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ABOUT THE ROLE
The Platform Security Architect is a critical technical role responsible for ensuring the secure design and compliance of the platform's enterprise architecture. The Platform Security Architect will assist in ensuring systems complete needed steps in order to receive Authority to Operate, including but not limited to architectural design, System Security Plan, and compliance with organization design patterns.  to effectively and securely support the organization in meeting specific business technology needs.  This candidate will be considered a technical expert. Ideal candidates will have the following expectations, execute architecture design reviews to evaluate security controls and identify opportunities to enhance the security posture of the Commonwealths Platform services, build relationships with supplier infrastructure architects and engineering leads to disseminate and explain secure design methodologies and policies. Ideal candidates will also understand the landscape and components of cutting-edge architectures and the methods to securely deploy them.
Duties/Responsibilities:
• As part of a team, ensure the adoption of security architecture and engineering initiatives in order to effectively and securely support the organization in meeting specific business technology needs.
• Review solutions to be deployed in cloud and on-premise environments
•Assist with Architectural design documentation and System Security Plan documentation
•Monitor and guide systems to ensure Authority to Operate is achieved in a timely manner
• Understand technical security issues and the implications to the Platform and be able to communicate them to management and other business leaders.
• Responsible for guiding the design and implementation of secure solutions and services across the Platform.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of IT industry best practices, technologies, architectures, and emerging technologies.
• Must have knowledge and understanding to be able to configure and implement security solutions to reduce risk to an acceptable level.
• Understand emerging security technologies and determine the appropriate use within business applications.
• Must be able to provide technical guidance and foster a collective understanding of data flows and security issues encountered in both premise based and cloud applications and services.
• Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies
• Must be able to incorporate business drivers, needs and strategies to address future business / technology needs.
• Work in teams for secure application and/or infrastructure solution architecture.
• Collaborate with our Governance organization and functions including Internal Audit, Legal and Compliance, Privacy, and Sourcing to ensure that the Platform maintains a strong cybersecurity posture.

Required/Desired Skills

Skill

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Experience providing high-level design and architecture diagrams

Required

8

technically validating solutions and connecting business, data, security, systems, and other technical and non-technical architectures

Required

8

Familiarity with open architecture and cybersecurity architecture principles that achieve cybersecurity framework goals.

Required

8

Familiar with encryption technologies used in commercial operating systems, including Public Key Infrastructures-continued

Required

8

symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, certificate trust stores and the use of key escrow for discovery and legal purposes

Required

8

At least 8 years of experience in network and endpoint security architecture

Required

8

Familiarity with protocols commonly used in commercial networks, such as SMB, RPC, HTTP, SQL

Required

8

Familiar with multi-tiered network applications, common ports and protocols used in those communications

Required

8

Familiar with Vulnerability Scoring (CVSS) and exploitation mechanisms of common vulnerability types (overflows, cross-site-scripting, SQL injection)

Required

8

Experience working with Cloud Native architecture paradigms, patterns, and security methodologies.

Required

6

Familiarity with NIST, IRS 1075, HIPAA, FedRAMP and other cybersecurity framworks

Required

8

Familiar with methodologies for scalable, automated creation of System Security Plan, and Authority To Operate, Attestation & Validation

Required

4

Candidate should have a background in general security practices such as identity and access management (IAM)-continued

Required

8

Experience leading the alignment of on-going activities in support of critical State & Federal mandates such as -continued

Required

8

Continuous Diagnostics and Monitoring (CDM), Executive Orders related to cybersecurity, and guidance from OMB and NIST

Required

8

Familiarity with open architecture and cybersecurity architecture principles that achieve cybersecurity framework goals

Required

8

Desired Skills / Certification: • AWS Certified Security • Azure Architect Certification • Google Architect Certification

Desired

0

Desired Skills/Certs (continued)- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) • Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)

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