CyberSecurity Architect

Santander

23h

About The Position

Santander is a global leader and innovator in the financial services industry and is evolving from a high-impact brand into a technology-driven organization. Our people are at the heart of this journey and together, we are driving a customer-centric transformation that values bold thinking, innovation, and the courage to challenge what’s possible. This is more than a strategic shift. It’s a chance for driven professionals to grow, learn, and make a real difference. If you are interested in exploring the possibilities We Want to Talk to You!

Position Summary: The Security Architect is responsible for designing, developing, comprehensive security architectures, strategies, policies and programs to assess, prioritize, and mitigate business risk with technology controls in business applications. The role’s specific focus includes mitigating and managing cyber security threats to the cloud, ensuring systems availability, aligning with global regulatory risk and compliance requirements, managing systems and network complexity.

Requirements

• Designed application authentication and authorization solutions including Single-Sign On, Multi-Factor Authentication, OAuth, OpenID Connect, Sentinel, Dome9, Qualis, Azure Key Vault and related technologies for workloads moving to the cloud.
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban and SAFe Agile practices and strong aptitude to work in a DevOps culture and environment.
• Full-stack development experience building application software, test automation, and infrastructure as code
• Hands-on work experience working with SOAP and REST APIs, microservices design
• Experience in private network connectivity using Express Routes, Direct Connect, etc.
• Familiarity with load balancing technologies - ILB (Internal Load Balancers), Application Gateway, WAF (Web App Firewall), F5 appliance solutions, etc.
• Familiarity with network security principles (Network Security Groups, Application Security Groups), Private Link Services, Service Endpoint, Service Tags, etc.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience
• 7-10 years of relevant experience or demonstrated required level of proficiency
• Thorough understanding and experience with AZURE & AWS native controls
• Ability to configure, manage and apply Security best practices as per defined standards on Azure Security Center. Good knowledge / hands-on experience in the following:
• Network Security Groups and Micro-segmentation concepts
• UDR and Load balancers
• VPN Gateways and ExpressRoute connection
• Azure Firewalls
• Service tags and service endpoints
• NAT and PAT concepts
• Automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and automation scripts to support the Azure environment tools (Azure Resource Manager Templates)
• Operation Management Suite (OMS) queries using Kusto query language (KQL)
• Advanced Information Security Certification (ISACA or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Assess architectural patterns for service account authentication, Privileged Access Management, secdevops pipeline, security logging and monitoring, audit logging, and compliance guidance and monitoring.
• Responsible for protecting the Bank, customers and employees by mitigating and identifying technology threats to Santander.
• Provide expertise for cyber security technical and non-technical solutions; review and provide guidance enabling business system in the cloud while leveraging Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) in a manner that adheres to Santander information security policy and standards.
• Review and approve target state deployment topology, High-Level Architecture and Private Link interactions for the Public Cloud Workloads
• Provide consultative support to application teams including assessment of connectivity requirements, VNet/VPC, and subnet design and recommendations
• Other duties as assigned or requested by immediate supervisor

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level