At Hexaware Technologies, we are a leading global IT Services company, dedicated to driving digital transformation and innovation for businesses around the world. Founded in 1990, Hexaware has grown into a global trusted partner for enterprises, offering comprehensive AI empowered services including IT Consulting, Application Development, Infrastructure and Cloud Management and Business Process services. At Hexaware we are a community of creative, diverse, and open-minded Hexawarians creating smiles through the power of great people and technology. We pride ourselves on our people-centric culture and commitment to sustainability. Our diverse team of over 30,000 professionals across 30 countries is driven by a shared passion for innovation and excellence. We foster a collaborative environment where creativity and continuous learning are encouraged, enabling our employees to thrive and grow.
Cloud Security Architect
Reston, VA (Hybrid – 3 days onsite, 2 days remote)
Full time with Hexaware
Job Description
- Interpret security and technical requirements into business requirements and communicate security risks to relevant stakeholders ranging from business leaders to engineers.
- Provide subject matter expertise on information security architecture and systems engineering to other IT and business teams.
- Provide input and feedback on security architectures.
- Execute security architectures for cloud cloud/hybrid systems.
- Employ cloud-based APIs when suitable to write network/system level tools for safeguarding cloud environments.
- Automate security controls, data and processes to provide improved metrics and operational support.
- Apply adept understanding and experience with systems automation platforms and technologies.
- Involve in efforts that shape the organization’s security policies and standards for use in cloud environments.
- Direct and influence multi-disciplinary teams in implementing and operating Cyber Security controls.
- Collaborate with application developers and database administrators to deliver creative solutions to difficult technology challenges and business requirements.
- Meeting with business teams and understanding their short term and long-term technical/business requirements.
- Supporting any issues related to the business applications and testing.
- Performing technical/business demo on the completed business requirements
- Stay abreast of emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and controls.
- Spot and execute new security technologies and best practices into the company’s Cloud offerings.
Qualifications:
- Education: Employers seek individuals with a minimum of bachelor’s degree in information systems or computer science, but a High school diploma / GED with extensive Information Systems or Computer Science experience is also accepted
- Strong familiarity with Linux and Windows operating systems and cloud provider ecosystems like Amazon AWS
- Practical knowledge of AWS foundation services related to compute, network, storage, content delivery, administration and security, deployment and management, automation technologies.
- Robust micro services programming (AWS Lambda, Docker, etc.)
- Extensive experience architecting, designing, and programming applications and ample experience in high level programming languages such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Visual Basic
- Capability architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability
- DevOps know-how building and deploying infrastructure with cloud deployment, build and test automation technologies like ansible, chef, puppet, docker, Jenkins, etc.
- Familiarity using AWS Cloud Services (EC2, DynamoDB, API Gateway, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Route 53, etc.)
- Understanding of complex enterprise environments and current technology areas like cloud and mobility
- Certification: It is important that applicants for the cloud security engineer position have CISSP or equivalent security-related industry certifications and AWS Associate or higher Certification
- Communication skills: In executing their duties, cloud security engineers must communicate with various audiences, including business leaders, engineers, clients, and team members. It is important that they have great verbal communication skills to convey information to the relevant audience. They also require exceptional written communication skills, documentation, and reporting
- Teamwork abilities: The Cloud Security Engineer is expected to work with various multi-disciplinary teams, so it is vital that they are team-oriented individuals with priority on the successful completion of group goals
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills: It is also essential that applicants have the necessary technical skills to constantly monitor systems to identify threats and vulnerability, execute security architecture, and ensure there are no external threats.
Equal Opportunities Employer:
Hexaware Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Hexaware are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. We do not discriminate based on race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, parental status, gender reassignment, or any other status protected by law. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
