Security Architect - Providence, United States - IGT

IGT

Verified Company

Providence, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Location:
Providence, RI, US, 02903 West Greenwich, RI, US, Requisition ID: 15128
Overall Objective and Purpose:
Responsible for providing consultative, technical research and analytical support in one of the following areas of information security:

Assessments for site related effort, either jurisdiction or enterprise locations
Trends, standards, best practices, concepts and solutions
Product design, selection, configuration, hardening, optimization, and maintenance
The information security architect partners with stakeholders across the organization to securely achieve the functional and nonfunctional requirements of business initiatives.

Responsibilities:

Assists Manager in providing for the safekeeping and integrity of enterprise assets by maintaining systems and controls that prevent unauthorized access, modification, disclosure, and/or deletion of information from production systems networks and resources.
Understands the ISMS policy and procedures and is able to use that knowledge to provide insight when assessing and configuring security tools.
Advises Manager of changes in technical, legal and regulatory arenas affecting information security and computer crime.
Provides advocacy during the design and development of network security focusing on firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems, Digital Signatures, Certificate Authorities, PKI's, encryption schemas, routers, and centralized authentication and access control software.
Provides security alerts on hardware/software as they become available.
Monitors and alerts on changes in hardware, software, telecommunications, facilities, and user requirements for enterprise to ensure that security is not compromised or degraded.
Supports audit activity associated with enterprise tool compliance management
Leads the design & establishment of the Information Security Management System
Leads maintenance and assessment of ISMS as pertains to enterprise.
Serves as a security technical analyst and advisor on company initiatives to evaluate new technology resources for program compliance by effectively testing solutions using industry standard evaluation criteria, which includes the delivery of formal papers and technical reports on test results and findings.
Participate in solution architecture design; lead security efforts assisting with the integration and initial implementation of solutions.
Stay abreast of new security technologies and integrate them into the security architecture design where appropriate.

Scope:

Complexity: Functions Responsible for or Influenced

High

Influence on Information Security across the organization
Diversity: Locations Responsible for or Influenced

High

Influence on enterprise
Typical Job Problems and Difficulties
Ensuring the security of the company's security policy across multiple sites, platforms and customers
Financial Accountability

General:

Extent decisions governed by procedures or referred up
Low some actions are dictated by policy / procedure or complex issues must be escalated to management for resolution
Standard requirements for research and analysis
Provides security architecture research and analysis in a liaison capacity to all areas of technology development & infrastructure within any Systems Solutions & Delivery organization.
Opportunity and consequence of typical errors (supervision)
Frequent with high impact systems are used globally
Frequency and complexity of internal business contacts
Frequent with high complexity deal with business issues on a daily basis
Frequency and complexity of external business contacts
Networking with agencies and CSIRTs outside the organization to stay abreast of threats and countermeasures.
Physical (% time: travel, operating machinery, environmental etc.)

Education:

Minimum education
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS, or related field preferred
Years Experience
5 years experience in information security
Expertlevel knowledge of security architecture principles, frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) technologies.
Essential special training requirements
CISSP certification desired, SANS
GIAC certification is a plus.
Proven and demonstrated accomplishments in the Information Security field. Member of various Information Security Organizations (i.e., ISSA, SANS, ISC2, ESF, etc.) preferred.

Other skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Must have excellent project management skills, including the ability to plan, organize, & prioritize multiple projects to ensure target dates & goals are achieved.
Experience with Networking Security,; practical experience with firewalls; perimeter protection, virtual private networks (VPN); intrusion detection in depth; advanced incident handling and forensics practices.

Keys to Success: