At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
Available Locations: London, England
About the role
As an Security Architect you will play a key role in effectively designing secure network architectures, defensible builds & configurations, security platforms and automation, assisting in secure tool and product development, and will help establish security standards and guidelines across the enterprise. This role will focus on designing robust public key infrastructure and secrets management solutions to support Cloudflare’s secure authentication processes and encryption solutions for both our internal and client facing systems, users and applications. This role will also include collaborating with cross-functional teams including software engineering, cybersecurity, product management, etc. to integrate key management solutions into the Cloudflare environments. We are looking for a candidate that is passionate about cryptography and security. We are seeking Security Architects or Engineers proficient in strategy, design, and implementation of public key infrastructure and secrets management solutions to help make a better internet.
What You’ll Do
- Define security requirements for and design efficient public key infrastructure and secrets management solutions in complex environments.
- Take the lead security role in developing or enhancing existing enterprise-wide architectures, including Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), Certificate Authorities (CAs), Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM), Key Vaults (KV), and similar technologies.
- Create and drive the secrets management capability roadmap with enterprise stakeholders.
- Lead projects to implement secure enterprise systems and identify issues that could compromise data integrity or security.
- Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for PKI and secrets management across the enterprise.
- Develop security policies, procedures, and guidelines and recommend necessary changes to a given project team to ensure the company’s systems are fully compliant with all applicable regulatory requirements and privacy laws.
- Identify access management gaps and partners with application development teams for remediation.
- Design processes and workflows for rotation and revocation of secrets.
- Identify automation opportunities for lifecycle management of secrets.
- Utilize open communication and managerial courage to ensure the standards, expectations and goals of the organization are respected and upheld.
- Lead security-related public key infrastructure and secrets management projects from inception to successful completion.
- Effectively coach technology staff on appropriate security protocols and requirements as they implement new technology into the organization.
- Work on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
- In conjunction with engineering and operations, improve and develop sustainable processes.
- Leverage wide-ranging experiences, professional concepts, and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.
- Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
- Ensure security technology strategies are aligned with companies' business goals.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience.
- Extensive years of experience in an IT or Security related field heavily focused on secrets management and PKI.
- In-depth understanding of security concepts.
- Demonstrable expertise in cryptography, certificate management, and networking protocols.
- Hands-on experience with PKI technologies and standards such as X.509, OCSP, and CRL.
- Scripting / coding skills, in various languages, for automation.
- Knowledge of IT and Cybersecurity frameworks, such as NIST, FIPS, CSF, CIS, ISO 27001/2.
- Working knowledge of Cloud provider security architecture design patterns, and key control methods - Bring your own key, Hold your own key, partitioned HSMs.
- Experience with OWASP Web/API vulnerabilities and compensating controls (CSRF, XSS, SQLI, etc.)
- Understand how business, engineering, IT, and security processes align, and how to research, test, and implement solutions to complex objectives.
- Hands on experience in Information Security, specifically in PKI/Cryptography (on-premise and cloud) and secrets management.
- Experience in building Certificate Policy (CP) and Certificate Practice Statements (CPS)
- Experience with vendors such as Venafi, Hashicorp, Microsoft, Thales, etc.
- In-depth knowledge of Certificate Lifecycle Management, PKI Strategy and Design, and PKI Implementation.
- Experience producing and reviewing Technical Documentation.
Equity
This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.
Benefits
Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.
Health & Welfare Benefits
- Medical/Rx Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Commuter Spending Accounts
- Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance
Financial Benefits
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan
Time Off
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
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