Braintrust – Principal Cloud Security Architecture Consultant [REMOTE] – USA

Job title: Principal Cloud Security Architecture Consultant

Company: Braintrust

Job description:
• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
• LOCATION: United States only - Remote (TimeZone: PST/CIST | Partial overlap)
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $135 – $150/hr
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40hr/week - Long-term

THE OPPORTUNITY

Requirements
• *FOR CONSIDERATION YOU MUST BE A US CITIZEN**

Proactively assist cross-functional teams in department-wide solutions

Continually re-learn applicable technologies that have value to the organization

Seeks out new technologies that may have value to the organization

Stay informed as to industry developments

Define enterprise security architecture across all business areas

Identify potential process redesign and implications associated with designs

Identify and develop operational plans across technologies and/or across systems

Ensure the right people from across the enterprise participate in technical design and vendor selection for projects

Contribute to technical design, decision-making, and tactical planning at the enterprise level

Anticipate and communicate environment impacts

Effective follow-up and communication of problems as they occur

Promotes adherence to enterprise standards and the common way of implementing technology (Enterprise Reference Architecture, Software Development Lifecycle)

Participates in Architecture Review Meetings/Boards to ensure solutions align with enterprise business model

Drives and fosters integration and communication across technology groups and projects, helps create a sense of architecture community by promoting positive development of technical job families

Leads, supports and influences the achievement of the mission, goals, and objectives of the department and corporation

Establishes and maintains working relationships with other IT teams at the project level

Other duties as assigned.

Postion Specfic Responsibilities

Provides expert-level information security knowledge and consulting to IT and business teams

Defines information security project objectives for systems and technical infrastructure implementation consistent with strategic direction

Define enterprise cloud security architecture across all business areas

Suggests technology or process improvements to IT

Leadership and the architecture community to reduce security risks to the company

Stays informed on information security industry developments and emerging technologies that may have value to the company.

Represents IT Security in cross-departmental meetings and decision-making activities.

Minimum Job Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of professional work experience and education

10 years of work experience within the Information

Technology discipline, that includes at least 7 years in the field of information security and at least 4 years in security architecture for modern cloud-based large enterprise systems

Prior experience leading project teams and shepherding multiple project efforts at the same time

Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure & cloud networking practices

Expert knowledge of cloud security architecture concepts for public SaaS, PaaS and IaaS platforms.

Experience developing a security tooling strategy for multi- cloud environments.

Experience working with cloud native authentication and authorization protocols in an enterprise IAM setting.

Experience guiding DevOps teams in the adoption of application security strategies and tooling that can integrate with existing application delivery platforms.

Expert knowledge of computer or network systems hardware and software theory, practice, concepts and technology

Excellent partnering, negotiation and communication skills; able to create “buy-in” from other employees

Excellent ability to understand complex business and technical issues with awareness and balance of the company’s position within its industry and overall marketplace

Excellent ability to consult across multiple technology areas, to perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and solution implementation

Excellent ability to lead technical direction at the enterprise level and across multiple projects or technology areas

Excellent ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems

Excellent ability to understand the broader implications of situations; identify potential problem areas and execute

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ABOUT THE HIRING PROCESS:

Qualified candidates will be invited to do a screening interview with the Braintrust staff. We will answer your questions about the project, and our platform. If we determine it is the right fit for both parties, we'll invite you to join the platform and create a profile to apply directly for this project.

C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. But if you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around your consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.

Braintrust values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

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Location: USA

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