Full Time

Security Architect – American Express Remote Jobs

Posted 1 year ago
Georgia
$20 - $30 per hour

Job Description

Job Type: Security Architect from home
Location: Georgia work from home
Company: American Express

Position Description:

To be successful, a Cyber Security Architect must have a thorough understanding of technology infrastructures such as firewalls, VPN, data loss prevention, IDS/IPS, web-proxy, WAF, anti-DDoS, and security audits. Outstanding applicants will be at ease dealing with a wide range of technologies, large-scale deployments, security issues, and network troubleshooting.

Responsibilities:

  • Designing, implementing, administering, monitoring, and improving security procedures for company data, systems, and networks.
  • Determine and establish the system security requirements.
  • Create thorough cyber security designs and computer security architecture.
  • Standard operating procedures and protocols should be developed and documented.
  • Security infrastructure devices must be configured and troubleshooted.
  • Provide technical solutions and new security technologies to assist in mitigating security vulnerabilities and automating repetitive processes.
  • Handling network and security issues
  • Reacting to all occurrences involving system and/or network security
  • Enabling the proper security procedures to secure the organization’s data and infrastructure
  • Engaging in the process of change management
  • Identifying and testing network and system vulnerabilities
  • Administrative activities on a daily basis, reporting, and communication with important parties
  • Provide complete reports that include assessment-based findings, outcomes, and recommendations for future system security enhancements.
  • Working in a varied, engaging, supportive, and courteous team environment with similarly tasked Engineers and Analysts.

Necessary abilities:

  • 5+ years of experience working as a Cyber Security Architect Understanding of risk assessment tools, systems, and techniques
  • Designing secure networks, systems, and application architectures is a plus.
  • Direct expertise with security technology implementations such as WAF, DAM, IPS/IDS, Anti-DDoS, Bot Detection, SIEM, Data Leakage Prevention, Proxy, Automation & Orchestration, and so on.
  • Planning, researching, and developing security policies, standards, and procedures experience
  • Competence in communicating network security issues to peers and management
  • Technical expertise in database and operating system security
  • Working knowledge of network security and networking technology, as well as system, security, and network monitoring tools
  • Comprehensive knowledge of the most recent security principles, methodologies, and procedures
  • Keeping up to date on technological capabilities and trends
  • Problem-solving abilities and the ability to function under duress
  • Knowledge of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) concept as well as well-known ports and services
  • A bachelor’s degree in computer science, cyber security, or a related discipline, or comparable work experience, is required.
  • Industry credentials in cyber security, including but not limited to PCNSE, CISSP, GSEC, CSSP, and CEH, are highly sought for.