AWS Solution Architect

Extelligence is an intelligent partner that goes the extra mile. We provide customized information management solutions for major industries. Our team in Prague and Bucharest is working with international companies, transforming, and adding value to their business on a daily basis. We are growing quickly, and we are interested to bring more talented individuals into our team.

About the role:

The Client’s Mergers and Acquisition IT (M&A) is in need for an experienced Functional Security Architect (FSA) to assist them in acquisition due diligence. This includes, but is not limited to, network and application security reviews and security consultation of newly acquired companies as well as support of potential divestitures. M&A IT collaborates across scientific and business organizational boundaries, with a focus on maximizing the return of value for each acquisition while managing risk throughout the deal lifecycle. As a Functional Security Architect (FSA), you will support these strategic initiatives by providing subject matter expertise in the domain of end-to-end security architecture for typical enterprise services found across small, medium, and large companies including startups.

The FSA will work with the M&A deal teams and technology peers to review, identify, report, and eventually, ensure systems, applications, and networks of new companies are compliant to security best practices and processes. FSA will also consult with the new company’s IT staff, leadership and management, clients’ security standards, and approved security patterns while providing ongoing security consultation and expertise. M&A FSA responsibilities will include support of the following activities:

a) Review current state of security controls and architecture for a variety of core IT network designs, applications, and solutions including, but not limited to, scientific platforms, master data management systems, clinical trial systems, regulatory reporting solutions, 3rd party IT suppliers, as well as business systems that support HR, finance and operations, and other relevant business functions.

b) Review existing security processes along with operational changes, enhancements, and other releases related to production systems

c) Support and provide detailed recommendations (remediation plan) to new company’s leadership for remediation of identified security gaps and risks.

d) Articulate and present identified risks to clients security and compliance leadership

As part of daily activities, the FSA will ensure secure-by-design principles are being followed for applications and technical solutions that new company requires, to integrate into clients’ IT ecosystem by providing consultation and solution architecture recommendations.

The successful candidate will be a strong communicator with deep technical and security skills, especially pertaining to network security architecture, application security architecture, AWS and Azure Cloud architecture. The individual must be highly collaborative as they will need to work closely with application managers, platform engineers, 3rd party vendors, software developers and architects, apart from leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Advises peer architects and technologists about approved security patterns and practices
• Reviews, and challenges defined IT security related internal standards for the ongoing improvement of clients policies and procedures
• Acts as single point of contact, collaborating closely with other Security Architects and IT Architects on IT security related matters
• Promotes IT Security culture within the business and application management teams
• Defines pragmatic solutions and recommends alternatives that meet or exceed security requirements
• Reports on security status of various M&A projects
• Builds external network and eminence regarding IT security relevant to the business function
• Performs risk/threat assessment of all IT project related to the function
• Where needed, manages pool of external security and solution architects assigned to portfolio
• Manages prioritization of security assessment for the function

Required skills:

• University working and thinking level, degree in business/technical/scientific area or comparable education/experience
• 7+ years’ work experience, 5 years within Information / Cyber Security / IT security expert
• Experience in mergers and acquisition IT area is a must have.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise IT infrastructure technology, systems, vulnerability management, and change management processes, especially in large scale implementations

Preferred skills:

• Professional information security certification, such as CISSP, CISM or ISO 27001 auditor / practitioner is preferred. Professional (information system) risk or audit certification such as CIA, CISA or CRISC is preferred
• CSSLP, GSSP, ECCSP, CASS
• AWS and Azure Security Architect certifications

Working with Extelligence:

• We take care of the important things that matter to contractors, for example, we guarantee on-time payment for your work. You will never have to chase us for payment.
• We always seek to have long term relationships with our team and we always seek to offer opportunities to extend cooperation beyond the first contract or project.
• Extelligence is a multicultural team, we have more than 15 different nationalities working with us.
• We also organize events to bring our team together including team building activities and social events.

Job Category: Security

Job Type: Contract

Job Location: Remote in Prague

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