Rackspace Technology is hiring a
Senior Security Architect

Summary

Join our EMEA Public Cloud Security team as a Senior Security Architect in the UK, supporting the Cloud Security Service. As a self-starting and experienced architect, you will advise customers on their cloud security journey, establish a long-term trusted advisor role, and deliver innovative security solutions leveraging public cloud services.

Requirements

• Proven track record in designing and delivering innovative technology security solutions built on the cloud
• Ability to act as a thought-leader, concisely and articulately presenting to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience of designing secure platforms on any one or more of the major hyper-scalers, AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Demonstrable experience in designing secure cloud-native systems and/or rebuilding an existing system on the cloud with a suitable security posture
• Demonstrable experience in relevant legislation, industry regulations, and industry standards such as ISR, EU GDPR, HIPAA, ISO27001, ISO 22301, ISO/IEC 20000-1, ISO 22301, NCEMA, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, Cloud Security Alliance CCM, CIS, OWASP, and Cyber Essentials etc
• In-depth knowledge of the Well-architected frameworks and best practices of the major cloud providers
• Ability to lead engagements, either directly or as part of a larger programme of work, and take ownership for the successful delivery of customer value within budget, time, and scope
• Built specialist and demonstrable cloud security architectural knowledge in areas such as Account governance, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Asset management and data protection, Infrastructure and platform security, Application security including threat modelling and secure CI/CD, Change management practice and detection capabilities, Boundary defence, Cloud Logging and Monitoring, Continues vulnerability and patch management systems, Incident response and threat mitigation, Cloud backup/recovery and disaster recovery (DR)
• Client-facing consultancy experience within large enterprises, but happy to deliver to SMBs
• Articulate opinion on the advantages of using public cloud platforms in a secure manner from a business perspective
• Ability to identify and plan to resolve challenges, both technical and organizational, facing organizations who are moving their applications to the cloud
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to help assess their cloud security posture and ensure any subsequent cloud design and build is appropriately secured
• Provide guidance to customers on their cloud security roadmap and assist in defining the right-size cloud security controls
• Liaise closely with the customer's architects and engineers and advise, design, and deliver innovative cloud security Proof of Concepts
• Evolve existing Rackspace security services, as well as implement new ones, under the 'Cloud Security Service' banner
• Establish best-practices for the consultancy resulting in standardized engagement models and repeatable ways-of-working
• Mentor and train other security architects within the wider Rackspace Security Solutions Architecture community on modern multi-cloud security domains and topics
• Evangelize the security cloud-native paradigm through the delivery of blogs, customer presentations, and public speaking engagements
• Deliver high-quality work to customers as part of consulting engagements that can be delivered through workshops, presentations, or security solutions architecture designs
• Actively identify opportunities for new engagements
• Contribute to RFI/RFP requests

Preferred Qualifications

Certified as CISSP, CCSP, and CISM is an advantage

Benefits

Some engagements can be performed remotely whereas others may require you to be on-site