Sr. Cyber Security Architect

Sony Corporation of America, located in New York, NY, is the U.S. headquarters of Sony Group Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth. To learn more: www.sony.com/en.

POSITION SUMMARY

Sony Corporation of America (SCA) is seeking a Sr. Cyber Security Architect to join the Corporate Information Security organization located in the Reston, VA. This position will be a part of the team responsible for establishing a unified enterprise security architecture, key security controls and models, while being subject matter experts for various security areas to ensure our security practices and controls constantly improve. The Sr. Cyber Security Architect will have a good balance of business and technical knowledge and will be comfortable across many disciplines of Information Technology and demonstrate a strong passion for Information Security.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive maturity of Sony’s security baseline
• Define, document, and promote security architecture, and technical standards, throughout Sony. ​
• Support threat modeling of global enterprise architecture protections and detections ​
• Map controls/security tool coverage to enterprise matrix against TTPs to show coverage points, volume, and effectiveness.
• Maintain and improve security architectures for common IT use cases.
• Enhance protection and response capabilities against cyber threats.
• Provide security knowledge to aid business in making risk-based decisions.
• Apply security knowledge to threat analysis to identify and design risk mitigation outcomes and detections scenarios.
• Support research, threat modeling, and strategic risk-informed advisory of existing and emerging IT trends and technologies
• Maximize security posture of operations and monitoring capabilities. ​
• Design, prove out, and document security specific solutions when required.
• Support architectural reviews/ assessments for major projects.
• Review protection and monitoring capabilities for coverage of critical areas and assets
• Assist with security assessment and approval of IT architectural changes.
• Manage multiple security architecture engagements for high visibility and complex projects.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR POSITION

Your qualifications and experience should include:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in one or more of the following areas Information Security, Information Technology
• Experience with Threat Modeling or technical security risk assessment
• Networking and Email communication expertise preferred.
• Experience in communicating complex security concepts, both verbally and in writing, to a variety of audiences
• Knowledge of tools, tactics and techniques used by attackers to enter corporate environments.
• Ability to build working relationships across diverse enterprise structure.
• Strong work ethic and commitment to accomplish assigned tasks with urgency.
• Advanced Written, Verbal, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Task Prioritization skills.
• Strong aptitude for continuous self- learning
• Advanced analytical skills
• Ability to mentor and engage employees
• Ability to effectively engage with various Global Sony Affiliates
• All candidates must be authorized to work in the US.

In addition to competitive pay and benefits, we offer an environment and culture that promotes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We are committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for you to thrive as part of Sony’s purpose to “fill the world with emotion through the power of creativity and technology”.

Benefits:

SCA offers benefits-eligible employees (generally regular employees scheduled to work 20 or more hours a week) a comprehensive benefits program that offers coverage and support for employees and their family’s physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

What we offer you:

• Comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage with coverage for spouses/domestic partners and child dependents, including access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee assistance plan and comprehensive behavioral health benefits
• Fertility benefits, including surrogacy, and adoption assistance programs
• Basic and supplemental life insurance for employees as well as supplemental life insurance coverage for their spouses/domestic partners and children
• Voluntary benefits such as group legal, identity theft protection, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
• Short-term & long-term disability plans
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• 401(k) Plan with pre-tax, Roth, and after-tax options and company match with immediate vesting

Other Programs:

• Time off to include vacation, paid holidays, sick leave, Summer Fridays (early release), and a winter break between Christmas and New Year’s Day (based on business needs) Referral bonuses (subject to eligibility)
• Matching gift program
• A wide variety of employee business resource groups (EBRGs)
• Special discounts on Sony products, offered exclusively to Sony employees
• Employee stock purchase plan (Sony covers commissions and fees for your Sony stock purchases made through after-tax payroll deductions)
• Annual incentive bonus

The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $150,000 to $165,000. This range does not include any other compensation components or other benefits that an individual may be eligible for. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

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