Senior Cloud Security Architect

The Senior Cloud Security Architect plays a crucial role in establishing the principles, standards, and design patterns necessary for building secure products and enterprise tools across Cox Automotive's multi-cloud and on-premises environments. This position emphasizes creating a secure infrastructure and services strategy that accommodates both cloud and on-premise settings, collaborating with peers focused on application security, SaaS, and network security.

This architect will leverage their extensive cybersecurity knowledge to design and construct secure systems, working closely with cross-functional teams to propose clear cybersecurity architectural guidelines adopted by product and engineering teams. This role will report directly to the Senior Director of Cybersecurity Architecture at Cox Automotive.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and recommend crucial cybersecurity policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines.
• Lead working groups focused on cybersecurity to help define architectural guidelines within the product and enterprise architecture group.
• Develop secure design patterns in collaboration with architecture teams that can be easily adopted by engineering.
• Contribute to the creation of governance patterns, policies, and standards beyond cybersecurity.
• Perform complex analyses of potential security risks to information systems and propose innovative solutions.
• Collaborate with technical, development, and delivery teams to ensure efficient and scalable release processes.
• Engage with business and engineering teams to establish cybersecurity guidelines promoting the seamless adoption of secure design.
• Participate in security events and incident response to identify design gaps and propose proactive solutions.
• Research and evaluate emerging security trends, threats, technologies, and recommend appropriate enhancements.
• Work with data users and technical stakeholders to ensure that security considerations guide operational decisions.
• Collaborate with peers to incorporate vulnerability management, governance, risk, compliance, and other critical cybersecurity measures into standards.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Salary and Benefits

The salary for this position ranges from $144,900 to $241,500 annually, based on knowledge, skills, and abilities. In addition to a competitive salary, Cox Automotive offers flexible vacation policies, seven paid holidays, and up to 160 hours of paid wellness leave annually. Additional paid time off is available for bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteering, military service, and parental leave.

Please note that applicants must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship.