Job Location – Los Angeles, CA (Hybrid – 3x a Week Onsite)
Type – Contract (6 Months with Possible Extensions)
Pay Rate – $78.00 – $83.00 Per Hour (W2)
Our client is actively seeking candidates who are self-driven and proficient in cybersecurity, third-party risk/security management, data security and general IT risk management processes. The candidate will have experience as a solutions architect with a strong focus on integrating security through the product/solution lifecycle.
The candidate will play a key role in our teams’ efforts to build and support a defensible environment where we are able to detect, contain and respond quickly to data security threats and compromise in ways that serve to enable the business needs of a highly collaborative organization. The environment is fast-paced and commonly on the leading edge of technology, including early adoption of various cloud services along with the challenges of integrating those services into our security practices.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the solutions architecture function to ensure security is integrated early in the development lifecycle for in-house or SaaS based solutions, infrastructure projects and technology processes.
- Partner with business and technology teams to identify and document workflows, system architecture, data flows and determine appropriate security considerations.
- Leverage Threat Modeling techniques to identify security threats, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors across the solution (infrastructure, application, data).
- Ensure the security considerations identified are implemented and the solutions are configured securely.
- Key focus on security integrations includes secure access and authorizations, audit logging, secrets management, data protection, data security and other functional third-party integrations.
- Support the SaaS/Third Party security assessments and collaborate with service owners, business leads and vendors to develop a managed solution aligned with company security policies.
- Identify risks and provide mitigating controls or risk treatment options for a given solution.
- Develop training for technology team members to increase awareness on security practices for onboarding new technology solutions.
Required:
- Minimum 8 years of Information Security experience with a Bachelor’s Degree.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in a Security Architect function.
- Create and review system architecture diagrams in Lucidchart or equivalent tool.
- Experience in SaaS and Cloud architectures – Azure, AWS, M365, and exposure to SAP 4/HANA, Workday, Salesforce, and other SaaS solutions. Cloud architecture certifications preferred.
- Experience with Cybersecurity frameworks – NIST CSF, CSA Cloud Controls.
- Cybersecurity certifications CISM, CISSP or equivalent work background preferred.
- Familiarity with operational tools such as JIRA, ServiceNow, OneTrust.
- Experience with contractual and regulatory standards such as GDPR, CCPA, FINRA, TISAX, SOX.
- Experience with third party security assessments and standards – SOC, ISO27001, SIG.
- Ability to communicate complex messages in a clear and concise manner with stakeholders at all levels.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to communicate with internal/external entities and executives.
- Effective leadership skills with demonstrated ability to coordinate people and teams to project/activity completion.
- Ability to work in team environment sharing responsibilities.
- Ability to work in a flexible environment where requirements and procedures continuously evolve.