Senior Cloud Security Architect

Job Title: Senior Cloud Security Architect
Location: Birmingham, AL, Columbia, SC, Knoxville, TN or Lafayette, LA
Type: Fulltime

Responsibilities

• The architect will work with product owners, enterprise architecture, engineering, and security teams to protect sensitive data, strengthen identity and access controls, secure cloud environments, and support compliance with enterprise policies and industry standards.
• The role requires strong AWS expertise and the ability to lead multiple security initiatives across IaaS, SaaS, and internally developed applications.

Requirements

• Extensive experience with security architecture and threat modeling for complex enterprise applications
• Strong knowledge of STRIDE, attack trees, abuse cases, data flow analysis, and trust boundary analysis
• Hands on experience evaluating security risks in AI, machine learning, and agentic AI applications
• Advanced AWS knowledge across IAM, networking, compute, storage, RDS, messaging, serverless, ECS/EKS, CI/CD, and AI/ML services
• Strong understanding of application security, API security, IAM, authentication, authorization, encryption, key management, and data protection
• Experience translating identified threats into practical security controls and remediation recommendations
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, pipeline security, container security, infrastructure security, SIEM, CSPM, and CWPP solutions
• Familiarity with security frameworks and standards such as NIST, OWASP, CIS, FedRAMP, ISO, and SOX
• Experience with resilient, highly available, API driven, stateless, and integrated cloud or SaaS environments
• Ability to lead multiple initiatives and communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders
• This position is required in one of the following locations: Birmingham, AL, Columbia, SC, Knoxville, TN or Lafayette, LA
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field
• Preferred certifications include CISSP, CCSP, AWS Professional or Specialty certifications, or equivalent credentials

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System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé, ALTA IT Services, TeamPeople, and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.