As a Cloud Security Architect, you will be a key technical leader and trusted advisor for our customers, helping them architect, design, and build secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective Cloud-based solutions. You'll collaborate closely with customers' technical and business leadership, understanding their business goals, technical requirements, and challenges to craft optimal Cloud-based controls that drive innovation and enable accelerating time-to-market for their products.

• Work closely with customers to understand their technical requirements, business objectives, and growth plans, and then architect Cloud-based controls that align with their goals.
• Lead technical discussions, present best practices, and guide customers on architecture, services, and solutions to ensure security, scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Business, IT, Product, and Support to provide comprehensive solutions, addressing their specific needs, and driving successful outcomes.
• Design and implement proof-of-concepts (POCs), Pilots, and reference architecture patterns to enable reusable security services and demonstrate their potential impact on the customer's business.
• Stay up to date with Cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services, industry trends, and best practices, share this knowledge within the team, and drive continuous improvement and innovation.
• Participate in workshops, webinars, and events to evangelize Cloud security solutions and contribute to the growth of the multi-Cloud ecosystem.
• Remote eligible.
• The base pay for this position is relative to your experience but the range is generally $126,261 to $218,852 per year. This position is eligible for variable compensation, which may be in the form of incentive, bonus, or commission pay. First Citizens offers a competitive, comprehensive benefits program which you can review here: https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.

• Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience in Information Technology including Information Security OR High School Diploma or GED and 12 years of experience in Information Technology including Information Security
• 5+ years of specific technology domain areas experience (e.g., software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics)
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 3+ years of architecture experience in Cyber and Cloud security

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of Cyber and Cloud architecture experience
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on MS Azure
• Experience working with end user and developer communities
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate and/or Professional
• MS Cybersecurity Architect