Strategic Cyber Security Domain Architect | Remote

Lever, Inc.; Ireland; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Enterprise security influence

Cloud and security breadth

Job summary

Lever, Inc. in Ireland is seeking an experienced Cyber Security Domain Architect to shape enterprise security strategies across cloud, infrastructure, identity, and data environments. You will define current-state and target-state architectures and drive multi-year roadmaps.

Working remotely, you will collaborate with senior stakeholders to translate business and regulatory requirements into robust security solutions, covering Zero Trust, IAM, and data protection at scale.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience as a Security Architect or in a closely related cybersecurity architecture role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
• Strong expertise in cybersecurity, enterprise security architecture, and security solution design.
• Proven experience designing and implementing Azure Security Architecture and Azure-native security controls and cloud governance.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID and Identity & Access Management (IAM).
• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware security architecture.
• Solid understanding of network segmentation, micro-segmentation, Zero Trust, and defense-in-depth security models.
• Hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Defender for Endpoint, and Defender for Identity.
• Strong understanding of security governance, risk and compliance, data protection, encryption, threat detection, and incident response.
• Experience developing security strategies, standards, controls, reference architectures, and multi-year security roadmaps.
• Ability to perform current-state and target-state architecture assessments, gap analyses, and security architecture reviews.
• Experience preparing Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and supporting Architecture Review Boards (ARBs).
• Strong ability to communicate complex cybersecurity concepts and provide trusted advice to senior and executive stakeholders.
• Experience working with healthcare or public-sector security and compliance frameworks is highly valuable.
• Ability to balance security requirements with business needs, operational realities, technical constraints, and risk considerations.
• Strong analytical, strategic-thinking, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Relevant professional certification such as CISSP, CISM, Azure Security Engineer Associate, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert is required or strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, evaluate, and maintain enterprise security architectures across cloud, infrastructure, identity, networking, and data environments.
• Develop current-state and target-state security architectures with alignment to enterprise principles and regulatory requirements.
• Define and maintain security standards, controls, reference architectures, and multi-year Security Domain roadmaps.
• Provide technical leadership across Azure and VMware Cloud Foundation environments, including cloud security and infrastructure protection.
• Design and strengthen security capabilities covering Microsoft Entra ID/IAM, Zero Trust, network segmentation, data protection, and encryption.
• Guide the implementation and governance of Microsoft security technologies, including Defender for Cloud, Endpoint, and Identity.
• Facilitate security roadmap workshops with stakeholders, build alignment, and secure approval for architectural directions.
• Support the implementation of roadmaps and track business, risk, compliance, and operational outcomes.
• Conduct security architecture reviews, gap assessments, risk analyses, and evaluations of solutions.
• Develop ADRs and ARB documentation to support architectural decisions.
• Evaluate emerging cybersecurity technologies and recommend solutions and mitigation strategies.
• Advise senior and executive stakeholders on risks, priorities, and remediation approaches.
• Contribute to threat detection, incident response, and resilience initiatives requiring architectural guidance.

Skills

Security Architecture

Azure Security

Identity & Access Management

Zero Trust

Network Segmentation

Threat Detection

Incident Response

Security Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Defender for Endpoint

Defender for Identity

Microsoft Entra ID

Job description

Lever, Inc. in Ireland is seeking an experienced Cyber Security Domain Architect to shape enterprise security strategies across cloud, infrastructure, identity, and data environments. You will define current-state and target-state architectures and drive multi-year roadmaps.

Working remotely, you will collaborate with senior stakeholders to translate business and regulatory requirements into robust security solutions, covering Zero Trust, IAM, and data protection at scale.