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 problemsDesign and build high performance, scalable, complex and distributed systems – end to endDevelop automated solutions, demonstrating measurable gains in business efficiency and effectivenessDevelop security solutions for services/offerings hosted on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, and potentially other IaaS platformsLearn quickly on the job as SVIC tackles security solutions for IaaS platforms that may be new to you and others on the teamBring 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 talksDocument your solutions clearly and thoroughly and use that to train others on the team, including production support personnelParticipate 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