Senior Security Architect Job Description

 

The Business Entity
Working as part of the CX delivery team, the role of Senior Security Architect is responsible for assisting customers in the planning, creation, maintenance and management of IT security strategy, architecture models and their components. They are also required to help the customer to interpret, use and apply information contained within IT architecture to inform a range of business improvement activities, particularly those involved in the plan, design, development, enhancement and maintenance of security systems. The Senior Security Architect is able to guide and support delivery teams in the delivery execution of defined architectures and roadmaps. 

The Team
With a varied workload and travel schedule, working as part of a dynamic and highly skilled team, the position offers interesting work for knowledgeable and experienced consulting engineers with strong cyber security expertise and developed customer-facing consulting skills. This is a senior solution architect  role for the region covering customers across the GC.

Role & Responsibilities:
Recommend and participate in activities related to the plan, design, development and maintenance of the security architecture related to cyber resilience ，more focus on financial services industry and high-tech manufacture industry.

Define security strategy ,roadmap and delivery phases to attain target state enterprise security architecture along customer’s digital transformation journey.Deliver architectures for various cyber resilience capabilities that include but not limited to Zero Trust Architecture, SASE, Cloud and Cloud/Hybrid security, Cloud and Cloud-native workload protection, network segmentation, device identity, data protection and encryption, FSI regulatory compliance and visibility, cyber defense and SOC.Deliver high-level solution design that can overlay and imbed security controls in underlying IT and network infrastructure like data center, enterprise network, and cloud.Design and identify requirements for streamlining security operations and the automation for the operation of security capabilities across the IT segments.Design and identify requirements and security solutions for security monitoring, compliance, detection and response.Establish a defense in depth approach-based enterprise security architecture identifying requirements for core capabilities of prevention, protection, detection and response and recovery with different enterprise network segments. Research overall security solutions on the market for particular technical requirements and business needs.Work with account and sales teams as the evangelist and trusted advisor to position Cisco’s security vision. Work with customers, partners and account teams in the formulation of project execution and delivery strategies.Conduct and actively participate in meetings related to the designated projects with local customers and partners.Advise and recommends enterprise architecture strategies, processes and methodologies.Recommend  and  participate in  the  analysis,  evaluation  and development  of  enterprise  long term  strategic  and  operating  plans  to  ensure  that  the  customers  objectives  are  consistent  with  the enterprise’s long term business objectives.Minimum qualifications:

10+ years’ experience defining and implementing whole enterprise security architecture. Deep knowledge and experience in security capabilities of software defined networking, cyber defense, penetration testing, etc.Experience in delivery of security architecture covering data center, cloud and cloud/hybrid, network core, WAN, branch and edge, and understanding of different technologies across cyber security and IT infrastructure.Extensive experience with enterprise security architecture best practices and goals.Excellent communication skill, ability to present and communicate the proposed solution and service offerings, articulate business case for security investments to business professionally with customer’s key stakeholders (CSO, CIO, architecture office, etc. ).Thought leadership and motivational skills.Critical analysis and decision making skills.