Staff Security Architect II Careem Dubai

Careem is looking for a Staff Security Architect II to join their Information security team of talented engineers that share a common interest in securing Careem’s production and enterprise systems and services and ensure trust between careem’s customers, captains, colleagues, merchants and partners. Responsible to handle everything from user requests to payment processing reporting directly to the CISO. The role holder will work closely with infrastructure, product engineering, product management and IT teams to drive security excellence in Careem products / features as well as the internal enterprise systems being built to service the colleagues.

Responsibilities of A Staff Security Architect II

• Architecture: Responsible for building an innovative security architecture for the distributed backend system that the engineering organization is building to meet the challenging functional, scalability and reliability requirements for our fast growing business.
• Design: Ensure end-to-end architecture design according to best practices, compliance, regulation and privacy.
• Team Support & Growth: Facilitate collaboration between InfoSec teams and other architects, engineers, business owners, and technical program managers to solve interesting and challenging infosec problems across our platform and services.
• Careem-wide Tech Leadership: Work with different stakeholders at a senior level and engage proactively with all Careem engineering and product leads in different domains to ensure information security is at the top of mind across the teams.

Requirements For Staff Security Architect II

The eligibility requirements for role of a Staff Security Architect ll are as under:

• Required: Holder of industry professional certifications in AWS cloud architecture and development.
• Minimum of 5 years of advanced / expert level experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, cloud security, system security, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security.
• Hands on experience in SSDLC processes across a fast growth tech organization.
• Experience with multiple programming languages (such as Golang, Java, Scala, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, Rust, C++, etc.).
• Experience in multi-tiered distributed systems, web services, APIs, and relational & NoSQL databases.
• Preferred: Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science or equivalent discipline.
• Cloud security certifications are a plus.
• 10+ years of experience in information security engineering.

Knowledge & Skills Desired

• Excellent knowledge of DevSecOps practices and technologies.
• Deep understanding of AWS security capabilities and features and expert knowledge in securing and operationalizing AWS cloud technologies including but not limited to ECS, S3, ALB, RDS, DMS, KMS, Secrets Manager, Config, CloudWatch, Lambda, SNS, SQS (certification a plus).
• Familiarity with SRE, logging and monitoring and system engineering best practices.
• Knowledge of and experience securing container, Microservices and API technologies.
• Strong problem solving, oral and written communication skills including experience with executive presentations.
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies including Agile and Scaled Agile centric execution models.
• Hands-on knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, secure code review, risk analysis, and penetration testing.
• Ability to make concrete progress in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge.
• A strong bias for action with proven ability to handle high stress, time sensitive security tasks.
• Strong information security risk-based prioritization abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a focus on translating technically complex issues into simple, easy to understand concepts.
• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions; deal with loosely defined problems and fast changing requirements & think abstractly.
• Proven knowledge of system architecture.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects at the same time.
• Able to take individual ownership of a project from start to finish.

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