Cloud DevSecOps Security Architect | App Security Leader

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen); Naples (FL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k

Job summary

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) seeks an Application Security Architect to join our technology team in Florida. You will bridge security architecture with engineering, DevOps, and cloud security, leading secure design reviews and implementing policy-as-code and automated validation.

Key focus includes establishing a Cloud Security Posture Management practice, governing CI/CD pipelines, IaC, containers, and software supply chain security, while communicating risks to both technical and non-technical

Qualifications

• Experience leading or supporting secure design reviews for application, cloud, commercial, and hybrid solutions.
• Experience reviewing technical architecture, system interaction, and data-flow diagrams.
• Experience with application security architecture, cloud security, DevOps security, and security engineering.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions and workflows, infrastructure as code, containers, and software supply-chain security.
• Experience assessing cloud permissions, secrets management, deployment architecture, container images, orchestration configurations, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Experience connecting technical security risks to practical controls and business outcomes.
• Ability to communicate technical risks and security requirements to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to build relationships and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in secure design reviews for proprietary, commercial, cloud, and hybrid solutions.
• Document identified risks, required mitigations, risk owners, exceptions, and residual-risk decisions.
• Review system interaction diagrams and detailed logical, functional, physical, and data-flow diagrams.
• Identify trust boundaries, security boundaries, integration points, administrative interfaces, data stores, and external dependencies.
• Develop reusable security standards, assessment patterns, review templates, control baselines, and architectural guidance.
• Establish and build a Cloud Security Posture Management practice by coordinating the appropriate people, processes, technology, governance, and service expectations.
• Assess cloud permissions, secrets management, deployment architecture, infrastructure as code, container images, orchestration configurations, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Identify opportunities to prevent configuration issues and policy violations before deployment through policy-as-code, automated validation, and reusable engineering guardrails.
• Provide technical security leadership across Development, Cloud, Platform, Product, Data, Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, and Risk teams.
• Connect code, pipeline, identity, integration, data, and cloud architecture risks to practical security controls and business outcomes.
• Distinguish mandatory security requirements from recommendations and risk-based enhancements.
• Escalate unresolved material risks through established risk-acceptance processes.
• Communicate technical risks, required controls, exceptions, ownership, and residual risk to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Build strong partnerships, improve developer engagement with Application Security, and influence teams without direct authority.

Skills

Cloud security

DevOps security

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

Infrastructure as code

Security architecture

Threat modeling

NIST frameworks

API security

Secure design reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) seeks an Application Security Architect to join our technology team in Florida. You will bridge security architecture with engineering, DevOps, and cloud security, leading secure design reviews and implementing policy-as-code and automated validation.

Key focus includes establishing a Cloud Security Posture Management practice, governing CI/CD pipelines, IaC, containers, and software supply chain security, while communicating risks to both technical and non-technical