[Hiring] Senior Security Architect @CDM Smith

Role Description

The Senior Security Architect role is responsible for leading the architecture of public, private, and hybrid clouds. The senior architect will lead and advise on advanced secure cloud infrastructure supporting business needs. The role requires deep technical knowledge of cloud computing architecture, security principles, and cybersecurity best practices. The position will design secure infrastructure and applications that align with business and cybersecurity strategies to support a fast-paced environment.

• Architect and articulate a scalable and resilient vision for secure public, private and hybrid clouds.
• Advise our Cloud team and Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) on secure deployments and configurations.
• Review architecture plans and closely partner with our Enterprise Architecture (EA) group.
• Lead security architecture design with SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.
• Provide guidance and direction on secure design, build, testing and deployment across cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with security, architecture and engineering leadership to support business objectives.
• Identify and enforce enterprise standards to support secure, resilient and compliant solutions.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point of contact for problem resolution, including incident response.
• Identify risk-related issues and architect solutions to avoid potential security incidents and business impact.
• Mentor junior team members and share knowledge with technical and project team leads.
• Create architecture policies aligning with industry best practices for cybersecurity and resiliency.
• Draft cybersecurity strategies aligning with business objectives to comply with regulations (CMMC, NIST, etc.).
• Design security for monitoring, logging, IAM, encryption, data protection, detection and preventive controls.
• Require technical leads and other subject matter experts to ensure configurations are aligned, adopted and implemented.
• Oversee compensating controls for vulnerability management mitigation in technical teams’ operational responsibilities.
• Orchestrate scalable, resilient and efficient containerized microservices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 5 years of related experience.
• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Domestic and/or international travel may be required.

Requirements

• Extensive combined IT, cloud, and cybersecurity experience.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Passion for Cybersecurity & Enterprise Architecture.
• Ability to stay current with evolving cybersecurity technologies, trends and best practices.
• Demonstrates good communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to balance strategic and tactical priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

• No Travel is required.