KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES AND DECISION OWNERSHIP:

• Impact on the business: This role will be responsible for ensuring that Vodafone’s cloud security roadmap supports the business objectives. The security architecture strategy and roadmap is a critical component of the overall strategy to protect the global Vodafone brand and our customer’s.
• Leadership and teamwork: The role holder will be one of a team of Security Architects delivering world-class cost effective security solutions into the Vodafone business. They will also be expected to lead security solution design projects and to highlight and clearly articulate risk mitigation requirements to the business. The ability to lead and influence security strategy at a senior technical level is paramount, but the role holder should be business focussed, with the clear objective of security being a business enabler and a strong capability to communicate the security risk.
• Innovation and change: The role holder will be responsible for driving a perception change from security from being seen as an inhibiter, to it being seen as a business differentiator.
• Customers, supplier and third parties – The individual will work heavily with all stakeholders to forge a community within Vodafone to promote secure by design. He or she will also work with Vodafone’s suppliers assessing and influencing their roadmaps to meet Vodafone’s Security Architecture.

CORE COMPETENCIES, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Expert knowledge of security architectures, technologies, standards and industry guidelines, especially those applicable to Public Cloud (SaaS, PaaS, Iaas) and Private/Hybrid Cloud.
• Expert knowledge of securing applications for an enterprise in key public and private/hybrid cloud vendors. Examples include AWS, Azure, Google, Vmware, Oracle, RedHat.
• Familiarity and experience of applying at least one secure solution or enterprise methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, SABSA)
• Demonstrable experience and proven track record, in designing and deploying security features for a global organisation’s IT infrastructure and applications.
• Excellent communication capabilities to provide rapid and concise summaries of complex scenarios and communicate security risk in business terms and the ability to interact effectively with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Recognised to be able to become a (L5/L6 Technical Career Path).
• Consultancy Skills delivered in culturally aware global corporate environments.
• Ability and willingness to lead teams as well as be an independent single contributor.

WHO WE ARE

You may have already heard of Vodafone - We’re a leading Telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. But what you might not know is that we are continuously investing in new technologies to improve the lives of millions of customers, businesses and people around the world, creating a better future for everyone.
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ROLE PURPOSE

Reporting directly to the Group Head of Security Strategy & Secure by Design, the Cloud Security lead looks to the future to refine and shape the global Vodafone security posture with respect to Vodafone’s Cloud security strategy and the transformation programme. They are responsible for leading a range of technical work to develop Vodafone’s cloud security architecture to protect all aspects of Vodafone’s IT systems.
Acting as a Secure Systems Design Authority, the role is responsible for Secure Solutions Design and engaging the delivery teams to plan and implement the right security control within cloud. They work with Vodafone’s major strategic Public, Private & Hybrid Cloud programmes, planning controls to counter emerging threats and address evolving technology. They will develop the blueprint of technical security controls and corresponding roadmaps, assessing and influencing suppliers.
They are responsible for designing solutions and developing reference architectures that both balance security risk and protect customers, with user experience and business innovation. They also work across all local markets and Group entities to set the global IT security standards for Vodafone. This role also involves working with Group Privacy & Legal functions.
The individual is expected to have a good understanding the latest research, vulnerability disclosures and policy topics with cloud architectures especially where they might have an impact on Vodafone and its customers, across all markets.
The individual will work with engineering functions, to embed and enable cloud engineering teams to access, develop and manage cloud security tools. The individual is expected to develop and lead this community across Vodafone.
They will work to understand and improve security in various technologies and our global vendors. The role provides a sense of balance across the wider cyber security team to ensure security controls are implemented to support each other, are measured to demonstrate risk reduction and prepare Vodafone and it’s customers for the evolving threat landscape.
They will work closely with suppliers of public and private cloud technology, understanding their security position and roadmap, and reflecting that within Vodafones roadmap (which the role holder must own)