MUST BE IN KANSAS CITY METRO

U.S. CITIZEN or GREEN CARD STATUS REQUIRED

The Enterprise Cyber Security Architect willplay an integral role in defining and assessing the organization's security strategy, architecture, and practices. The Enterprise Cyber Security Architect will be required to effectively translate business objectives and risk management strategies into specific security processes enabled by security technologies and services.

Position Summary

Develops and maintains a security architecture process that enables the enterprise to develop and implement security solutions and capabilities that are clearly aligned with business, technology and threat drivers
Develops security strategy plans and roadmaps based on sound enterprise architecture practices
Develops and maintains security architecture artifacts (e.g., models, templates, standards and procedures) that can be used to leverage security capabilities in projects and operations
Determines baseline security configuration standards for operating systems, network segmentation and identity and access management (IAM)
Develops standards and practices for data encryption and tokenization in the organization, based on the organization's data classification criteria
Develops security procedures and standards

Assurance

Tracks developments and changes in the digital business and threat environments to ensure that they're adequately addressed in security strategy plans and architecture artifacts
Validates IT infrastructure and other reference architectures for security best practices and recommend changes to enhance security and reduce risks, where applicable
Ensures a complete, accurate and valid inventory of all systems, infrastructure and applications that should be logged by the security information and event management or log management tool(s)
Coordinates with DevOps teams to advocate secure coding practices, and to escalate concerns related to poor coding practices for further review
Reviews security technologies, tools and services, and makes recommendations to the broader security team for their use, based on security, financial and operational metrics

Collaboration

Works with the IT Business Management team to conduct security assessments of existing and prospective vendors, especially those with which the organization shares intellectual property (IP), as well as regulated or other protected data:
Software as a service (SaaS) providers
Cloud/infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers
Managed service providers (MSPs)
Coordinates with operational and facility management teams to assess the security of operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) systems
Liaises with other information security colleagues and security practitioners to share best practices and insights
Participates in application and infrastructure projects to provide security-planning advice

Midwest Consulting Group

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