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Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Help mature the IRC organization and overall enterprise security posture by assessing control effectiveness against current and emerging threats while partnering with technology teams to ensure industry standard and best practice platform, network, and endpoint security.

• Support the overall IRC mission, strategy, and delivery of objectives.

• Build strong working relationships and work closely with technical and enterprise architecture teams to ensure that security is well integrated into the environment.

• Interpret and apply understanding of policy, process, architecture, regulatory, audit and compliance implications to assist the development of technical solutions or controls.

• Maintain a deep understanding and application of security concepts at a technical level across various domains.

• Provide architecture and roadmaps for incorporating infrastructure security devices, including IPS, SIEM, malware proxies, network and systems access controls, firewalls, authentication devices, enterprise monitoring systems, etc.

• Enable security and compliance by design to help mitigate threats while positioning for future expansion and business enablement.

• Ensure operational reliability and support of IT services delivered to customers and users are according to defined SLA metrics for confidentiality, integrity and availability from a design, architecture, and integration perspective.

• Analyze non-integrated and emerging technologies for business enablement and security compliance.

• Conceptualize possible future functional and non-functional requirements into architecture platform technical strategy and detailed design to meet business objectives.

• Provide guidance and direction to the overall technical strategy and roadmap by aligning cost-effective and reusable solutions while advancing the usage of new emerging trends and technical capabilities.

• Lead and mentor junior team members in building effective cross-functional relationships, developing technical expertise, and effectively providing guidance to partners.

• Create influential thought leadership vision and work products shaping our future.

Qualifications

• 10 years' experience in some combination of the following disciplines with an emphasis on information security/security architecture specifically within identity and access management, network architecture, application architecture and design, common authentication protocols and frameworks, industry standard frameworks (NIST, ISO), Cloud, DNS, VPN, SOC, SIEM, Email security, Cryptography concepts.

• Experience operating in cloud, DevOps, and SaaS environments.

• A passion for cybersecurity and knowledge of the latest threats, trends and concerns.

• Subject matter expert for security processes across multiple domains and disciplines - on premise and cloud / SaaS based applications, data, infrastructure and mobile solutions.

• Demonstrated knowledge of common adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) (MITRE ATT&CK framework), Cyber Kill Chain, and other relevant cybersecurity frameworks.

• Must be highly collaborative, able to effectively interact and communicate with peers, management and leadership teams of varying technical levels, and act with a sense of urgency when security challenges or requirements arise.

• Experience leading and mentoring junior team members

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

• CISSP and/or SANS certification preferred

• CISSP-ISSAP, CCSP, GDSA, TOGAF Foundation, MS Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert; a plus

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