[Hiring] Principal Software Architect @INSPYR Solutions

Role Description

You will serve as a hands-on architect who earns credibility by building working solutions, not by writing about them. Your mission is to influence infrastructure teams to confidently rearchitect systems for resilience against next generation security threats, making sound security a first-order property of how we design and build. We believe security is not a checkpoint but a continuous journey that begins at the earliest stages of development and infrastructure planning.

You will influence executive and engineering stakeholders without authority and develop followership around modern Shift-Left approaches that integrate security seamlessly into the infrastructure lifecycle, leveraging purple-team dynamics to foster a proactive culture that anticipates, de-risks, and mitigates threats before they materialize. This is a principal-level role that leads through influence and long-term thinking, and you are as comfortable prototyping a solution as you are presenting it directly to SVP- and C-level executives.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of combined experience across cybersecurity, networking, and system administration, with at least 4 years in an architecture role.
• Expert-level understanding of modern security practices, including Shift-Left, Zero-Trust, and threat modeling.
• Advanced knowledge of hybrid cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS services, Kubernetes implementations, IaC, network architecture, and PKI.
• Experience designing service-to-service communication with gRPC, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka).
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Ansible.
• Grounding in SRE principles and a metrics-driven approach to reliability and observability (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
• Hands-on experience with modern identity and modern continuous-delivery patterns.
• Proven ability to influence the design of large-scale systems and drive cross-team adoption through working examples.
• A track record of prototyping and shipping solutions that demonstrate architectural excellence and command technical respect.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, up to and including C-level executives.
• Hands-on experience with foundational computer science tradeoffs with systems design patterns using Golang, Python, Rust, and modern CNCF projects.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field; advanced degree or relevant certifications (CISSP, CISM, etc.) preferred.

Requirements

• Influence the design of secure architecture for large-scale systems, balancing flexibility, maintainability, and performance.
• Prove out solutions by building them — prototype before declaring something too difficult or unworkable.
• Assess decentralized, hybrid technical infrastructure and introduce cost-efficient measures that strengthen existing defensive resiliency.
• Introduce practical, cost-efficient, layered Zero-Trust protections into core technology infrastructure to anticipate and defend against active, sophisticated threat actors.
• Set engineering standards and reference implementations that raise the quality of secure infrastructure across teams.
• Guide infrastructure teams on proven patterns and drive cross-team alignment on architectural decisions.
• Proactively identify, anticipate, solution, and track security concerns using modern threat-modeling approaches that balance quantitative business concerns with qualitative business risks.
• Develop a deep understanding of operational dependencies across company systems to confidently model threats to business continuity and balance security risks with business priorities.
• Embed modern identity and modern continuous-delivery patterns into how teams ship.
• Anticipate challenges and avoid problems, conflicts, and rework by finding efficient, sustainable patterns to business-value delivery.
• Lead by doing — model patterns, processes, standards, and practices that materially improve how teams implement effective cyber protections across disparate technologies and architectures.
• Stay up to date with emerging threats and technologies across public and private cloud, open-source, and vendor solutions, applying them to strengthen our posture.

Benefits

• Compensation: $220,000-260,000 Annual Base Salary
• Work Requirements: U.S. Citizen, GC Holders, or Authorized to Work in the U.S.