Senior Security Architect to help assess and design the current Kubernetes and GCP services for security controls with a major banking client- 37453

Senior Security Architect to help assess and design the current Kubernetes and GCP services for security controls with a major banking client- 37453

Location: Hybrid - 2 days/week (likely Tuesdays/Thursdays)

Contract Duration: 4 months, possibility of extension or conversion to FTE

Schedule Hours: 9am - 5pm, Monday - Friday, 37.5 hrs per week

Story Behind the Need

• Business group: Cloud & Application Security Product and Architecture - team is a product group within Cloud and Applications Security. This team focuses mainly on strategy building.
• Project: Part of CAP (Cloud Acceleration Program) - Assess and design the current Kubernetes and GCP services for Security Controls to meet regulatory requirements

Typical Day in Role:

• Contribute to ensuring secure modern application infrastructure in cloud by developing security controls and principles in a GCP Kubernetes environment
• Network security in cloud is one of the crucial security domains, with a highly specialized experience required, and forms a fundamental building block in the entire cloud architecture.
• Collaborate with cloud infrastructure, DevOps and development teams to integrate security during the design and development phases.
• Provide mentorship and training to other team members on cloud security principles.
• Help develop test cases and drive Proof of Value (POV) to completion.
• Help develop a procedure.
• Contribute to system architecture.
• Establishing seamless integration between cloud and on-prem
• Evaluate existing integrations
• Form a connection when talking about the security tools for platform integration into cloud

Must Have Skills

1. 10+ years’ relevant progressive experience in IT
2. 3+ years' experience in Security Architecture/Integration/Implementation roles
3. 4+ years’ experience with Software Security Controls Architecting and Solutioning
4. 3+ years’ experience with GCP
5. 2+ years’ experience with Kubernetes

Nice-To-Have Skills

• Recent experience with and understanding of some of the following: CI/CD pipelines, networking, storage in GCP
• Experience with deployment and managing IaaS, PaaS & SaaS solutions

Degrees or certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field required, professional experience is a priority

• CISSP or similar security certifications are an asset

Best vs Average:

Ideal candidate has strong security architecture experience in a modern GCP cloud environment, with hands on deployment experience

Project: migration from SCA tool - to another vendor to the Cloud -on-prem to Cloud; a lot of integration work needed, SSO, LAM/WAM, JIRA integrations, Service Now - log monitoring, pipeline integration, artifact integration; working with MAST, APA, security engine, ESLM/SIEM; expectation is the Architect should be able to lead these integrations and migrations and have experience/understanding with all of these and hit the ground running with minimal training time

feedback: candidates should be able to form a connection when talking about the security tools for platform integration into cloud

Candidate Interview Format:

In person interview - will be at 44 King West on Tuesdays or Thursdays

- 1 Interview - 1 hour - panel technical and behavioral interview - technical scenario-based questions, will be solutioning live on paper/whiteboard - with Director and Architect