Cloud-Focused Software Security Architect

Cloud-Focused Software Security Architect

Position Overview

Cisco's Security Visibility and Incident Command team (SVIC) is looking for a Software Security Architect with extensive experience developing with/for cloud technologies and IaaS platforms such as Amazon Web Services,.

The ideal candidate must enjoy working in a fast-paced dynamic environment with a "take-charge" / "can-do" attitude and is able to demonstrate flexibility and resiliency. Successful candidate must be self-sufficient and be able to work with minimal supervision. Work with geographically distributed teams across different time zones. A strong cloud developer who works with cross-functional teams to create internal security-monitoring products for cloud-hosted offerings on various IaaS platforms, also creating solutions for automatic deployment of said security products.

Role & Responsibilities

In this highly visible role as a cloud-focused InfoSec Architect you will:

• Work with a highly skilled Data Engineering team, bringing your skills, innovations, and leadership to development innovative solutions to security problems
• Design and build high performance, scalable, complex and distributed systems - end to end
• Develop automated solutions, demonstrating measurable gains in business efficiency and effectiveness
• Develop security solutions for services/offerings hosted on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, and potentially other IaaS platforms
• Learn quickly on the job as SVIC tackles security solutions for IaaS platforms that may be new to you and others on the team
• Bring technical solutions to the leadership team, solicit feedback on solutions recommended, new product ideas with the team through design review, pair programming, code review and tech talks
• Document your solutions clearly and thoroughly and use that to train others on the team, including production support personnel
• Participate in Agile/Scrum teams, using sprints to deliver software solutions in an iterative manner

Skills & Qualifications

* 10+ years of experience with Python, HTML/CSS/JS, *nix /Bash

* Knowledge of Application/IaaS Platform/Cloud security best practices and implementation

* 4 to 6 years of experience with AWS services & features like S3, Lambda, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, VPC Flow logging

* Experience with Linux/UNIX systems and the best practices for deploying applications to those stacks

* Development / build tools: SBT/Maven, Git, Docker, containers

* Experience with micro-services application design

* Experience with DevOps development environment, CI/CD

* Experience in API Gateways, REST based services (server and client side)

* Experience with Data analytics, transformation, NoSQL, Parallel computing

* Ability to learn quickly on the job when introduced to new technologies

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills