Infrastructure Security Architect

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Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Strategy

• Design and maintain secure hybrid infrastructure architectures integrating on-prem, private cloud, and public cloud (OCI / Azure / GCP).
• Define security reference architectures, baseline configurations, and zero-trust network models.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects to ensure security-by-design across infrastructure initiatives.

Hands-On Implementation & Hardening

• Deploy and configure security controls for firewalls, WAF, IDS/IPS, DDoS protection, Email & API security gateways, VPN, NAC, endpoint protection, IAM, and SIEM solutions.
• Harden operating systems, databases, virtualization, and container environments.

Cloud & Virtualization Security

• Secure workloads across VMware, Hyper-V, and container platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Integrate cloud-native security controls into multi-cloud environments.

Security Monitoring & Response

• Collaborate with SOC teams to enhance detection, alerting, and incident response.
• Integrate SIEM / SOAR tools for threat monitoring and correlation.
• Lead root-cause analysis and drive security remediation initiatives.

Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure adherence to SAMA CSF, NCA ECC, SWIFT CSP, PCI DSS, and NIST standards.
• Develop audit-ready documentation, security blueprints, and policy frameworks.
• Conduct threat modeling and define risk mitigation strategies.