Chief Security Architect — Remote, Equity, Impact

Cyberjobs; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote work

Vacation policy

Wellness budget

Learning & development support

Travel opportunities

Architectural ownership

Job summary

Partner Company is seeking a Head of Security in the United States. This hands‑on leadership role will own security strategy and execution across cloud infrastructure, production systems, and engineering platforms.

You will lead incident response, manage risks, and embed security into engineering workflows while building and guiding a growing security team. The ideal candidate has 8+ years in cybersecurity with a strong engineering background, deep cloud security expertise, and experience

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cybersecurity with high‑availability, internet-facing infrastructure security.
• Strong engineering background with ability to read/write code and implement security solutions.
• Deep expertise in cloud security, production environments, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience in security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response leadership.
• Experience building or scaling a security program from the ground up.
• Experience securing developer‑facing products, APIs, or critical infrastructure.
• Knowledge of IAM, secrets management, cryptographic keys, and infrastructure security practices.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and ability to influence engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the overall security strategy, roadmap, and priorities across infrastructure and production systems.
• Establish and improve security controls for IAM, secrets management, network segmentation, logging, monitoring and threat detection.
• Own the incident response lifecycle, including detection, investigation, mitigation, recovery, runbooks, and on‑call readiness.
• Develop threat models and risk registers; prioritize security initiatives by business impact.
• Partner with engineering to embed security into development processes and deployment workflows.
• Assess and manage third‑party, vendor, and software supply‑chain security risks.
• Lead the compliance roadmap; coordinate audits and customer security assessments.
• Build, hire, mentor and develop the security team as the organization grows.
• Communicate risks, incidents, and mitigations clearly to executives, engineers and stakeholders.
• Provide hands‑on leadership; investigate systems and address critical vulnerabilities.

Skills

Security leadership

Cloud security

Incident response

Security strategy

Security architecture

Job description

Partner Company is seeking a Head of Security in the United States. This hands‑on leadership role will own security strategy and execution across cloud infrastructure, production systems, and engineering platforms.

You will lead incident response, manage risks, and embed security into engineering workflows while building and guiding a growing security team. The ideal candidate has 8+ years in cybersecurity with a strong engineering background, deep cloud security expertise, and experience