Senior Cloud Architect
Dragos Inc., United States

• Architect, implement, securely configure, fine-tune and maintain cloud solutions to empower the Dragos internal operating environments, including PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS.

• Develop and clarify business requirements, and translate these into detailed design documents with technical configurations in order to meet business needs.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Threat Operations and other internal stakeholders to provide security assurance and quality operational characteristics for customer-focused technical platforms.

• Assess existing cloud environments against industry best practices and security standards, providing actionable, feasible recommendations for continued improvement.

• Create reference architectures to drive standardized, secure use of technologies.

• Proactively identify and resolve potential problems to prevent them from occurring and improve the overall user experience.

• Prioritize workload based on severity and impact to customer and demonstrate a sense of urgency when handling operational issues.

• Participate in knowledge sharing via involvement in technical discussions and Knowledge Base documentation.

• Provide senior subject matter expertise for cloud-based technologies.

• Develop architecture blueprints and detailed documentation. Create bill of materials, including required Cloud Services (such as EC2, Lambda, queues, S3 etc.) and tools;

• Assist in risk assessment and mitigation activities.

• Perform other duties and projects as assigned.

• Minimum of 5 years of Cloud Engineering / Architecture experience in a professional enterprise; prefer 10+ years

• Strong cybersecurity acumen, with SME-level knowledge of tools and methods to protect cloud environments

• Extensive experience with AWS and cloud platform as a service (PaaS)

• Hands-on experience with Azure

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

• Experience with automation and orchestration

• Proficient technical problem-solving skills

• Clear written communication skills

• Scripting in Python, bash, PowerShell for API interaction

• Experience with GIT

• Knowledge of implementing and managing IAM and SSO at scale

• Certification on AWS architecture and security

• Hands-on experience with Network Engineering

• Experience with collaboration tools

• Experience with solution cost analysis

• Experience implementing and managing CASB

• Experience with implementing and managing continuous monitoring in cloud infrastructure

• Participation in CTFs, tabletop exercises, and mock incident response involving native cloud infrastructure

• Experiencing designing solutions within a security architecture (e.g., SABSA)

• Experience with private cloud including VMware and KVM

• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve different levels of hardware and client desktop issues.

• Linux/Unix operating system administration

• Understanding of permission levels across Linux and Windows environments.

• Start-up Experience preferred

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