What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Cloud Security Architect position at Charles Schwab Inc.?
Your Opportunity
You will be responsible for innovating, designing and implementing groundbreaking capabilities to secure cloud and cloud-based workloads. This role requires technical hands-on involvement and expertise in the cyber security realm.
The Technical Director of Cloud Security specializes to secure next-gen technology, a developer and pioneer, comfortable in building new security capabilities and automation. The TD is an authority, driven individual contributor, and has a deep passion as an accelerator and change agent with the ability to build a security community and multifaceted Dev/SEC/Ops environment.
What you are good at
- Engineering, implementing and monitoring security measures for the protection of Cloud Infrastructure and integrations
- Maintains, leads and challenges the security footprint to bring continuous advancement and maturity
- Assists IT operations and security owners to implement scalable security capabilities and processes
- Research and recommend new security technology capabilities and their applicability within the greater organization, evangelize and deliver
- Be experience and metrics driven with consistent advancement to
- Shaping the organization’s security policies and standards for use in cloud environments
- Interpreting security and technical requirements into business requirements and communicate security risks to relevant partners ranging from business leaders to engineers
- Advising and influencing multi-disciplinary teams in implementing and operating Cyber Security controls
- An advocate for policy as code and security as automation adopting IAC and the CICD/SDLC lifecycle towards all cloud activities
- Collaborating with application developers and database administrators to deliver creative solutions to difficult technology challenges and business requirements
- Applying adept understanding and experience with systems automation platforms and technologies
- Providing domain expertise on information security architecture and systems engineering to other IT and business teams
- Implementing security architectures for cloud/hybrid systems
- Automating security controls, data and processes to provide improved metrics and operational support
- Employing cloud-based APIs when suitable to write network/system level tools for safeguarding cloud environments
- Ensuring accurate metrics of security performance, and maturity over time
What you have
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related field highly preferred
- An interest and desire to stay on top of emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and controls
- Knowledge to spot and implement new security technologies and standard methodologies into the company’s cloud offerings.
Workplace Flexibility Program: We're proud to support our employees in a working approach that allows you to bring your best self to work – whether that’s in the office or remote.
- Most Schwabbies have the opportunity to voluntarily work in the office or at home based on their preference*
- When the firm is ready to fully return to the office, employees will have the flexibility of a hybrid work environment, spending some time working remote and some time in the office.
- Employees and managers can discuss and decide what works best for them, with additional flexibility available based on their role, business needs, and individual circumstances.
*Subject to change as Schwab is continually evaluating the current environment in order to best care for the safety and well-being of our employees.
