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Security Architect

Security Architect

ABC WorldwideCape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
30+ days ago
Job description

Security Architect

This role will be responsible for providing technical security advice and guidance with a focus on the Group / South Africa organisation. This candidate will be involved in multiple change projects and be responsible for producing and publishing tailored Security best practice guidance.

Key Responsibilities

  • Providing security advice requirements and guidance to the business when delivering new systems or updates to existing to ensure Security by design.
  • Performing security-focused risk assessment on new systems / services and changes to existing to ensure they are within risk tolerance.
  • Working with the business to review designs and ensure that they are in line with existing security principles patterns standards and best practise.
  • Work with the business to define document and implement core security patterns standards and guidelines.
  • Reviewing the current security processes within your area of focus to ensure optimisation and coverage.
  • Be the initial security point of contact for your region and route any questions to the relevant teams.
  • Work with the wider security architecture team to ensure a standardised approach to security is defined and followed.
  • Collaborate with IT teams to make sure the correct security controls and measures are in place before implementation.

Requirements :

  • Bachelors degreeor equivalent experiencein computer science IT engineering or related field
  • An MSc Information Securityor equivalentwould bean advantage.
  • Information Security and / or Information Technology certifications such as CISSP etc. are preferred.
  • Azure Security Certifications are preferred.
  • Experience of common frameworks such as NIST CIS ISO27k and MITRE
  • Experience in using SABSA valuable
  • Review solution designs and recognise security concerns.
  • Work with vendors to understand the mitigations and make recommendations.
  • Be able to pragmatically review and understand where the security risk could outweigh the business benefits.
  • Represent both the business to security and security to the business.
  • Help make the business understand the importance of considering security in designs.
  • Ability to support the business in the delivery of security requirements.
  • Understanding of Threat Modelling frameworks and implementation e.g. STRIDE
  • Ability to deconstruct complex environments and navigate conflicting project requirements.
  • Work with the wider security team to mature security processes and patterns.
  • Prior experienceworkingin Information securityis essential.
  • Prior experienceof working as a security architect is essential.
  • Prior experienceof creating security artefacts is preferred.
  • Key Skills

    APIs,Pegasystems,Spring,SOAP,.NET,Hybris,Solution Architecture,Service-Oriented Architecture,Adobe Experience Manager,J2EE,Java,Oracle

    Employment Type : Full Time

    Experience : years

    Vacancy : 1

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