Security Architect

Description

Mission Statement:

Hitachi Energy provides industry leading software and deep domain expertise to help the world's most asset intensive industries such as energy, utilities and mining solve their biggest challenges, from plant level, regional network scale, to global fleet-wide operations. At Hitachi Energy, it's the people that matter most - to us and our customers. Which is why we're always looking to add more talent to our team. Knowledge is critical. Drive is essential. Creativity is the key. Currently we are looking for a candidate to work as part of our Global Cyber-Security Team supporting Enterprise Software Solutions assigned to work in North America. If you are Security Architect experienced with cloud environment willing to develop in an international company, then this is an opportunity for you! Hitachi Energy Enterprise Software is looking for a Senior Security Architect with solid hands on technical expertise, great communication and collaboration skills. This individual recognizes the importance of individual and group efforts delivering high quality products and solutions, while demonstrating the willingness to learn our customer's business then craft secure solutions that ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our customers applications and data in private, public, and hybrid cloud based environments.

Your Responsibilities:

• Developing and documenting a standards compliant security framework that can be applied to secure architecture reference models across multiple software products/development teams in distinct geopolitical regions.

• Troubleshoot development and deployment security issues for internal and customer facing cloud environments.

• Design and Deliver dashboard security metric solutions to provide a window to operational status for senior leadership.

• Continuously improve, document, and train development teams on the secure deployment tool chain in SaaS and associated processes, moving towards more automation and shorter turn-around times.

• Work across multiple development teams to implement and train developers and deployment engineers on how to effectively architect cloud based software solutions to meet the needs of customer requirements spanning globally.

• Coach development teams on secure software and hardware configuration management and secure test automation strategies associated with cloud based solutions.

• Communicate directly with customers to help them understand secure SaaS software environments and the benefits they provide to traditional deployment models.

• Support customer production SaaS environments when called upon on a 24/7 basis.

• Practical real-world security experience as part of a SaaS team to include working knowledge of cloud computing technologies and workload transition challenges from a cyber security perspective.

• Experience with virtualization and configuration of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS environments and associated software development environments using Microsoft Azure and/or AWS Implementation experience with commercial security solutions such as web application firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, DLP, DDOS mitigation.

• Passion for and ability to work with software development and deployment teams releasing production-ready software on a daily basis.

• Creativity to find innovative and realistic solutions to complex challenges, and an eagerness to learn about new technologies and to devise tools or tricks to get the job done.

• Strong problem solving & troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment.

• Excellent communication and technical writing skills (in English) to explain and document your ideas/plans and present them effectively to senior management for approval.

• Eagerness to train and mentor a staff of senior and junior architects.

• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background:

• Bachelor's/Master's Degree - Engineering, Computer Science.

• 3 + years' experience in security environment, preferably InfoSec or Cyber-Security.

• Experience managing the work of security programs, preferably cyber-security, based upon recognized security standards - NIST 800-53, IEC 62443-4-1, etc.

• 2 + years developing and managing DevOps SDLC lifecycle deployments.

• 2 + years code security, third-party scanning and threat model standards as part of the release lifecycle requirements.

• Deep knowledge of cloud security technologies that include firewalls, routing, dns, network protocols, private vpn deployments, AAD, authentication management technologies, and certificate management with mastery of data from metrics to preemptively identify/prevent threats to customers and organization.

• 3 + years' experience managing security programs in cloud environments, Comp TIA Cloud+, GIAC Cloud Security Automation, or ISC^2 Certified Cloud Security Professional will be considered in lieu of experience.

• On an alternative manner 3+ years managing security programs in a DevOps environment, CompTIA +, ISC^2 CISSP, ISC^2 CISM.

• Professional experience leading policy, procedure, and standards development.

• Professional experience leading training programs focused on cyber-security Fluent spoken and written English.