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Job type full-time
Full job description
The america’s professional services organization (pso) is looking for an experienced & motivated staff architect with specialization in it securityPso influences the success of all projects by advising, architecting, coordinating, designing, and implementing fully functional technology solutions that meet our customers’ business needs while delivering a superior customer experience.
The staff architect (security) is a senior technical position requiring excellent interpersonal/listening skills, complex problem solving, big picture thinking and solution articulationWith a clear and agreed upon client vision, you will be responsible for scoping a solution to realize the vision.
The ideal candidate will partner with customers, vmware (vmw) pso sales for pre-sales support, worldwide consulting centers (wwcc) and several other vmw teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient security solutions that address customer business problems and accelerates time to value.
Teamwork is critically important to success in the role, as is creating and leveraging a strong network amongst your peers and internal/external teamsYou should be ready to take ownership of initiatives and programs to aid in the delivery of customer solutionsThe ideal resource will have a good mix of technical skills, business acumen, and a strong desire to delight our customers.
As a trusted customer advocate, you required to have a broad understanding of security concepts, industry standards around security frameworks and their applicability, current challenges, risk trends and solutions in the market spaceYou are expected to to help shape and execute strategies for complex security requirements for our customers using a broad array of vmw’s and third-party products, methodologies, processes & tools to meet customers’ requirements around homogeneous and heterogeneous environments.
The staff architect must have a broad knowledge of vmware’s catalog, how those technologies work together to a solution, and how to secure those solutions to build a secure, zero-trust, micro-segmented platform.
The ideal candidate must be driven with a proven track record in software/technology consulting skillsThe staff architect should maintain his or her knowledge of current security standards, threat identification and mitigation, and best practices.
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Responsibilities
Collaborate with cross-functional vmware teams which could consist of vmware pre-sales architects, engineers, product management, consulting, and support staff to architect, design and deploy security solutions to vmware customers.
Developing comprehensive security strategies & architectures such as zero trust for customers in green field and brown field environmentsDesign technical and policy driven solutions based on approved strategy.
Devising delivery approaches and roadmaps that can help customers realize their future state vision on securityAdept in leading a team of sme’s in executing these roadmapsVmware’s security portfolio includes cloud security, endpoint security, network security, workload security, workspace security and devsecops.
Review data collected from customer “security assessment” and customer review to determine security gaps and restraintsBuild c level course of action briefs to demonstrate gaps and threat postureDevelop strategy to meet action items identified from c level brief decision.
You will be responsible for scoping the solution and supporting conceptual design/client proposal generationThis includes estimation of effort calculations, defining service descriptions, risk identification/mitigation and drafting detailed work packages
Take ownership and accountability for programs or projects that you will be leadingWork as part of a wider program team or independently act subject matter expert on intrinsic security projects.
Where applicable, identify and develop use cases into high-quality solutions in the intrinsic security area that can be packaged as repeatable solutionsAssist in the development/refinement of our service offerings as well as content, best practices, and white papers in the security domain.
Participate actively in developing the intrinsic security practice by bringing together thought leadership & industry experiencePractice contributions span activities such as presenting to internal audiences, working with the vmw security business units on potential product issues or opportunities, presenting at tech summits (internal to vmw) and/or vmworld and/or vmugs(external), authoring blogs or tech papers, enabling other folks in the business, participating in architecture review boards and intrinsic security pods.
Actively demonstrate commercial awareness and stay within the scope of the contracted work.
Pre-requisites
Minimum 12-15 years’ overall experience in it security space with a minimum of 3-4 years of hands-on experience on delivering security strategies to c level audience, security roadmaps for large enterprises, security architectures on complex programs, developing execution plans and other strategic work in this space.
Maintain current, high-level technical knowledge of the entire vmware product portfolio and future product direction and expert level knowledge of the intrinsic security, which includes cloud security, endpoint security, network security, workload security, workspace security and devsecops.
Should possess recent, real-world experience in large, complex security implementation in a senior technical leadership roleShould have interacted with the c suite executives in developing and driving a security vision.
Should be able to provide technical leadership and quality oversight on projects that involves intrinsic security and have a fair grasp of enterprise networking concepts and experience in networking tools such as nsx & cisco.
Should have extensive experience and demonstrate knowledge in information security, risk management, cryptography, authentication methods, security protocols, and data analyticsThe architect should also be knowledgeable in vmware’s datacenter (vsphere), networking (nsx-t), end user computing (horizon), mobility (ws1), and security (carbon black) products and how they can be integrated to meet customer and industry security requirements.
Should possess some experience with security auditing and information risk management and control exposure.
Good oral and written communications skills, strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to interact efficiently with a large project management office and other technical teamsGather lessons learned and lead the lessons learned review with the client.
Certification and education
A degree (ms preferred) in information technology, computer science, computer security, or related field is required.
Certified information system security professional (cissp) or higher certification
Vmware vcap level certification
Vcdx, ccna (desirable)
Cisa – certified information system auditor(desirable)
Crisc – certified risk and information systems control(desirable)
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Category : services and consulting
Subcategory: consultant
Experience: business leadership
Full time/ part time: full time
Posted date: 2021-09-20
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