Staff Cloud Security Architect
Posted May 25, 2026
What you'll do
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Define and implement cloud security architecture frameworks, principles, and guidelines to secure enterprise cloud environments and workloads. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security maturity initiatives are prioritized effectively and addressed in a timely and sustainable manner. - Partner with cloud security architects, developers, and engineers to design scalable solutions addressing complex infrastructure-related security challenges. - Design, build proof of concept, tools, and platforms to proactively address and resolve security issues at scale. - Conduct architecture reviews, security assessments, threat modeling, and risk analysis of cloud-native services and infrastructure. - Establish secure reference architectures, reusable cloud security patterns, standards, and best practices to ensure consistency in cloud deployments at scale. - Lead efforts related to strategic planning and continuous improvement of cloud security capabilities, including public cloud native security products and third-party cloud security tools. - Partner with incident response teams and SOC analysts to ensure effective processes and technology are in place to quickly detect, investigate, and mitigate cloud security incidents. ## Experience you'll need
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Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related fields. - 15+ Years of experience securing complex on-prem or cloud deployments with a minimum of 6+ years of dedicated experience in cloud security architecture and design, including significant experience across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure environments. - Deep technical understanding of core cloud service models, including compute, network, and storage technologies on AWS, GCP, and/or Azure platforms. - Proficiency in at least one programming language or scripting language such as Python, Go, or Java for automating and managing security tools and processes. - Extensive working experience with containerized applications (Kubernetes, Docker), CI/CD pipelines, and microservices architectures. - 5+ years of experience with IAC (Infrastructure as a Code) deployments for complex systems [Terraform, Ansible etc]