Lead Cybersecurity Integrated Architect

Cox Enterprises • Atlanta, GA

202d • $119,600 - $199,400

About The Position

Cox Automotive is seeking a Cybersecurity Lead Architect to join our Information Technology team. This role involves communicating cybersecurity guidelines to engineering and business teams, advising on architecture decisions, and assisting with cybersecurity control implementation. The successful candidate will contribute to identifying and mitigating cybersecurity risks, provide architecture advice across major programs, and engage with cybersecurity peers to create a cohesive department. The position requires collaboration with various teams to review existing architecture, identify gaps, and recommend security enhancements. Additionally, the Cybersecurity Lead Architect will educate stakeholders on best practices and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 6 years of experience in a related field.
• At least 4 years focused on cybersecurity.
• Relevant experience with designing, securing, or operating AWS infrastructure and services.
• Ability to clearly articulate the objective of specific cybersecurity policies and procedures to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent customer service skills, writing, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to develop a strong and productive working environment with key stakeholders.
• Consultative nature to work through controversial or complex topics.
• Evaluate risks and recommend actions based on impact and likelihood of the risk to the business.
• Knowledge of current cybersecurity and technology architectures such as zero trust, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, virtualization, containerization, DevSecOps, and software-defined networking.
• Creatively solving complex cybersecurity challenges while exhibiting solid, pragmatic business acumen.
• Experience utilizing Agile methodologies.
• Initiating change and deploying solutions in Fortune 1000 companies.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., ISO 27000, NIST, FFIEC) and industry relevant regulations (e.g., GDPR, FFIEC, GLBA).

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the development and design of cybersecurity standard methodologies to all layers of the hosting and application stack in both cloud and on-premises environments.
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM), cryptography / key management, secrets management, access controls and security protocols (e.g., multi-factor, SAML, OAuth, OIDC).
• Experience with application security implementations and standard methodologies.
• Extensive technology knowledge and recognized expertise in several areas including Python, .NET, Java, Spring frameworks, Oracle, serverless, cloud patterns, cloud service and user authentication.
• Experience with firewall, web application firewalls, and other edge services as well as deep understanding of DMZ and other network architectures.
• AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Experience establishing a strategy for and implementing cloud enterprise solutions in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• A strong understanding of cloud containers and/or serverless platforms (e.g., EKS, ECS, Lambda, Fargate).
• Experience in national critical infrastructure industries (telecommunications, financial services, defense, government, etc.).
• Big four consulting or Fortune 500 company experience.
• Relevant industry certification (e.g., CISSP, CEH, OSCP, Azure, AWS, CISM, CISA).

Responsibilities

• Communicate cybersecurity guidelines to engineering teams and business teams and support their adoption of the guidelines.
• Be integrated with and in continuous contact with engineering teams to advise on their architecture decisions and assist with cybersecurity control implementation.
• Contribute to the identification and mitigation of cybersecurity risks based on threat modeling of products and enterprise tools.
• Provide cybersecurity architecture advice and consultation across major program and solution levels.
• Engage with cybersecurity peers to create a cohesive cybersecurity department and share back internally regarding business specific activities.
• Act as the on the ground cybersecurity security representative to the product and engineering teams.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, infrastructure and engineering teams to review existing architecture, identify gaps and recommend security enhancements.
• Participate in security events and incident response to identify gaps in current design and propose solutions to prevent threats from reoccurring.
• Educate product and enterprise architects and engineers on cybersecurity best practices and standards.
• Partner with the legal and security governance, risk and compliance teams to ensure that cybersecurity architecture enables compliance with relevant regulatory and contractual requirements.

Benefits

• Flexible vacation policy allowing employees to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties.
• Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
• Additional paid time off for bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
• Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision).
• Retirement planning (401(k)).
• Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Industry: Telecommunications
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees