Job Summary
Serve as a CyberSecurity Architect focused on governance risk and compliance designing and maintaining security policies standards and controls that protect enterprise systems and data in a hybrid work environment while ensuring regulatory alignment and supporting secure cards and payments services for global stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Define the target security architecture, aligned with G2G requirements, including security controls, architectural patterns, and separation guidelines.
- Drive improvements identified through Gartner / Mandiant security assessments.
- Establish and govern security architecture standards across enterprise and cloud environments.
- Lead cloud security enforcement and CSPM practices.
- Define architecture and governance for key management, encryption, and cryptographic controls.
- Design and govern secure enterprise architectures that enable cloud adoption, DevSecOps, and modern application platforms while maintaining compliance, resilience, and effective risk reduction.
- Provide security architecture guidance for microservices, containers, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines.
Must-Have Qualifications
- Strong background in Cybersecurity, specifically Security Architecture and Security Engineering.
- Significant hands-on experience securing AWS environments and hybrid infrastructure.
- Strong expertise designing security architectures for:
- Microservices
- Containers
- APIs
- CI/CD and DevSecOps ecosystems
- Experience with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and cloud security controls.
- Knowledge of Key Management Systems (KMS), encryption, cryptography, and secrets management.
- Ability to translate security risks and assessment findings into enterprise security architecture improvements and technical controls.
Work Module: Hybrid
About Cognizant:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
Additional employment information
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