Security Architect

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This opportunity is in the Information Technology Department.

As the company‘s largest department, I.T. is responsible for supporting both ongoing operations and our next innovative project. At Safety National, information technology is instrumental to our success, allowing us to partner with colleagues to securely enable and support new capabilities every day. Utilizing a diverse set of technologies, like Guidewire, Salesforce, Java, C#/.NET, Mule, and Azure, the available career opportunities continue to grow rapidly. Our department consists of agile teams who employ the Scaled Agile Framework for enterprises (SAFe) to effectively deliver solutions and add value. I.T. is also a team where individual contributions are recognized, and career advancement is nurtured.

Role Description:

In the role of Security Architect, you will be part of a dynamic team that lives Safety National‘s Core Values of Relationships, Integrity, Teamwork, Balance and Stability. You will work closely with Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer. Your contributions of planning and designing activities, assurance and collaboration across the organization and aligned with the organizations‘ strategic goals will be felt throughout Safety National.

Along with your day-to-day responsibilities as a Security Architect, this role is fully remote to Safety National. Some of your duties will include planning and designing activities, assurance and collaboration across the organization and aligning with the organizations‘ strategic goals. You will play an integral role in defining and assessing the organization‘s security strategy, architecture and practices. You will be required to effectively translate business objectives and risk management strategies into specific security processes enabled by security technologies and services. Ensuring confidentiality, integrity, availability and safety of data including cloud, network and endpoint security, strengthening a safe and secure culture in collaboration with IT teams and the business.

There are three distinct roles this person will play in this position: Planning and Design Activities, Assurance Activities and Collaboration. For Planning and Design, you will develop, maintain and educate on privacy and security architecture process that enables the company to develop and implement secure solutions and capability‘s that clearly aligned with business, technology and threat drivers. Additionally, you will develop and maintain privacy and security architecture artifacts that can be used to leverage security capabilities in projects and operations.

Assurance Activities will conduct of tracking developments and changes in digital business and identifying threats to ensure they are adequately addressed in security strategy plans and architecture artifacts. Other assurance activities will be coordinating validation of security configurations and access to security infrastructure tools including firewalls, IPA‘s WAF‘s and anti-malware/endpoint protection systems.

Lastly you will collaborate. Collaboration with IT, Business, and security teams to ensure that security architecture supports the needs of the business. Provides guidance on information security topics, advising and collaborating on privacy and security matters with other organizational units. You will be acting as a liaison with the business continuity management team to validate security practices for business continuity testing and operations when a fail over occurs.

The ideal candidate is someone who has a strong working knowledge of vulnerability management tools and hands-on experience of managing security infrastructure. Some of the essentials skills required of you in this role are, experience reviewing application code for security vulnerability and securing CI/CD pipelines, experience designing the deployment of applications and infrastructure into public cloud services, full-stack knowledge of IT infrastructure and strong working knowledge of IT service management. Prior experience with Sarbanes-Oxley, Privacy Practices, NIST Cybersecurity Framework is preferred.

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Qualifications:

Education:

• A Bachelor‘s degree in IT related field preferred (Computer Science, Information Systems, Cyber Security)

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years‘ experience in IT with a focus on Security
• Possess 2 or more approved certifications within job area
• Direct, hands-on experience or a strong working knowledge of managing security infrastructure - firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, web application firewalls, endpoint protection, SIEM and log management technology.
• Experience reviewing application code for security vulnerability and securing CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong working knowledge of vulnerability management tools.
• Experience designing the deployment of applications and infrastructure into public cloud services.
• Full-stack knowledge of IT infrastructure.
• Direct experience designing Identity Access Management technologies and services.
• Strong working knowledge of IT service management (ITIL-related disciplines).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Can interface with, and gain the respect of stakeholders at all levels and roles in the company.
• Is a confident, energetic self-starter, with strong interpersonal skills.
• Has good judgment, a sense of urgency, results-oriented and has demonstrated commitment to high standards of ethics, regulatory compliance, customer service and integrity.

Safety National is a leading specialty insurance and reinsurance provider. Our culture is built upon relationships, which allow us to demonstrate our expertise gained through our rich 80-year history. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tokio Marine, Inc., we appreciate the benefits and support provided by our affiliation with one of the top 10 insurance companies in the world.

A Benefits Structure That Puts Employees First

Safety National‘s approach to benefits reaches far beyond competitive fixed compensation. Instead, we construct a total rewards benefits package for each valued member of our team. Highlights include incentive award bonuses, an annual holiday bonus, and profit-sharing contributions. Other exceptional benefits include generous healthcare coverage, a 401(k) match, enhanced paid caregiver leave, and family-forming benefits for adoption, surrogacy, and fertility. We also promote balance by offering a hybrid working environment and several employee appreciation events throughout the year. Apply today to learn more about our total rewards approach.

Safety National is committed to fair, transparent pay and we strive to provide competitive, market-based compensation. In our vision to be First with Co-Workers, compensation is only one piece of the comprehensive total rewards package we offer. The target salary range for this position is $122,000 to $196,000. Compensation for the successful candidate will consider the candidate‘s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, experience and geographic location.

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