Security Architect
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Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.
Culture Amp is backed by leading capital venture funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.
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How you can help make a better world of work
Culture Amp is looking for a unique and talented Security Architect to join the Security Team which plays a key role in securing the operations of the business.
You will support our business to leverage leading edge technologies in all that they do and provide security guidance to our product teams as they develop innovative software solutions for our customers.
You will have the opportunity to establish best practice for solution design and help shape the security of a scalable technology ecosystem across the enterprise. We are a modern technology company that is growing and we are looking for someone who ‘gets the job done’ with a bit of flair and creativity to help embed security in all that we do.
In part of this team of amazing humans,
You will
- Provide expertise, guidance, and support to technical and business project teams to embed enterprise aligned cyber security architectures in the development, communication, and full lifecycle management of the project.
- Deliver core security architecture outcomes through assessment of threats that translate into mitigating security controls and solution recommendations.
- Assist in creation and maintenance of security architecture blueprints and patterns
- Provide guidance, governance, and information to support effective security architecture such as policies, processes, application references models, guidelines, and artefacts.
- Promote a proactive focus on security architecture through early intervention in technology project lifecycles; ensuring projects maintain an enterprise-wide view.
- Communicate security advice and guidance to diverse stakeholders
- Provide insight on complex security risks including, but not limited to, those presented via;
- Cyber security incidents,
- Security investigations
- Security remediation actions
- Industry events.
You have
- Expertise in providing security architecture and advisory services for cloud native environments and solutions
- Proficiency with public cloud providers and services
- Deep understanding of security technologies, frameworks, methodologies and application of these to ensure informed decision making.
- Demonstrated aptitude for problem solving and navigating business and technical challenges to achieve pragmatic security outcomes.
- Threat management knowledge and how to apply this to risk based decision making.
- Experience with various security frameworks and accreditations like ISO 27,000, NIST, Mitre, CSA, and SOC2
- Understanding of enterprise risk management methods and techniques to drive successful outcomes in globally distributed environment
- Strong communication and influencing skills and ability to collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Growth mindset who is passionate to learn and use new/emerging technologies
- Documenting/diagramming skills (e.g. for documenting security architectures / security system interaction diagrams / user flow diagrams) using tools such as Miro, Lucid Chart.
You are
- Easy to get along with, an influential individual, who is Immediately credible and able to easily build relationships
- A lateral thinker with a keen eye for detail and you naturally analyse assumptions
- Comfortable in ambiguity
- Great at communicating with both technical and non-technical people
- Good at finding edge cases and loopholes in business logic
- Thorough & meticulous
- Work well independently and with others as part of larger team and are able to collaborate on cross-functional teams
- Willingness to learn and grow
- Develops a deep understanding of the broader business context and uses it to prioritise areas of focus
We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are:
- Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
- Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
- Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
- Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
- Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
- Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
- Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
- Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
- 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
- MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
- Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)
Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place.
We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.
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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.
We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!
Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it.
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