Cloud Security Architect

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Engineer to join our team at Elevance Health. As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for developing strategic and tactical plans for a comprehensive enterprise-wide information security program.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of policies, technical standards, guidelines, procedures, and other elements of an infrastructure necessary to support information security in compliance with established company policies, regulatory requirements, and generally accepted information security controls.
• Responsible for the selection and delivery of strategic network security, access control, and secure transaction/messaging solutions.
• Design a cloud native infrastructure environment in AWS from development environments through production environments utilizing Identity and Cybersecurity best practices.
• Mentor and consult with peers and customers.
• Configure systems and application monitoring, defining alerts and building appropriate dashboards.
• Integrate security tools, standards, and processes into cloud environments for IAM.
• Create new standards and best practices to increase effectiveness and visibility across a diverse environment.
• Establishes strategic vendor relationships for security products and services.
• Develops enterprise-wide security incident response plans and strategies that include integration with business, compliance, privacy, and legal constituents and requirements.
• Provides advanced level engineering design functions.
• Provides trouble resolution and serves as point of technical escalation on complex problems.
• Creates presentations and seeks IT and business management approval and acceptance of significant replacements or reconfigurations of major security technologies serving the Enterprise.
• Provides technical guidance and leadership to the technical engineers within the organization.
• Participates in the design of the enterprise architecture.
• Proposes opportunities to improve results based on targeted or continuous assessment.
• Researches relevant trends and activities in healthcare, business, competition, and regulatory environments; recommends strategy adjustments.
• Participates in enterprise planning activity, including vendor assessment, technology platform selection and retirement, prioritization, and integration.
• Routinely acts as a subject matter expert for executive management.

Requirements:

• Requires BS/BA in Information Technology or related field of study and a minimum of 10 years experience in systems administration and security aspects of information systems, access management, and network security technologies, network communications, computer networking, telecommunications, systems development and management, hardware, software, data, and people.
• Experience with multiple technical and business disciplines required.
• Or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Experiences, and Competencies:

• 3+ years hands-on experience with AWS.
• AWS Certified Solution Architect or Equivalent.
• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience of Terraform, AWS Cloud, Kubernetes, and Docker Container technology, CICD pipelines, and Automation.
• Hands-on design, development, and documentation of all processes and procedures.
• Expert knowledge and understanding of industry-accepted data processing controls and concepts strongly preferred as applied to.
• CISSP preferred and other advanced technical security certifications (e.g. Information Systems Security Architecture Professional, Information Systems Security Engineering Professional, Certification and Accreditation or equivalent certifications).
• Demonstrated understanding and experience with Identity and Access Management.
• Deep understanding and knowledge of IAM principles for GCP, AWS, and Azure.
• Familiarity with Security domain concepts such as SAML, OAUTH, OIDC, LDAP, SSO, ADFS, and Federation flow.
• Experience with Privileged Access solutions is a plus.
• Strong 'self-starter' and initiative to navigate complex subject matter in a large organization.
• Experience managing delivery of full-stack technical solutions.
• Exposure to agile product management including the ability to set vision, establish a roadmap, set goals, write user stories, and execute.
• Effectively lead or collaborate with cross-functional resources to manage and resolve interdependencies.
• Must be able to carry out verbal and/or written instructions.
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to work effectively in a team environment.
• Must have strong organizational skills with a proven ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects.

About Elevance Health:

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

How We Work:

At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes, and drive our shared success – for our consumers, our associates, our communities, and our business.

What We Offer:

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability benefits, 401(k) + match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs, and financial education resources, to name a few.

Hybrid Workforce Strategy:

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process. Candidates must reside within 50 miles or 1-hour commute each way of a relevant Elevance Health location.

Health and Safety:

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state, and local laws.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Accommodation:

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