Enterprise Security Architect

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.

Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request.

As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that.

We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare.

Available Locations:

Austin, Texas, San Francisco, USA, DC, USA, London, UK, Lisbon, Portugal

About the Role

As an Enterprise Security Architect, you will play a key role in effectively designing defensible network architectures, defensible builds & configurations, security platforms and automation, assisting in secure tool and product development, and will help establish security standards and guidelines across the enterprise.

This role will lead security project work with technology peers for successful delivery and coach technology staff on appropriate security standards, processes, protocols and needs as they implement new technology into the organization.

What You'll Do

• Works out and designs complex security solutions.
• Leads projects to implement secure enterprise systems and identifies issues that could compromise data integrity or security.
• Develops security policies, procedures, and guidelines and recommends necessary changes to a given project team to ensure the company's systems are fully compliant with all applicable regulatory requirements and privacy laws.
• Creating and implementing enterprise security architecture models
• Utilizes open communication and managerial courage to ensure the standards, expectations and goals of the organization are respected and upheld.
• Serving as an advisor to engineering and development teams in security best practices and design.
• Leads security-related projects from inception to successful completion and is capable of effectively coaching technology staff on appropriate security protocols and needs as they implement new technology into the organization.
• Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel.
• Having wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Ensures an organization's security strategy is aligned with companies business goals.

Examples of Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Experience

10+ years of experience in an IT/Security related field, 5 of which as a security architect.

In-depth understanding of security concepts.

Understand how business, engineering, IT, and security processes align, and how to research, test, and implement solutions to complex objectives.

Able to anticipate challenges and steer the company towards growth.

In-depth knowledge of the following:

Database security concepts and practices

Securing data in transit, at rest and access

Cyber attacks (i.e. SQL/NoSQL injections, buffer overflow, etc.),

Data types and what and how they need to be protected

Defining data flows

Applicable regulatory compliance requirements

Discovering and classifying data and databases

Designing, creating, and maintaining data storage systems

Developing application programming interfaces (APIs)

Structured query language (SQL) and the like

Data structures, modeling, integration, security, optimization, etc

Data warehouse / lakes

NIST Frameworks

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

For Colorado, Illinois, Maryland and Minnesota based hires: Estimated annual salary of $168,000 - $206,000.

For Washington D

C based hires:

Estimated annual salary of $187,000 - $229,000.

For Bay Area based hires:

Estimated annual salary of $196,000 - $240,000.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.

Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

Medical/Rx Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Commuter Spending Accounts

Fertility & Family Forming Benefits

On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program

Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

Short and Long Term Disability Insurance

Life & Accident Insurance

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave

Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo :

We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare's enterprise customersat no cost.

Athenian Project :

We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.

:

We released to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver.

This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here's the deal - we don't store client IP addresses never, ever.

We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you'd like to be a part of?

We'd love to hear from you

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.

Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S.

export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.

All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.

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