Security Architect IV

About the role

In the role of Security Architect IV at IGT, you will be responsible for evaluating and improving the security measures of gaming solutions. Your work will involve assessing technical security mechanisms, reviewing policies, and collaborating with various business units to enhance security architecture for customer-facing products.

You will design security controls to mitigate risks across on-prem, cloud-native, and hybrid environments. This position requires a proactive approach to investigating security technologies and staying updated on the threat landscape, ensuring that IGT's products meet industry standards and best practices.

Skills that matter here

• Js: This role requires programming skills in JavaScript for auditing and developing secure applications.
• Python: Python expertise is essential for building and maintaining security solutions.
• Go: Experience with Go is necessary for developing secure applications and services.
• .Net: Knowledge of .Net is important for ensuring security in related applications.
• C family of languages: Proficiency in C languages is required for auditing and writing secure code.
• AWS: Experience with AWS is crucial for implementing security controls in cloud environments.

Who this role suits

• Candidates should have a strong background in programming and security architecture.
• They must be able to work independently and demonstrate good judgment.
• A collaborative mindset is essential for cross-functional teamwork.
• Successful individuals will have excellent communication and decision-making skills.

From the employer

• Assess at a technical level, the security measures and mechanisms designed into a solution or project.
• Review Information Security technology policies, processes, procedures, applied guidance and related documents and artefacts related to security architecture.
• Collaborate across all business units and review security architecture, requirements, diagrams, workflows, and recommend security related functions and enhancements for customer-facing products.
• Model threats and attack vectors and design security controls to mitigate risk, including managing SAST/SCA/ICS findings.
• Build and maintain security controls for on-prem, cloud-native, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Ensure project compliance to information security and industry related standards, policies, and procedures. Make recommendations to ISMS modification as needed.
• Make recommendations on confidentiality, integrity, and availability goals, as well as cryptography, proper authentication methods, network security, data storage and handling, and security of architectures and protocols planned to be used in a solution.
• Investigate and recommend security technologies for incorporation into the architecture of company products/services.
• Assists in the development of secure architecture and designs and provides training on security solutions.
• Works closely with IT Services on security aspects of Microsoft, UNIX-like, and mobile environments.
• Actively follow threat and attack landscape, new security architecture trends and solutions, and recommend implementation when and where applicable.

• Excellent communication, decision making and self-leadership skills.
• Programming background in writing or auditing Js, Python, Go, .Net, and/or the C family of languages.
• Ability to act independently and exercise good judgment as well as the ability to work cross-functionally.
• Experience and demonstration of implementing well architected, secure environments in one or more of the following operating systems, network and software security, AWS, GCP, Azure.
• 10 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree with a technical / computer science / technology major or equivalent experience in a computer science or engineering field.