[Hiring] Senior Lead Cloud Security Architect @Cox

Role Description

The Senior Lead Cybersecurity Architect is responsible for defining the principles, standards, and design patterns to build secure products and enterprise tools for all of Cox Automotive’s multi-cloud and on-premises environments. This position’s architecture focus is on securing multi-cloud infrastructure and services and on-premises infrastructure.

This role will use their deep cybersecurity knowledge in the designing and building of secure infrastructure and services in both multi-cloud and on-premises environments. They must be able to collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the organization and propose well-defined cybersecurity architectural guidelines to be adopted by product and enterprise engineering teams. This role will directly report to the Senior Director of Cybersecurity Architecture at Cox Automotive.

What You'll Do:

• Identify and recommend relevant cybersecurity policies, standards, procedures, and guardrails.
• Drive the definition of cybersecurity guidelines across the product and enterprise architecture group by leading working groups focused on cybersecurity.
• Develop secure design patterns in conjunction with the product and enterprise architecture group based on standards that can be adopted and implemented by engineering teams.
• Contribute to the development of non-cyber architecture-related governance patterns, policies, and standards.
• Provide complex analysis of potential risks to information systems’ security and recommend innovative solutions.
• Work with cross-functional technical, development, and delivery teams to ensure the application of smooth, efficient, and scalable release processes.
• Engage with business teams and engineering teams to define cybersecurity guardrails that promote efficient and seamless adoption of secure design patterns.
• Participate in security events and incident response to identify gaps in current design and propose solutions to prevent threats from reoccurring.
• Research and evaluate emerging security trends, threats, and technologies, and recommend appropriate solutions and enhancements.
• Collaborate with data users, software, and other technical stakeholders to ensure security considerations are factored into and underpin development and operational decision making.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity peers to incorporate vulnerability management, governance, risk and compliance, cyber defense, continuous controls monitoring, and identity governance into cybersecurity standards as a cohesive cybersecurity organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 8 years of experience in a related field. Alternative combinations include a master's degree and 6 years of experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years of experience; or 12 years’ experience in a related field.
• At least 4 years focused on cybersecurity.
• Practical expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure and services and on-premises infrastructure.
• Ability to articulate the objective of specific cybersecurity policies and procedures to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent customer service skills, writing, and executive presentation skills.
• Strong collaborative skills with key stakeholders and other Cox entities’ cybersecurity teams.
• Consultative nature to work through controversial or complex topics.
• Ability to evaluate risks and recommend actions based on impact and likelihood.
• Knowledge of current cybersecurity and technology architectures such as zero trust, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, virtualization, and containerization.
• Creative problem-solving skills in complex cybersecurity challenges.
• Experience utilizing Agile methodologies.
• Experience initiating change and deploying solutions in Fortune 1000 companies.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., ISO 27000, NIST, FFIEC) and industry regulations (e.g., GDPR, FFIEC, GLBA).
• Collaboration with AI agents to create, validate, and assess architectural artifacts.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in designing AI-enhanced solutions.
• Implementation of AI-driven architectural governance and compliance.
• Improvement of vendor tool assessments using AI.

Requirements

• Experience in the development and design of cybersecurity standard methodologies for cloud and on-premises environments.
• Relevant experience with application security, SaaS, network security, DevSecOps, and software-defined networking.
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM), cryptography/key management, and security protocols (e.g., multi-factor, SAML, OAuth, OIDC).
• Experience with application security implementations and standard methodologies.
• Extensive technology knowledge in areas including Python, .NET, Java, Spring frameworks, Oracle, serverless, and cloud service authentication.
• Experience with firewalls, web application firewalls, and network architectures.
• Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Experience establishing strategies for cloud enterprise solutions in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong understanding of cloud containers and/or serverless platforms (e.g., EKS, ECS, Lambda, Fargate).
• Big four consulting or Fortune 500 company experience.
• Relevant industry certification (e.g., CISSP, CEH, OSCP, Azure, AWS, CISM, CISA).

Benefits

• Flexible vacation policy with paid time off as deemed consistent with duties.
• Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for personal or family wellness.
• Additional paid time off for bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteering, military leave, and parental leave.
• Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision).
• Retirement planning (401(k)).
• Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).