Information Security Architect - Product Engineering: Platforms

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We provide expert, sustainable solutions in records and information management, digital transformation services, data centers, asset lifecycle management, and fine art storage, handling, and logistics. We proudly partner every day with our 225,000 customers around the world to preserve their invaluable artifacts, extract more from their inventory, and protect their data privacy in innovative and socially responsible ways. 

Are you curious about being part of our growth stor​y while evolving your skills in a culture that will welcome your unique contributions? If so, let's start the conversation.

Job Summary: 

At Iron Mountain, we protect what our customers value most: their information and assets. As an Information Security Architect, you will play a key role in ensuring the security, compliance, and resilience of our technology infrastructure. You will design and implement security solutions that safeguard sensitive data, systems, and operations against the rapidly evolving threat landscape. This position is vital for our ongoing commitment to maintaining best-in-class security for both our customers and our internal operations.

Iron Mountain’s Global Technology Organization is looking for a Lead Architect who will be responsible for leading InSight DevOps initiatives and will be responsible for working with the DevOps and Development teams to deliver functionality in a quarterly release cycle.  The position requires a strong Engineering leader capable of working with teams of engineers to define design and implementation for new capabilities.  This leader will be accountable for timely releases and meeting business deadlines, providing tradeoffs with the product team.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in design and delivery of service based functionality within the Agile development lifecycle. They will have experience with architecting, designing platforms, microservices development for cloud-based services in highly performant systems.  Experience with cloud deployments and architectures (GCP, Amazon, Azure), Cloud cost management and governance and experience with building observability features is required.

An ideal candidate for this role must be a passionate, team-oriented problem solver who understands and differentiates between what users want vs. what they need to create industry leading solutions. They should demonstrate an hybrid approach of business and technical acumen and understanding of consumer centricity to enable digital experiences.  The ideal leader will consistently lead by example, be a role model, and a strong change agent for your team and the larger technology team.

Organizational Leadership:

• Executive Leadership

• Building & leading high-performance teams

• Risk & Change Management

• Global delivery & team management

• Outsourcing & cost optimization

• Technology Portfolio / Program Management

Responsibilities:

• Participate in design discussions about the technical implementation and consider the tradeoffs to support business value, scalability and delivery timeline.

• Guide the DevOps team in building effective CI/CD pipelines in GitLab (with zero to minimal human intervention required)

• Hands on experience with Terraform and Helm

• Works with Enterprise Cloud Services teams to implement and build scalable systems

• Handles security considerations, anticipates security risks

• Manage configurations for SQL and Cloud based systems

• Handle disaster recovery and support scenarios

• Meet SOC/ISO, NIST and  GDPR compliance requirements

• Lead daily scrums and planning sessions with DevOps and Engineering team as a Technical Manager

• Provide cloud architecture oversight and best practices  

• Work with third-parties and hyperscalers to integrate with InSight

• Assist Sales/Pre-Sales and Professional Services teams with customer requests for proposals

Qualifications:

• Strong communication, collaboration and problem solving skills with a track record of delivering production grade systems in a team environment

• Experience in mentoring team members

• Motivated individual who learns quickly, has pride in building a new product and can engage others to accelerate technical solutions

• Familiarity with implementation design patterns and performance challenges

• Experience in working with distributed teams

• Overall experience of 15 plus years in Software Engineering space

• Minimum 8 years of experience leading Software Engineering teams

• Minimum 5 years of experience architecting, designing platforms and leading platform development teams

• 5 years of experience working with Agile methodologies

• 4 years of experience interfacing with and deploying services to Cloud

• 5 years of experience with Google Cloud Platform or AWS or Azure

• 3 years working with Kubernetes in Cloud (AWS EKS or Google GKE or Azure AKS). Strong hands-on experience building enterprise scalable Kubernetes infrastructure

• 3 years hands on experience with Terraform and Helm

• Cloud network optimization

• Experience in developing scalable micro services and API gateways

• Experience with server oriented architectures and web platform applications with ability to define and integrate with APIs and REST services

• Architectural governance and security review experience

• Experience with agile tools such as Atlassian JIRA,  GItLab or Github

• Mastery of code repositories such as subversion / git and artifactory repos

Education and/or Experience:

Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; Masters degree is a plus.  Should have at least 5 plus years of hands-on DevOps experience.

Certifications:

Cloud DevOps certification preferred, but not required.

This role may require occasional travel based on business needs.