Senior Security Architect

We are looking for an experiencedSecurity Architectto support our ‘Cloud Security Service’ in the Middle East. This role is particularly well-suited to a self-starting, experienced and motivated Architect, who has a proven track record in the security consulting field. The ideal candidate will have proven experience designing and securing Landing Zones (LZs) in cloud environments. You will be engaging with customers and the wider Rackspace organization to advise, develop and deliver innovative security solutions leveraging a wide range of public cloud services. The primary focus will be on helping customers to assess their cloud security posture and to ensure any subsequent cloud design and build is appropriately secured. Experience with AWS/GCP will be highly advantageous.

Key Accountabilities

• As part of a small, but fast-growing team, you will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) to advise and guide customers on their cloud security journey and establish a long-term trusted advisor role
• Engaging with customers to help assess their cloud security posture and to ensure any subsequent cloud design and build is appropriately secured. This may be applicable to a customer’s single cloud, or multi-cloud environment, or when a customer wishes to move its environment from on-premise to the cloud
• Provide guidance to customers on their cloud security roadmap and assist on defining the right-size cloud security controls
• Liaise closely with the customer’s architects and engineers and advise, design and deliver innovative cloud security Proof of Concepts
• Evolve existing Rackspace security services, as well as implement new ones, under the ‘Cloud Security Service’ banner.
• Establish best-practices for the consultancy resulting in standardized engagement models and repeatable ways-of-working
• Mentor and train other security architects within the wider Rackspace Security Solutions Architecture community on modern multi-cloud security domains and topics
• Evangelize the security cloud-native paradigm through the delivery of blogs, customer presentations and public speaking engagements
• Deliver high-quality work to customers as part of consulting engagements that can be delivered through workshops, presentations or security solutions architecture designs
• Actively identify opportunities for new engagements
• Contribute to RFI/RFP requests
• You have built specialist and demonstrable cloud security architectural knowledge in the following areas;Account governance, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Asset management and data protection, Infrastructure and platform security, Application security including threat modelling and secure CI/CD, Change management practice and detection capabilities, Boundary defence, Cloud Logging and Monitoring, Continues vulnerability and patch management systems, Incident response and threat mitigation, Cloud backup/recovery and disaster recovery (DR)

About Rackspace Technology

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