”
• Flexibility to travel up to 30-50%
• Cloud
  security and/or architecture related certifications - AWS Certified
  Solutions Architect or Certified DevOps Engineer would be a plus

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, place of origin, ethnic origin,
national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity, transgender status, genetic information, mental or physical
disability, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other
characteristic protected by applicable national, state, or local law.