The Company
Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 350,000 employees as of January 2024. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.
Cognizant Consulting
At Cognizant, our consultants orchestrate the capabilities to truly change the game across strategy, design, technology and industry/functional knowledge to deliver insight at speed and solutions at scale. Our consulting services elevate the unique abilities and business aspirations of customers and employees and build relationships based on trust and value.
Role Profile
The Security Architect will be a member of a small architecture team comprising application and infrastructure specialists. They will have experience and a strong foundation in the design of secure solutions on AWS Cloud and On-premises Data Centres (DCs). They will have experience in creating high-level designs (HLDs) following application and infrastructure security policies, standards and best practice. They will be able to defend design choices at technical governance forums (e.g., TDA).
Responsibilities
- Providing technology leadership, delivering high quality, creative and insightful technology advice; you will ensure project success through timely and accurate production of agreed deliverables:
- Shaping, leading and delivering value through technology advisory consultancy and through guiding transformational delivery engagements
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills at senior levels that will enable consensus building and shaping technology direction
- Leading in the development and presentation of client proposals collaborating with teams across our business
- Leading in the development of collateral to support Technology Consulting ‘go to market’ propositions and service offerings
- Farming of accounts - working with account teams to support opportunity identification, qualification and sales
- Contribute to the development of practice members’ skills to ensure a consistency of service delivery and expertise. Active coaching and mentoring of junior members of the team
- Develop, implement and continually refine a coherent approach and appropriate frameworks to support business transformation proposals, that includes presentations, specimen RFI/RFP content, methodologies, toolkits and deliverables
Core skills and experience:
- Creation of high-level security architecture design (HLD)
- Security capabilities in AWS Cloud and Data Centres (DCs)
- Knowledge of network segmentation, vulnerability management
- Security: Firewalls, Key Management, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Application Gateway (ALG)
- Technologies: WSO2, Nginx, Entrust, GardDuty, Shield
- Knowledge of security frameworks (NIST, CCM)
Desirable skills and experience:
- AWS Certified Security Specialty
- Java security frameworks (e.g., JCA, JAAS, JSSE)
- Security technology (e.g., ZTNA, SEIM, XDR, EDR)
- Sparx EA
The Security Architect must be comfortable drafting documents, preparing presentations, researching IT architecture and technology topics, and providing oversight to development teams. They must have the ability to abstract complex themes, problem solve, distil key discussion points, organise work, deliver to tight deadlines, and communicate with non-technical and technical stakeholders.
Security Clearance
Please note that candidates must hold or be able to gain UK SC level Security Clearance or higher. Therefore we can only accept applications from British passport holders who meet this criteria.
La Comunidad Cognizant:
Somos un equipo que se aprecia y apoya mutuamente. Nuestros asociados trabajan en un entorno colaborativo e integrador en el que todos pueden prosperar.
- Cognizant es una comunidad global con más de 300.000+ asociados en todo el mundo.
- No solo soñamos con un mundo mejor, sino que trabajamos para hacerlo realidad.
- Cuidamos de nuestros asociados, clientes, socios, comunidades y entorno haciendo lo correcto.
- Fomentamos un entorno innovador en el que puedes desarrollar tu carrera profesional.
Acerca de nosotros
Cognizant es una de las principales empresas de servicios profesionales del mundo, transformando los modelos de negocio, operativos y tecnológicos de los clientes para la era digital. Nuestro enfoque consultivo único, basado en la industria, ayuda a los clientes a visualizar, construir y gestionar negocios más innovadores y eficientes. Con sede en los EE. UU., Cognizant (miembro del NASDAQ-100 y uno de los mejores empleadores del mundo según Forbes en 2024) está constantemente listado entre las empresas más admiradas del mundo. Descubra cómo Cognizant ayuda a los clientes a liderar con lo digital en www.cognizant.com.
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Advertencia:
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