Security Solution Architect

Company: CHS Inc
Location: Burnsville
Posted on: August 7, 2022

Job Description:

CHS Inc. is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States that provides grain, food and energy resources to businesses and consumers around the world. We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our 10,000 employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture. Summary CHS has an exciting opportunity in our Information Technology group. We are looking for a Security Solution Architect who is a technical leader with a deep understanding of business goals, business processes and solutions. This role will design and support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural standards and overall IT strategy. This position will organize, plan and communicate business solutions with the business and IT regarding their current and future initiatives. They will demonstration design engineering and proof of concept delivery across a range of technology platforms and services. You must have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, be able to provide technical direction to resources outside of direct control and influence teams. Responsibilities

• Design, implement and manage scalable security controls and automation in a DevOps environment within on-prem and public clouds (AWS, Azure) across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and container platforms.
  • Demonstrate good knowledge of CI/CD, code version control, configuration management tools such as Terraform, Chef or equivalent, scripting knowledge of Python or equivalent.
  • Design and implement automation between security platforms and assorted IT platforms across the CHS landscape.
  • Perform security analysis and provide recommendations and consulting on securing infrastructure and implementing cloud-native security tools.
  • Be a stakeholder in application assessments by partnering with CHS internal teams and external vendors.
  • Present technical concepts and specific solutions to audiences of varying technical capabilities in a clear, concise and easily understood manner.
  • Ensure compliance of solutions to architectural and security standards.
  • Collaborate with other engineers on design, analysis, architecture, implementation, pen testing, security reviews and process enhancements.
  • Present to stakeholders on how architectural options will meet their needs.
  • Create proposals for proof of concepts requests and presentations.
  • Produce technical documentation of systems, applications, and architectures.
  • Act as a subject matter expert on technologies and trends in your domain of expertise.
  • Act as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings
    • Influences the implementation of solutions, identifying resources and developing timelines.
    • Effectively communicates risks, issues, and alternative options.
    • Takes initiative to achieve valued-added results and improve upon solutions offered.
    • Develops and fosters collaborative working relationships with the business, project managers and IT team members
    • Provide technical and functional guidance to product teams.
    • Working in close collaboration with engineering and architecture teams.
    • Work with application owner to map and document security controls.
    • Maintain and promote a strong culture of risk reduction throughout the environment. Minimum Qualifications (required)
      • High School Diploma or equivalent
      • 2+ years of IT experience in development and implementation of cloud solutions to include:
        • IT Engineering experience
        • Designing, engineering, and securing complex infrastructure architectures
        • Threat detection, monitoring, log management, incident response, and forensics on different tiers of infrastructure and platform services
        • Designing security for external facing applications
        • Working knowledge of software development with security automation tools (SOAR) and other automation platforms (Terraform, CloudFormation etc.), playbooks (Ansible), Puppet, Chef, ServiceNow
        • Experience implementing security processes, tools, techniques and practices
        • Experience in designing security stack with workloads running on-prem and multi cloud environment
        • Experience in implementing best practices regarding securing cloud infrastructure and cloud services
        • Experience in developing security controls for DevOps and Cloud environments using industry standard guidelines such as Center for Internet Security (CIS), Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), OWASP in conjunction with business requirements
        • Experience in writing Information Security Policies
        • Experience in consulting engagements internal or external Additional Qualifications
          • Bachelor s or Master s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Cyber Security
          • 4+ years of IT experience in development and implementation of solutions
          • CISSP or other Security\Cloud related Certifications
          • IAM, SAML, OpenID and LDAP authentication/authorization, MFA/2FA with integrations into web services and OS
          • Experience with AWS and Azure
          • Secrets management, encryption technologies and key management
          • Working with and security container and serverless computing platforms
          • Experience with regulated environments regarding exceeding published controls such as NIST 800-53, NIST Cyber security Framework, PCI and other security frameworks Physical Requirements
            • Pre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse. CHS offers a competitive total compensation package. Benefits include Health, Dental, Vision, Hearing, Life Insurance, Health and Day Care Savings Accounts, Paid Vacation, 401K, Company Funded Pension, Profit Sharing, Long and Short Term Disability, Tuition reimbursement, and Adoption assistance.CHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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