Senior Security Architect

Rackspace Technology

We are looking for a Senior Security Architect to support our Cloud Security Service in the Middle East region. This role is particularly well-suited to a self-starting, experienced and motivated Architect, who has a proven track record in the security consulting field.

You will be engaging with customers and the wider Rackspace organization to advise, develop and deliver innovative security solutions leveraging a wide range of public cloud services. The primary focus will be on helping customers to assess their cloud security posture and to ensure any subsequent cloud design and build is appropriately secured.

• As part of a small, but fast-growing team, you will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) to advise and guide customers on their cloud security journey and establish a long-term trusted advisor role
• Engaging with customers to help assess their cloud security posture and to ensure any subsequent cloud design and build is appropriately secured. This may be applicable to a customer s single cloud, or multi-cloud environment, or when a customer wishes to move its environment from on-premise to the cloud
• Provide guidance to customers on their cloud security roadmap and assist on defining the right-size cloud security controls
• Liaise closely with the customer s architects and engineers and advise, design and deliver innovative cloud security Proof of Concepts
• Evolve existing Rackspace security services, as well as implement new ones, under the Cloud Security Service banner.
• Establish best-practices for the consultancy resulting in standardized engagement models and repeatable ways-of-working
• Mentor and train other security architects within the wider Rackspace Security Solutions Architecture community on modern multi-cloud security domains and topics
• Evangelize the security cloud-native paradigm through the delivery of blogs, customer presentations and public speaking engagements
• Deliver high-quality work to customers as part of consulting engagements that can be delivered through workshops, presentations or security solutions architecture designs
• Actively identify opportunities for new engagements
• Contribute to RFI/RFP requests

Skills & Experience

• The ideal candidate has a proven track record in designing and delivering innovative technology security solutions built on the cloud.
• As a Senior Security Architect, the person should have the ability to act as a thought-leader. The right candidate can concisely and articulately present to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience of designing secure platforms on any one or more of the major hyper-scalers, AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Demonstrable experience in designing secure cloud-native systems and/or rebuilding an existing system on the cloud with a suitable security posture.
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