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The role in a nutshell
Kin + Carta is currently seeking a Lead Security Architect to assist in establishing a robust and secure software development lifecycle within Kin + Carta globally, leveraging best-in-class tools and practices. The Security Architect will facilitate continuous delivery of quality software using DevOps practices and principles. The role requires a broad cross section of skills along with a strong consultative approach.
At Kin + Carta, we are dedicated to enhancing the world through the creation of high-quality, secure digital products. Our teams collaborate with clients to creatively address intricate digital challenges, implementing stringent security measures, and leveraging innovative solutions and methodologies to mitigate risks and bolster the overall security of our clients' systems and applications.
What you can expect
We are looking for a Security Architect to join our global ops platform team, contributing to the acceleration of our digital transformation by standardizing best practices in Security Architect. This role involves automating security processes and implementing tools to boost efficiency, thereby facilitating continuous integration and deployment.
The role encompasses the assessment and consultation of securing systems and software creations from its initial idea and design to its finalized deployment and maintenance. Compromising stages of SDLC planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance and decommissioning stages.
If you're passionate about ensuring robust security measures throughout the software development lifecycle, seamlessly integrating security into every stage of the DevOps pipeline using automation, and fostering a culture of collaboration among development, operations, and security teams, then this opportunity is for you! Please read on.
Key Responsibilities
As a Senior Security Architect Engineer at Kin+Carta, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the security, reliability, and efficiency of our digital infrastructure and software development processes. You will lead initiatives to integrate security practices seamlessly into our DevOps workflow and contribute expertise in secure software development methodologies.
Some of your special skills and abilities you will put into practice:
* Develop and maintain a robust Security Architect framework that aligns with industry best practices and standards.
* Collaborate with delivery teams to implement and automate security controls, continuous monitoring, and threat detection across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
* Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to embed security into the development pipeline and ensure secure coding practices.
* Counsel on the design, deployments, and management of cloud environments built upon AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform to industry standards.
* Manage, Guide, Supervise, Oversee application security testing, software composition analysis, software and system vulnerability scans and security testing
* Provide performance analysis of and identifications of compliance and non-conformities generate recommended mitigations for potential risks.
* Client assurance: Assess, review and register interested parties software development life cycle requirements and support generation of proposals and tenders, and review of agreements, questionnaires and auditsLead incident response and resolution efforts, working closely with the CDS, Operations and and development teams during security incidents.
* Identifying threat landscapes, emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and security technologies to proactively prioritize and recommend security challenges.
* Establish secure system development policies, processes, guidelines and training to govern and educate.
We want all new hires to succeed in their roles at Kin + Carta. That's why we've outlined the job requirements below. To be considered for this role, it's important that you meet all Minimum Qualifications. If you do not meet all of the Preferred Qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.
The type of person we’d love to meet:
* Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field with at least
* Outstanding written and verbal English skills
* Empathy for kin and stakeholders, and a desire to provide excellent service
* Enthusiasm for Digital Transformation, and helping users unlock the power of data and automation
* Experienced in Agile, lean, or other iterative product development approaches (design sprints, scrum, kanban)
* Confident in presenting work and articulating ideas and opportunities to team members and stakeholders globally.
* A compassionate mindset of ethical, inclusive human-centered design
* Proficiency in cloud security principles and experience with cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
* In-depth knowledge of DevOps tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, etc., and familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.).
* Strong understanding of security protocols, standards, frameworks, cryptography, authentication, and authorization techniques.
* Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic environment.
Qualifications
* Certifications such as CISSP, CEH, Cloud Certified Security, etc., would be an advantage.
The interview process at Kin + Carta
Here’s what to expect from the interview process at Kin + Carta:
Intro Call with the Talent Team (30 minutes) – If your skills and experience match the role requirements, our Talent team will contact you to arrange a call. The aim of this call is to get to know you and for you to find out more about Kin + Carta. This call can be held either by telephone or Zoom. After this call, if we feel like you are a good match for the role, you’ll be invited to a first-stage interview.
First-Stage Interview (30 minutes) - This will be a Q&A style interview, lasting approximately 30 minutes. This process is designed to help our team find out about your skills and experience but also what you enjoy and what motivates you. It’s a great opportunity for you to ask our team questions and learn more about us! If you are successful in the first stage interview, you will progress to the next stage of our interview process
Second-Stage Interview (45 minutes)-The second stage will be a 75 minute exercise andit’s a chance for our team to see how you apply your skills and experience and assess how that matches our expectations for the role.
Making a Decision- Following the interview process, our hiring team will get together to discuss feedback and make a final decision. We aim to get back to you as soon as we possibly can!
Our average recruitment process takes aroundfour weeks. You will be assigned a dedicated member of our Talent team to support you throughout the process.
We will always do our best to accommodate any reasonable adjustment requests. Please just let us know how we can make the interview process more accessible for you.
Here at Kin + Carta, we believe in building a better and more welcoming world for everyone. We want you to know that whoever you are, wherever you’re from, and whoever you love, you are welcome at Kin + Carta. We put our commitment to our global IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Awareness) programme at the centre of everything we do. We’re also a certified B Corp, which means we are committed to being a force for good and operate to the highest social and environmental performance standards.
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