CYBER SECURITY ARCHITECT

Role: Cyber Security Architect Duration: 8+Months Vendor/Client: Apex/Santander Location: Hybrid in any of the following: Boston (MA), Holmdel (NJ), Dallas (TX), Miami (FL), or NYC (NY) Required Skills• • Ability to design and assess business applications or solutions in financial services. • Knowledge of financial applications, infrastructure, network, cryptography, IAM, and risk management. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English • Should have experience in US banking systems and regulations. • Collaborate with project teams and architects from various domains such as enterprise architecture, data architecture, engineering, and infrastructure. • Minimum 12 years of prior relevant experience. • Minimum 3 years of financial services experience Position Overview: • Assess architectural patterns for service account authentication, Privileged Access Management, DevSecOps 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 • Share cloud technology expertise with application architects and provide consultative support to application teams including assessment of connectivity requirements, VNet/VPC, and subnet design and recommendations Required Skills: • Designed application authentication and authorization solutions including Single-Sign-On, Multi-Factor Authentication, OAuth, OpenID Connect, Sentinel, Dome9, Qualys, 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 • Familiar with cloud automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible) and cloud provided automation tools (Azure Resource Manager Templates). • 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. Cloud Computing: • Thorough understanding and experience with AZURE & AWS native controls • Good knowledge / hands-on experience in the following in AZURE & AWS • 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) • Security Events and Incident Management (SEIM) • Familiarity with OWASP and integrations with static code analysis and dynamic code analysis tools. • Qualifications • Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience. • Minimum 12 years of prior relevant experience including prior management experience. • Minimum 3 years of financial services experience • Advanced Information Security Certification from (ISC)2, ISACA or equivalent (CISSP, CRISC, CCSP, etc.) Core Must-Haves: • Ability to design and assess business applications or solutions in financial services. • Knowledge of financial applications, infrastructure, network, cryptography, IAM, and risk management. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English • Should have experience in US banking systems and regulations. • Collaborate with project teams and architects from various domains such as enterprise architecture, data architecture, engineering, and infrastructure. • Minimum 12 years of prior relevant experience. • Minimum 3 years of financial services experience Thanks & Regards, Naveen Sai - Technical Recruiter Thought wave Software and Solutions 314 N. Lake St, Suite 6, Aurora IL 60506 Desk: 6302168656 EXTN: 156 Mobile: 4307552553 Email : naveen@thoughtwavesoft.com Website:www.thoughtwavesoft.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/naveen-chakra-sai-kodi-0b79aa131