Security Architect

Position Overview

As an experienced Security professional in the Autodesk Trust division, you will apply your diverse security and technology skills to guide security practices in a rapidly evolving landscape. Drawing on your extensive experience in security and information technology domains such as systems architecture, software architecture, cloud systems, network engineering, and security engineering, you'll establish or enable foundational standards, design patterns, and reference architectures. Your primary goal will be to help Autodesk to understand and implement Security requirements at business scale.

Autodesk embraces a hybrid-work policy, and you will work remotely from your home office with a team of Security Architects, reporting to a senior manager. Operating across all divisions of Autodesk, you'll ensure a comprehensive approach to security strategy. Your work informs security needs for the entire lifecycle of Autodesk products and services, encompassing creation, design, development, testing, implementation, and ongoing operation. In your role, you will not only apply your existing security expertise but also further develop and refine your skills within the context of Autodesk's large-scale operations.

Your role as a security architect does not have managerial responsibility. However, you will be comfortable as a technical leader; actively seeking, influencing, forming, and leading development of Security requirements across all Autodesk with numerous stakeholder types and formats.

Trust @ Autodesk

The Autodesk Trust Team is responsible for the core technical tenets of Autodesk's commitment to customer trust : security, privacy, compliance, and resiliency. Our mission is to become trusted partners to our customers by guiding and managing the essential processes, standards, and requirements that foster and ensure customer confidence in Autodesk products.

We oversee Autodesk's trust capabilities for the entire product and service lifecycle, from creation and design to development, testing, implementation, operation, and retirement. Our dedicated team works tirelessly to stay ahead of, and respond to threats that impact Autodesk and its customers in a constantly changing world. By joining the Autodesk Trust Team you will directly support Autodesk's high-quality products and services that customers can rely on. Trust is a journey, come along with us to help our customers design and make a better world for all!

Responsibilities

Collaborate to grow new security standards, reference designs, templates, and other security architecture artefacts across application, network, system, data, AI, and cloud security domains

Offer security consultation to assist product and service partners in designing security requirements and best practices

Conduct gap analysis to assess security need versus actual implementations in products, environments, and business systems

Establish and maintain consistent communication channels with partners within and outside of Autodesk Trust to identify security opportunities, act on them

Research and evaluate emerging technologies to identify security solutions that address gaps or enhance security capabilities

Apply risk calculations to security data at scale to facilitate strategic decision-making processes

Use systems design and thinking principles to translate and enable security at scale, ensuring cohesion across multiple security workstreams

Provide mentorship and promote security awareness through professional excellence and direct engagement

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years in security-focused, cloud-focused engineering, devops, or architecture roles

Familiarity with systems design and architectural constructs such as :

TOGAF

SABSA

COBIT

Significant hands-on experience with at least 8 / 11 of the following :

Vulnerability management

Public cloud IaaS engineering / architecture

System engineering or architecture

On-prem or traditional network engineering or architecture

Cloud network engineering or architecture

Application engineering or architecture

DevOps / DevSecOps including serverless and container / orchestration engineering and architecture

Standards and reference architecture creation

Risk or Compliance assessment

Penetration testing, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, or Forensics

Threat modelling

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About Autodesk

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We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Benefits

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Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $159,800 and $258,500. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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