Enterprise Security and IAM Architect

Are you an Enterprise Security and IAM Architect looking to join one of the top companies in the Energy and Gas industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have experience in enterprise security architectural design and planning?

If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!

Acara Solutions seeks highly qualified candidates to work on-site with our client in San Antonio, TX. Interested?

Here's what you'd do:

• The enterprise security and IAM architect position is a combined practical and strategic position that involves establishing technical strategy, defining enterprise security and IAM architectures, and leading solution implementations from a technology perspective.
• The position provides technical guidance and training to the implementation teams, serves as technology and best practices evangelist, and ensures that implementations follow the finest implementation standards and principles.
• This position advises technical management and business areas on key architectural decisions regarding platforms and supporting technologies.
• This position produces technical architectures (documented by deliverables) that are scalable, maintainable, dependable, secure, and meet performance requirements.
• This position represents the Enterprise Information Technology (EIT) organization across the client.
• It works across the company to deliver technical solutions, including providing continuity on major solution decisions, communicating technology solution value across all company levels, and ensuring solutions are implemented according to the defined solution architecture and technical standards.
• Responsible for enterprise security architectural design and planning in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Designing data-centric security architectures to ensure appropriate control over data use and protection.
• Responsible for the strategy and enablement of identity and security solutions that include DLP, Encryption, Key Management, Identity Management, Secure Data Transport, audit, event detection, CASB, Intrusion Prevention, Remote Access, Firewall, and more.
• Understand the Enterprise's Identity Management current requirements, future state, and industry best practices to plan and implement Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions.
• Responsible for architecting IAM in a hybrid cloud environment, user/service/device authentication & authorization, and managing enterprise identities and entitlements.
• Architect the security posture of enterprise Operational Technology (OT) environments to help ensure compliance with NERC and other regulatory bodies.
• Develop enterprise security architectural patterns, approaches, and design solutions and research new technologies and approaches.
• Plan how security controls are used (CASB, CSMP, CNAPP, CWPP, and so on) and how they are deployed.
• Create security standards and roadmaps and develop recommendations for migrating to future standards.
• Responsible for the security, architecture, and automation designs of on-premise, wide-area, and Cloud solutions.
• Partner with vendors to select appropriate technical solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop consensus, drive results, and execute projects on time and within budget.
• Manage several simultaneous initiatives from conception through implementation.
• Contribute to security standards and design patterns.
• Deliver solutions tailored to internal business requirements.
• Articulate design rationale, flexibly adapt solutions, and iterate designs when necessary.
• Provide 3rd-level support and input to teams to diagnose reported issues and provide root cause analysis to management and the business teams.
• Work closely with Senior management, Architecture, Application managers, IT Security, BTE, and operations teams.
• Enhances efficiency via automation when and wherever possible.
• Cross-train other team members on projects and network technologies.

Here's what you'll get:

Pay: $115,800 - $150,600/year.

Hours: 40 hours/week.

Length: Direct Hire.

Sounds like a good fit?

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About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Minimum of 8 years experience in enterprise security architectural design and planning.

• Good leadership skills; coaching and mentoring skills.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade without direct control.
• High degree of flexibility and ability to work with employees at all levels of the organization with diverse backgrounds.
• Willing to drive change and ability to adapt to change quickly.
• Recognized as a thought leader.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent leadership and management.
• Enterprise security architecture experience in a complex, multi-platform, distributed environment.
• Good experience with On-Prem / Private, Public Cloud network, identity, and application security services.
• Experience and knowledge of security methods and solutions to support DLP, Encryption, Key Management, Fine Grained Access Control, Audit Trail, Detection, CASB, Microsegmentation, Cybersecurity Mesh, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and others.
• Knowledge of industry security standards and frameworks such as Payment Card Industry(PCI), HIPAA NIST, ISO 27001, and Cybersecurity Framework (CSF).
• Familiar with cloud security principles and solutions, including native cloud provider security, Office 365 security, and Cloud Security Posture Management (CPSM).
• Specific experience securing Microsoft Azure-hosted services.
• Experience with Identity Management Solutions and leading products in the marketplace.
• CISSP or equivalent technical certification will be beneficial.
• Experience architecting and implementing network security & QoS technologies.
• Able to develop opportunities, pitch, and deliver security-related projects.
• A solid understanding of general IT application structures, the supporting components to the network, and the overall holistic IT functions, operations, and general dataflows of the enterprise to enable the planning and implementation of best-practice security measures.
• Be knowledgeable of past, present, and upcoming security technologies, standards, and best practices to properly plan and implement solutions most effectively.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be needed to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification form upon hire.