Cybersecurity Architect - Remote / Telecommute

Cybersecurity Architect

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.?

Job Title: IT Cloud Cybersecurity Architect
Location: Remote
Imagine a company with technology leadership of over 160 years, yet it operates with the energy of a startup. Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planets. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies - from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gasses, and powers - to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end-markets including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. The IT Cloud Cybersecurity Architect sits within the Infrastructure organization and owns the technical architecture of Ingersoll Rand's PaaS and SaaS cloud footprint across Azure and AWS - designing scalable, resilient platform patterns while partnering closely with the cybersecurity team to ensure every architecture decision is secure by design. This role bridges infrastructure engineering and security, translating business and application requirements into cloud architecture standards that IR can build on for years to come.
Design and evolve enterprise PaaS and SaaS cloud architecture patterns across Azure and AWS, including landing zones, networking, compute, and platform services.
Define architecture standards and reference designs for cloud-native and hybrid workloads, ensuring scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency across the platform.
Partner closely with the cybersecurity team to embed security, identity, and compliance requirements directly into architecture designs from the outset.
Evaluate and select PaaS/SaaS platforms and services (e.g., database platforms, integration services, application hosting) to meet evolving business and application needs.
Lead technical design reviews for new infrastructure and application projects, ensuring alignment to enterprise architecture standards and roadmap.
Collaborate with network, cloud platform, and DBA teams to ensure architecture decisions integrate cleanly with existing infrastructure and operational practices.
Develop and maintain architecture documentation, diagrams, and decision records to guide engineering teams and support audits or reviews.
Stay current on emerging cloud architecture patterns and platform capabilities, recommending adoption where it advances IR's technology roadmap.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
5+ years of experience in cloud architecture roles, with hands-on design experience across PaaS and SaaS services in Azure and/or AWS.
2+ years of experience in cloud networking, landing zone design, and platform architecture patterns at enterprise scale.
2+ years of experience partnering with security or cybersecurity teams to build secure-by-design architecture.

Strong cross-functional collaboration, particularly with cybersecurity, network, and platform engineering teams.
Ability to translate business and application requirements into scalable, well-documented technical architecture.
Clear communicator, able to present architecture decisions and trade-offs to both technical and business audiences.
Self-directed and comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy in a remote setting.

Industry certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Solutions Architect, CISSP, or CCSP.
Terraform, ARM/Bicep) for repeatable architecture deployment.
Microsoft Entra ID) and its role in secure architecture design.
Experience with compliance and security frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, CIS) as they relate to architecture decisions.
Experience in a global industrial manufacturing or OT-adjacent IT environment.

Travel & Work Arrangements

This position is fully remote, based in the US (Eastern, Central Time Zone)
Minimal travel required, estimated at 0-10% annually for occasional team or project meetings.

The pay range takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skills; experience and training; Hired applicant will be eligible to receive (discretionary/nondiscretionary) annual bonuses and incentive compensation.
At Ingersoll Rand, we embrace a culture of personal ownership - taking responsibility for our company, our communities, and our environment, as well as our individual health and well-being. Our range of benefits includes health care options like medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, as well as wellness programs. Additionally, we provide life insurance, a robust 401(k) plan, paid time off, and even an employee stock grant, among other offerings. NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency.