Associate Principal, Platform Security

Associate Principal, Platform Security

Salary: $140k-$150k + bonus

Location: Chicago, IL/Dallas, TX

Hybrid role: 3 days remote, 2 days in-office

*We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role*

*Bonus Eligible*

A prestigious financial company is seeking an Associate Principal, Platform Security who will support the architecture, design and governance of a secure infrastructure ecosystem, focused on automation and proactive IaaS security best practices in collaboration with other teams

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Information Management, Information Security or other comparable technical degree from an accredited college/university OR equivalent work experience
• 5+ Years' experience in Information Assurance or Information Security environment
• Proficient in creating content with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Proficient in basic document management in a Microsoft SharePoint or similar environment
• Understanding and experience utilizing Cloud Services and Architecture (AWS/Azure)
• Ability to learn and review Infrastructure as code (Terraform/Hashi Vault)

Preferred Experience

• Experience managing infrastructure in public cloud environments like AWS (preferred), Azure or GCP
• Experience providing visibility using monitoring and alerting tools like Splunk
• Experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as code
• Programming/Scripting experience in languages like Java, Bash, Python or Go
• Experience with using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools like Jenkins, Travis, Harness, Spinnaker, Appveyor, CodeBuild or CodePipeline
• Experience with cloud/technology deployments in general
• Experience with NIST CSF/COBIT and related control framework
• Experience with IT-security/risk/governance
• Excellent proficiency in network, application, wireless and physical security
• Experience with dedicated document management tools (eg, DMS, PolicyTech)
• Experience with using ServiceNow?
• Experience with encryption technologies and products (Key Management/Certificate Management)
• Exposure to IAM and PAM services and applications (CyberArk/ForgeRock/Sailpoint)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development, operations and infrastructure teams to analyze security change control Processes, Controls and Guardrails
• Search for opportunities to integrate and automate security best practices within processes to deliver secure software and infrastructure
• Support cloud infrastructure teams with security observation remediation and proactive strategy to improve security posture
• Work to reduce cycle time on remediating security observations within cloud and enterprise platform teams
• Support automation for any security-related objectives within IT
• Assess the production security readiness of services we plan to deploy
• Support operationalization of shared security services and tools to improve automated monitoring capabilities
• Contribute to the team's continuous improvement through research, retrospectives, discussion groups and performing architecture assessments
• This role will provide hands on support architecting cloud security technologies, native AWS monitoring and auditing services, and improved cloud security governance and control