Job ID: 10307
Location: Houston, Texas
Category: IT
Employment Type: Contract
Date Added: 03/07/2025
Job Description
Location: Houston, TX
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Provides technical advisement to project teams to ensure compliance with IT security processes and standards.
- Ensure that security of the solutions/systems developed in support of the business are aligned with company enterprise architecture, technical standards, and technology roadmaps.
- Demonstrates either a wide breadth of security architectural experience across multiple technical domains (e.g. network security, identity security, endpoint security, cloud security) or is recognized as an expert in a specific domain.
- Ensures security solutions will work together as a zero-trust fabric to achieve intended risk-based business outcomes.
- Plays a critical role in pre-planning of new and existing security architectures
- Interpret business needs and requirements when designing and developing technical security architectures to deliver the desired business capabilities
- Leverages security architectural experience and expertise across a wide variety of technology domains including infrastructure, data management, systems integration, and application development, cloud, and endpoint
- Collaborates between IT Security architecture colleagues for continuous learning and is curious to learn from peer architect colleagues for extending self-knowledge base
- Performs an active role in Security Architecture Reviews as part of the Risk Assessment process
Basic Requirements
- CISSP or CISM certification
- 7+ years of experience IT Security Architecture and services
- 100% in-office
Preferred Requirements:
- IT Security certifications such as TOGAF, CSSLP, SCRUM Master, SAFe Architect, Network Security, PCNSE, Wireless, IAM/ADM, Cloud (Cloud Solutions Architect Expert and Cloud Security Engineer Associate
- 7-10 years of security experience across multiple technical disciplines: API Management, Cloud Security Architecture, Identity Management/Multi-factor/Directory Services, Routers/switches, Firewalls/VPN client, VPN tunnels, Endpoint Security Tools, Operating System Best Practices, Cloud Management Gateway, Patching, Mobility, or Device Management (MDM)
- Ability to research new solutions to document best practices to ensure they are implemented and documented as part of the IT Security Reference Architecture
- Experience with Visio and/or similar architectural design systems
- Advanced proficiency in authentication, authorization, and security policies
- Advanced understanding of the practical ways to apply security standard methodologies in new situations
- Advanced understanding Cloud best practices on leveraging the capabilities to secure by design
- Intermediate knowledge of cloud security products as part of a cloud strategy
- Intermediate knowledge of on-prem and cloud Directory Services, SSO, SAML, and MFA
- Intermediate knowledge of network switches, routers, firewalls, DMVPN, S2S IPSEC VPN, and HTTPS client VPN
- Basic awareness of SASE solutions to provide least privilege/RBAC access
- Basic knowledge of OT systems as they pertain to the IE62443 for ICS Security
- Takes ownership of actions and follows through on commitments by holding others accountable and standing up for what's right
- Delivers positive results through realistic planning to accomplish goals
- Builds effective solutions based on available information and makes timely decisions that are safe and ethical
- Documentation skills through both whitepapers and architectural diagrams to present the pros and cons, risk evaluation, and business value for potential solutions
- Perform security architecture design reviews to document solutions to be implemented to match best practices and set a standard for deviations and exceptions to be made
- Merger and Acquisition experience
