Senior Cloud Security Architect

Sr. Cloud Security Architect

The Sr. Cloud Security Architect will act as a cloud security subject matter expert, responsible for designing, reviewing, and improving secure cloud architectures across enterprise environments. The role focuses on reducing cloud security risks, guiding secure design decisions, and enabling product teams to implement secure, scalable, and compliant cloud solutions.

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in cloud security architecture, design, and implementation required.
• Experience performing security architectural reviews and identifying risks in cloud environments required.
• Experience evaluating technical documentation and infrastructure diagrams for security issues required.
• Experience designing and implementing secure systems in AWS, GCP, or Azure required.
• Experience with IAM policies, least privilege design, and cloud security controls required.
• Experience with cloud networking, IP routing, VPNs, and hybrid environments required.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Node.js, or Golang required.
• Experience with containerized and serverless environments preferred.
• Experience with DevSecOps tools and cloud-native security platforms preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a cloud security subject matter expert for the Information Security team.
• Identify and drive opportunities to reduce cloud security risk across systems and platforms.
• Create and maintain design artifacts, architecture diagrams, and security documentation.
• Partner with product teams to design secure network and serverless architectures.
• Provide IAM policy guidance to ensure least privilege access across environments.
• Review cloud architectures and identify security issues prior to deployment.
• Evaluate cloud security vendor solutions and participate in proof-of-value assessments.
• Collaborate with cloud providers to improve security capabilities and integrations.
• Monitor cloud security costs and assess impact of security controls.
• Mentor junior security engineers and contribute to team development.
• Maintain documentation for cloud security designs, standards, and processes.
• Stay current with emerging cloud threats and mitigation strategies.

Should Have:

• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure security and hybrid environments.
• Ability to identify and mitigate security risks in complex architectures.
• Strong understanding of compliance and enterprise security standards.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and rapidly changing requirements.

Skills:

• Cloud Security Architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• IAM policy design and least privilege implementation.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible).
• Docker and Kubernetes security.
• Serverless security design.
• AWS Security tools (GuardDuty, WAF).
• Cloud networking (VPC, routing, VPNs).
• GitHub Security and DevSecOps practices.
• Elastic Stack and security monitoring tools.
• Scripting: Python, Node.js, Golang, Bash, PowerShell.

Qualification And Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field required.