We are seeking a skilled Cloud Solutions Architect that will need to have deep experience in cloud application, infrastructure and data security, specifically on AWS platforms. The Cloud Solutions Architect will be highly involved in contributing to new customer architecture designs, reviewing and recommending the appropriate security monitors, defenses and countermeasures at each layer of the infrastructure stack, resulting in robust, reliable and secure cloud platform.
Core Responsibilities
- Analyze, research, recommend and implement advanced security solutions for a global scale enterprise software platform hosted on the public cloud, with a strong emphasis on the infrastructure and data store layers.
- Evangelize cloud infrastructure security best practices to all the engineering teams.
- Develop tools to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities.
- Write reports on assessment-based findings and proposals for security enhancement.
Minimum Qualifications
- Detailed technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure and tools such as; AWS, Terraform and Ansible.
- Experience in security systems, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems and vulnerability scanning tools.
- Adequate knowledge of web related technologies (Web applications, Web Services, Service Oriented Architectures, Micro-services, Containerization of services) and of network/web related protocols. This includes very basics of web like using REST protocol, using JSON data format.
- Interest in all aspects of security research and development
- Masters/Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or related field (in lieu of degree, 4 years of relevant work experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with cloud architecture security tools and best practices
- Experience with microservices architecture and docker containers
- Thorough knowledge of JavaScript and Web Standards
- Familiarity with client side MVC frameworks, preferably React.js
- Experience with Node.js for Server Side JavaScript development
- Versant in OWASP standards and applying its tenets across the entire application stack
