Job description
CYBERSECURITY ENGINEER (IAM) - REMOTE
ARC Group has an immediate opportunity for a Cybersecurity Engineer! This position is 100% remote working eastern time zone business hours. This is starting out as a contract position running through June 2025 with strong potential to extend longer or convert to FTE. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.
At ARC Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We believe that diverse perspectives lead to better innovation and problem-solving. As an organization, we embrace diversity in all its forms and encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to apply.
100% REMOTE!
Reference # 17519-1
Candidates must currently have PERMANENT US work authorization. Sorry, but we are not considering any candidates from outside parties for this position (no C2C, 3rd party / brokering).
Job Description:
The Cybersecurity Architect serves the company as an advisor on best practices and is responsible for designing and effectively implementing project level security strategies, architectures and solutions that guide IT security direction. They are accountable for the security architecture across a variety of applications or domains and assigned to project/initiatives of small to medium size, complexity and risk. The Cybersecurity Architect develops actionable security blueprints, principles, models, designs, standards and guidelines to ensure enterprise information technology architecture is consistent, usable, secure and adds value to the business. The Cybersecurity Architect will design sub-components of larger security architecture blueprints or projects with narrow focus and complexity. The Cybersecurity Architect performs due-diligence activities including security monitoring to evaluate effectiveness of the enterprise security program and established controls. The Cybersecurity Architect implements enterprise security strategies, architectures and solutions that guide IT security direction.
Essential Functions
- Responsible for enterprise due-diligence activities including security monitoring and security metrics to evaluate effectiveness of the enterprise security program and established controls.
- Responsible for establishment, implementation and maintenance of security standards that guide the design of technology solutions.
- Accountable for adhering to corporate architecture standards, ensuring technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to corporate architecture strategy-setting.
- Responsible for ensuring necessary security controls are part of technical designs.
- Participates in governance processes to ensure consistent technology life cycle management
- Builds consensus around principles of security architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles.
- Participates in IT security efforts across all business areas and client groups.
- Participates on project teams contributing input with regard to technology vision, opportunities and challenges.
- Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options.
- Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and architecture blue prints.
- Evaluates strengths and flaws in security architecture including performance, confidentiality, integrity, availability, access and total cost of ownership.
- Facilitates project handoffs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions.
- Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for issue resolution.
- Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects
- Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience. Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures. Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs. Prepares benchmarking reports and presentations.
- Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness and value delivered to customers.
- Ability to articulate complex solutions which are comprehensive to the target audience (e.g. technical vs. non-technical).
- Aptitude to identify, analyze and rationalize risks to ensure decisions made are in the best interest of the business, staff and its customers.
- Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise.
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
- 2 or more years of work experience designing security architecture on progressively complex IT projects preferred
- 2 or more years of cloud security experience
- Identity and Access Management experience with employee and consumer identity security
- Health care industry related experience is preferred
- Experience using Agile methodology
Required Work Experience
4+ years related work experience (Progressive work experience in security technology design, architectures, development and/or monitoring )
Required Education
Related Bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience IT related field or equivalent work experience
Required Licenses and Certifications
CISSP - Cert Information Systems Security Prof (within 180 Days if converted to FTE)
Would you like to know more about our new opportunity? For immediate consideration, please send your resume directly to Suresh Gaddala at [email protected] or apply online while viewing all of our open positions at www.arcgonline.com.
ARC Group is a Forbes-ranked a top 20 recruiting and executive search firm working with clients nationwide to recruit the highest quality technical resources. We have achieved this by understanding both our candidate’s and client’s needs and goals and serving both with integrity and a shared desire to succeed.
At ARC Group, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and fostering an inclusive work environment. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected status. If you require accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know.
Position is offered with no fee to candidate.
