CLOUD ARCHITECT - AWS Cloud Security

Role overview

CLOUD ARCHITECT - AWS Cloud Security at Happiest Minds

Responsibilities

• Assist in preparation of application architecture and drive solutions to address security concerns by working across IT teams and with vendors Conduct security assessments of applications and infrastructure migrating to AWS.
• Review encryption, data protection, logging, monitoring, and threat detection capabilities.
• Track recurring findings and recommend platform-level improvements to improve security maturity across the migration program.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enable future migrations to be more secure, standardized, and operationally efficient.

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru

Application details

• Partner with application teams to assess the design and security requirements of their applications.
• Assess network security controls, including security groups, firewall rules, segmentation, and application communication flows.
• Distinguish application-specific security findings from recurring or platform-wide security issues.

Additional role details

• Assist with all security related migration activities Submitting firewall, access, tooling, policy exception requests on behalf of the app team to ensure requests are valid and within Fairview requirements to remove unnecessary delays.
• Review workload architecture, connectivity, privileged access, service accounts, authentication, and authorization models.
• Evaluate vulnerability management, patching practices, operating system hardening, and security configurations.
• Identify security risks, technical debt, and modernization opportunities during migration activities.
• Partner with Cloud Engineering teams to enhance reusable Terraform modules, Infrastructure-as-Code standards, IAM frameworks, security guardrails, monitoring solutions, and security policies.
• Collaborate with Cyber Security Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Risk & Governance, Application Teams, Network Engineering, and SI partners to drive secure cloud adoption.
• Establish ownership and remediation plans for security findings that cannot be addressed during migration.
• Support implementation of security best practices aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework and Fairview security standards.