Sr. Cloud Security Architect (Hybrid)

Sr. Cloud Security Architect (Hybrid)
Our client, a premier global media and entertainment company, is actively seeking a motivated Sr. Cloud Security Architect. The Cloud Security Architect is a technology and process focused thought-leader with an emphasis in public cloud architecture and engineering. As a lead member of the cloud security team, the Cloud Security Architect will help support the infosec functions of policy shaping, architectural reviews, compliance, and assessment while providing direct guidance to product and engineering teams for all public cloud related matters in Azure, Google Cloud Platform and AWS.

This hybrid position is a 6+ month contract with the potential to extend or convert to full-time. If this opportunity is well-aligned with your experience and goals, we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities for Sr. Cloud Security Architect:

• Act as a Cloud Security Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Infosec department.
• Identify opportunities to reduce cloud security risk for client, to solution, and to lead implementations.
• Create design artifacts to enable members of the Cloud Security team to implement solutions (built in-house or purchased from vendor).
• Partner with product teams to design secure network and serverless architectures.
• Provide strong IAM Policy guidance for least privileged access to product teams.
• Review cloud architecture and AI/ML workflows to advise development teams on strong security design principles and identification of issues prior to deployment of systems or features.
• Interface with Public Cloud providers to improve the security feature set of their products.
• Interface with cloud security vendors to evaluate features and determine proof-of-value.
• Mentor junior members of the team.
• Create and maintain documentation as it relates to cloud security designs/configurations, processes, standards, and recommendations.
• Collaborate with senior management and department leaders to assess near- and long-term cloud security needs.
• Stay current with the latest cloud threat mitigation tools and techniques

Requirements/Qualifications for Sr. Cloud Security Architect:

• Experience with securing/building Azure cloud environments
• Proficient in at least one scripting language (python, Nodejs, Golang).
• Core understanding of IP Networking, routing, VPNs.
• Hands-on experience with some the following:
• Security administration in Azure
• Developing & Securing Serverless applications
• Infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
• Command Line experience (Bash, PowerShell, AWS-CLI)
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Cloud Network (VPC) engineering
• Cloud native security related tools (Azure Defender for Cloud, AWS Guard Duty, Google Cloud Platform Security Center, WAF)
• GitHub Security

About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc: Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
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