Security Job: Chief Security Architect

CHIEF SECURITY ARCHITECT

Job Type: Full-time
Job Location: New York
Compensation: Base – $200,000K (maybe more)   Bonus Estimate: $75 -$100,000
Telecommute: No
Education: BS Degree Preferred, but client will consider total experience
Relo Paid:  Possibly some assistance on a case by case basis.
Other: GSSP Certification a plus

SecurityHeadhunter.com is actively recruiting a senior level candidate for the position of Chief Security Architect for a major New York client. This position will have very broad enterprise impact.  You’ll be setting strategies which will translate into tactical decision making, influencing technology implementations and business operations processes. You must have implemented an enterprise scale threat mitigation and assurance strategy for software development.  You’ll also need a good understanding of network, host, and physical aspects of security the infrastructure.  Any experience dealing with offshore systems development would be a plus but not required.

You’ll need the same communication and interpersonal skills as a senior principal / partner of a large security and information protection agency.

Responsibilities will include

• Provide solutions and guidance in the form of design, development, and deployment on all aspects of software & application security to the development teams on a national and international basis.
• Implementation of:
  • Software Security Services
  • Security Architecture Analysis and Design Reviews
  • Security Code review
  • Recommendations of procedural and technological compensating controls
  • Secure Coding best practices implementation and training
  • Application Threat modeling and Mitigation Services.
• Strengthen the Risk Assessment process with pertinent technical criteria to better assess the risk ratings of client applications.
• Strengthen client Vulnerability Management process which includes bugs, patches, configuration management advice.
• Comprehensive and holistic level perspective required for implementing security methodologies and best practices across all lines of business of the organization; including Technology.
• Must apply structured thinking, methodology and disciplines to a complex environment of business and technical requirements.

Qualifications

• Core security, vulnerability scanning & pen testing tools
• Core security analysis
• Understanding of secure HTTP, application security, web security, SHH, SFTP, SSL and additionally application vulnerabilities.
• An understanding of application security over OS’s (Linux, Sun, Windows, Novell, etc.)
• Must have a minimum experience 10 years developing scalable, distributed applications with a thorough understanding of platforms like Enterprise Java, .NET with security aspects of Java, C#, C++ languages.  5 years in the Application Security space; including information (storage, transmission, etc.), application (design & development), deployment, run-time (access), operation/support.

To forward a confidential version  of your resume, please email directly to: Bell@SecurityHeadhunter.com
or contact:

Wils Bell
President
SecurityHeadHunter.com, Inc.
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Direct: 407-365-2404

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