Cloud Security Architect

Job Description


We love design, and we love technology! Our diversity makes us strong and creates an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone’s individuality is highly valued.
The H&M Cloud and Datacenter area is growing. As we accelerate and soon reach 100% in cloud we need to strengthen our Cloud security tribe further. We’re looking for one more Cloud Security Architect to support the organization building secure and effective cloud solutions using DevOps practices.
Our Cloud area have been named best in class as a Center for Enablement for Cloud by Microsoft. We have been presenting our cloud transformation journey and success stories on events like Microsoft Ignite , DevOps Enterprise Summit and Tech Days Sweden. According to several external reviews we are far ahead of most enterprises in cloud maturity. Given that and our scale, we frequently push the agendas of GCP and Azure. We interact with their engineers and product teams to support our needs.
H&M has had Security on top of the agenda for some years and we have come far, but we are accelerating it even more with several exciting initiatives. With more platforms and the number of applications and 3rd party services ever growing we need to be smarter to handle the complexity and stay on top. Application security is a distributed responsibility handled by the 300+ product teams. But we need to continue building on the central security foundation and make security easy to see, consume and implement for the teams.
What you will do
Find new ways to improve our security posture related to our cloud platforms
Continuously improve the Cloud Security architecture roadmap based on enterprise architecture principals
Review security technologies, tools and services to see what should be implemented in our environment
Work with Microsoft and Google engineers on improvements of their products and keep track on new security technologies in their pipelines
Plan and discuss with developers and operations staff taking ideas and remediations into production

Provide cloud expertise related to security
Proactively review new cloud services and their potential security implications
Share knowledge and contribute to the overall security landscape e.g. during events and using our internal Security Champions networ
Support teams and product owners with security recommendations and improvements based on business risk
Participate in security decision forums on the development and steering of the overall security at H&M
Enable insights, improve visibility and monitoring
Create visibility of current security posture from various perspectives to enable correct prioritization
Proactively work with the SOC a.k.a. Cyber Defense Center to make sure they have the logs and tools needed
Collaborate with the Software Security Team on tools in pipeline and how we can improve the overall security for product teams

Be part of a great team and organization where security is top of mind
Your mindset & skills:
You have a deep interest in security and expertise of the security domain with 8+ of experience
You have 3+ year of experience as a security architect
You have experience with securing GCP or/and Azure
You have experience working in a highly agile environment, we constantly need to reevaluate how we do security to stay relevant and safe.
You are self-driven and like complex challenges
You have a passion for helping and educating others, you strive to make security easy to achieve for everyone
You enjoy moving between hands-on work on e.g. cloud security config and collaboratively defining enterprise level strategy.

Who are we?
Our Cloud platform and Cloud enablement teams enable our product organization, consisting of hundreds of autonomous teams, to do cloud in awesome ways. We set and execute on the cloud strategy. We provide platforms, guidelines, guardrails, patterns, practices, automation and self-service capabilities. In this way our product teams can consume cloud effectively and securely from day one.
At H&M, we believe in people and work as one team. It’s important to have fun and we always challenge each other to think creatively and to focus on value and outcomes.
We actively strive for continuous learning. We enjoy internal demo sessions, learning sessions and reserve days each sprint and have specific sprints for learning and innovation.
To succeed in this position, we believe that you have a pragmatic workstyle and drive towards solutions with focus on delivering outcome, while building strong and long-lasting relationships. You thrive when developing great people, not just great products.
H&M Group is a family of brands with the desire to make great design available to everyone in a sustainable and circular way. Rapid technological development is transforming the fashion retail industry. We are seizing this opportunity to not only challenge ourselves, but the whole industry with the aim to be the most impactful ecosystem. We operate on a large scale across 74 markets. From AI to data-driven business development, user experience to engineering, we turn business challenges into innovative tech solutions – making H&M Group a global leader in combining tech, fashion, and design.
What we offer!
Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, flexible work life, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits etc. you are joining a unique value driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. There are endless opportunities to experiment and grow in any direction that you want and when you grow, we grow. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.




Additional information


This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm. Please apply with CV and cover letter as soon as possible. Interviews will be held continuously. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Jakob Knutsson, at jakob.knutsson@hm.com, and about the recruitment process, please contact Helena Larbo, at Helena.larbo@hm.com.
We are looking forward to your application!