Network Security Architect

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Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Our Team

As the WBD portfolio continues to grow – around the world and across platforms – the Global Technology & Operations team is building media technology and IT systems that meet the world class standard for which WBD is known. GT&O builds, implements and maintains the business systems and technology that are critical for delivering WBD’s products, while articulating the long-term technology strategy that will enable WBD’s growing pay-TV, digital terrestrial, free-to-air and online services to reach more audiences on more platforms.

Within our Information Security team, there has never been a busier or more urgent time to obtain the best talent we can for this critical function. In light of the constant threats and attacks occurring in companies across the globe, and across all industries, the Information Security Team at WBD is a growing group of cyber security professionals, using the latest tools and resources to protect the assets from our internal infrastructure to the shows we broadcast across the globe on Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery ID, TLC, EuroSport, TVN, and more. From the US to Singapore, Poland, India to LA, we are tasked with protecting, training, and implementing the best of the best in tools, resources, monitoring, threat detection, and more.

Your New Role...

The Network Security Architect is a critical technical role responsible for ensuring the secure design and compliance of WBD enterprise architecture to effectively and securely support the organization in meeting specific business technology needs. This candidate will be considered a subject matter expert in the area of Network Security and Architecture. Ideal candidates will be expected to execute architecture design reviews, evaluate security controls, identify opportunities to enhance the security posture of WBD business environments, and build relationships with infrastructure architects and engineering leads to disseminate and explain secure design methodologies and policies.

Ideal candidates will have a strong understanding of enterprise architectures and use their knowledge of the emerging threat landscape to strengthen the resilience of WBD’s global network security posture.

Your Role Accountabilities...

• Conduct regular security audits against the organization’s global network infrastructure for signs of vulnerabilities, intrusions, and ensure the efficacy of security measures in place.
• Implement security controls, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and other network security measures.
• Work with network administrators and other IT stakeholders to ensure network security designs meet established standards.
• Develop automated reporting on network security posture for presentation to executive management and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with internal security architects to evaluate new technologies, services, and applications before deployment.

• Lead security and vulnerability assessments on new, existing, and affiliated network configurations.
• Review and approve security configurations for routers, switches, firewalls, VPN gateways, load balancers, etc.
• Develop, review, and update network security policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines.

• Collaborate with our corporate functions including Internal Audit, Legal and Compliance, Privacy, and Sourcing to ensure that WBD maintains a strong cybersecurity posture.

• Develop custom scripts to pull real-time telemetry from network devices, facilitating immediate analysis and action.
• Utilize APIs and scripting to integrate network security tools with other systems for comprehensive threat detection and analysis.
• Maintain documentation for all automation tools and scripts, ensuring they meet internal standards and are easily understandable for IT staff.
• Understand technical security issues and the implications to WBD businesses and be able to communicate them to management and other business leaders.
• Understand emerging security technologies and determine the appropriate use within business applications.
• Validate reference architectures for security best practices and recommend changes to enhance security and reduce risk, where applicable.

Qualifications & Experience...

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other related discipline or 5 years of previous network security experience.
• Security certifications are a plus. (CISSP, CCIE, PCNSE, CISA, SANS, Security , etc.)
• Must be proficient in networking protocols including TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP/SFTP, DNS, SNMP, SMTP/POP3/IMAP, and LDAP, along with their associated security measures and vulnerabilities.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, specifically the ability to communicate within the context of the intended audience, whether that be senior executives or highly technical engineering resources.
• Detailed understanding of the threats faced by direct to consumer and digital platform organizations.
• Working knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, Go etc.)
• Hands on experience securing hybrid and cloud native infrastructure is highly preferred
• Proven hands on experience hardening network and security appliances
• Detailed technical experience supporting and implementing SIEM & logging tools (Splunk, Kibana, etc.) and the ability to extract actionable intelligence from large volume aggregated log storage.
• Thorough understanding of Network and enterprise IT infrastructure and, specifically the security aspects thereof.
• Thorough understanding of compliance and regulatory frameworks and how they affect architecture designs and reviews.

This position requires the resource to be on-site at least three days a week in our Atlanta, DC, or Silver Spring office.

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How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.