Cloud Security Architect-Director

4 weeks ago


New York, New York, United States Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Full time

Cloud Security Architect-Director
Job Level: Director
Location: New York, NY, US, 10172
Employment Type: Full Time
Requisition ID: 2684
SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization's extensive global network. The Group's operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC Rail Services LLC, Manufacturers Bank, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $203,000.00 and $230, The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description
The Director of Cloud Security Architecture will ensure bank's cloud infrastructures are securely architected, configured, deployed in accordance with the approved polices and standards by leveraging industry best practices and automation. You will be expected to broaden and sharpen our capability to manage the incoming security architecture needs while rapidly surfacing, driving down, and reporting on cloud security issues across our AWS, GCP, and Azure environments.

This role is responsible for identifying secure cloud architecture patterns, where appropriate automate deployments using IaC and manage security projects. This position requires participation in technical research and development to enable continuous innovation for Cyber Security and Information Risk department. Acts as a subject matter expert who utilizes his/her Cloud Security Engineering expertise to resolve complex problems in consideration of established policies, guidelines, or processes.

Role Objectives

• Implement the bank's cybersecurity strategy by architecting, engineering, deploying, and operating technical security controls as they related to virtual machines, storage, key vault, database services infrastructures in the Cloud.

• Engineer and operate solutions that protect Cloud resources from malicious internal and external threats by providing additional preventative, detective, and hardening controls and by enabling Real Time endpoint detection and response capabilities.

• You will automate security hardening tasks in Cloud to ensure gaps are identified and addressed quickly with our standards.

• Performs as the Subject Matter expert focused on multiple technologies within the Security domains (Security Engineering, IAM, Cloud Security, Data Security, Network Security, Encryption, Privileged Access Management, Federation etc.).

• Establishes a strategic security architecture vision, including standards and frameworks for medium to large enterprises.

• Review and analysis of security logs from a wide variety of sources.

• Coordinate and perform security audits and vulnerability assessments to assess internal security procedures and compliance requirements.

• Work with relevant internal IT Application, Infrastructure, Network and Support teams to ensure that security controls are implemented at all significant layers, test those controls and perform gap analysis to find areas of improvement.

• Perform testing to evaluate new products for network and system security controls.

• Participate in the development of the security roadmap and communicate the Technology Security vision to senior management and technical departments.

• Coordinates with project team the implementation, upgrade and maintenance of security solutions.

Qualifications and Skills
Critical Job Knowledge and Core Competencies/Skills:

• 7+ Years of hands-on security architecture, implementation and design experience required, designing globally scalable Cloud security solutions.

• Cloud Security and hands on knowledge with Azure and AWS is highly desired.

• Experience delivering large and complex programs - where you own the business or technical vision, collaborate with large cross-functional teams, secure commitments on deliverables and unblock teams to land business impact

• Strong knowledge of enterprise Information Security pillars (Perimeter security, Identity Management and Governance, Privileged Account Management, Compliance, Penetration testing, Encryption, Cloud Security, Incident Response, Vulnerability Management)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong attention to detail.

• Strong executive reporting and narrative based presentation skills.

• Thirst for knowledge and constantly driven to stay current with evolving threat landscapes.

Hands-on experience with some of the following:

• Docker and Kubernetes

• Developing & securing Serverless applications

• Security administration in AWS/GCP/Azure

• CI/CD and DevOps Tooling (Git, Jenkins, DevOps)

• Infrastructure as Code Tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Cloud native security related tools (Azure Sentinel, AWS Guard Duty, AWS WAF, GCP Security Center, WIZ.IO, CASB)

• Cloud Network (VPC) engineering
The Nice to Haves

• Azure Certifications – Solutions Architect, AWS Security Specialty

• GCP Certifications – Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Security Engineer

• Security Engineer Certifications – CISSP, CompTIA Security+

• Certifications in related areas (e.g. SANS, OSCP, CEH) are a plus



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