Cybersecurity Architect - North Hills, NY / Atlanta, GA - Fulltime / Permanent Position

Cybersecurity Architect / Cloud Security Architect

North Hills, NY / Atlanta, GA (3 days onsite per week)

Fulltime / Permanent Position

Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 6 years of experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years of experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience in a related field; or 10 years’ experience in a related field.

At least 4 years focused on cybersecurity.

Relevant experience with designing, securing, or operating AWS infrastructure and services.

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.

Develop a strong and productive working environment with key stakeholders and collaborate closely with other Cox entities’ cybersecurity teams to implement cybersecurity best practices.

Consultative nature to work through controversial or complex topics to employees, leaders, and / or senior leadership.

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 across a variety of environments and deployments.

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 that will guide architectural requirements (e.g., GDPR, FFIEC, GLBA).

Collaborate with AI agents to create, validate, and assess architectural artifacts

Lead cross-functional teams in designing AI-enhanced solutions, establish standards for AI integration, and assess AI technologies within solution architectures.

Implement AI-driven architectural governance and compliance by defining robust AI governance frameworks and reference architectures.

Improve vendor tool assessments using AI to speed evaluations and minimize mistakes and unknowns.

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 or similar.

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, defence, government, etc.).

Big four consulting or Fortune 500 company experience.

Relevant industry certification (e.g., CISSP, CEH, OSCP, Azure, AWS, CISM, CISA).