Principal Cloud Architect / Private Cloud

Company: IronNet Cybersecurity
Location: Austin
Posted on: June 28, 2020

Job Description:

At IronNet Cybersecurity, our mission is simple:

To deliver the power of collective cybersecurity to defend companies, sectors, and nations. In response to cyber adversaries who increasingly collaborate for collective offense, leading organizations in our critical infrastructure are using collective defense strategies and solutions to meet these powerful and ever-changing threats. We believe that collective defense is our collective responsibility and we are leading the charge.

The Opportunity

IronNet's Architecture & Innovation team is growing. The Architecture & Innovation team is responsible for designing our future architecture across public & private infrastructures. We are looking for a Principal Cloud Architect for our Private Cloud offering to join the team with expert knowledge of the AWS ecosystem and the ability to design and communicate architectural components to product management, engineering, and executive management.

To be successful in this role, you must be able to . . .

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• Use virtualization to provide a cost-effective highly available and scalable architecture
• Understand and operate private and public cloud environments
• Ensure design facilitates multi-tenant confidentiality and integrity of data
• Communicate with team members, product managers, engineers, and executive management
• Communicate architectural design concepts through documentation to include engineering diagrams and specifications required for implementation
• Understand and work within the defined SDLC
• Understand and work with Infrastructure as Code
• Deep dive into build systems like Teamcity, Jenkins, or TravisCI.
• Use Docker and Linux platforms.
• Understand and be proficient with Kubernetes
  
  You must also be able and willing to . . .
  
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  • Turn proof of concept architectures into production environments.
  • Share knowledge and assist others in understanding technical topics.
  • Investigate new services and present the feasibility of IronNet using the service.
    
    You may be the person we need if your background aligns with the following . . .
    
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    • 12+ years of design & implementation experience with distributed systems and applications
    • 10+ years of experience in all facets of information technology systems (networking, distributed processing, data stores, etc.)
    • 5+ years of experience implementing virtual environments within AWS, Azure, and GCP
    • Deep understanding of virtualization environments (Nutanix, VMWare)
    • Advanced experience implementing high bandwidth ingest, analytic integration, persistence, and egress service models
    • Extensive knowledge of the software development life cycle & security
    • Extensive experience with software development tools & methodologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Git, etc.)
    • Strong ability to communicate (verbal, written, drawn) complex architectural concepts to product managers and engineers
      
      Personal Profile:
      
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      • Passion for championing projects from concept to delivery to customer.
      • Desire to be the best and prove it every day.
      • Commitment and aptitude to proactively find solutions to opportunities
      • Act with integrity and always do the right thing
      • Eagerness to learn and improve your own skills and to make those around you better.
      • Highly attentive to detail and able to abstract detail to higher levels
      • Sense of urgency and able to deliver under pressure with limited guidance
      • Great communicator--able to present and tell a story
        
        Benefits of Working at IronNet:
        
        IronNet strives to provide and takes pride in being able to offer comprehensive, essential and affordable benefits for our employees and their families. We offer an unlimited PTO plan, 401(k) match as well as Medical, Dental, Vision, and Disability Insurance.
        
        All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
        
        More About IronNet:
        
        IronNet delivers unmatched collective cyber threat detection for enterprise on-premise, cloud, and hybrid networks. We do this through the application of advanced behavioral analytics, AI, and machine learning techniques. Our team combines the tradecraft knowledge of the best offensive and defensive cyber operators in the world with world-class mathematicians and data scientists to engineer solutions that empower companies to defend against advanced threats.
        
        IronNet is recognized in Gartner's 2019 Market Guide for Network Traffic Analysis and was recently named a Vendor to Watch by Enterprise Management Associates. Our founder and Co-CEO, General (Ret) Keith Alexander, is a recognized cybersecurity innovator and a frequent speaker about current cyberthreats and effective defenses. We have a leadership team with deep government and commercial cyber experience and are advised by a board of esteemed security and venture investment professionals.
        
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