Cybersecurity Architect: Lead Secure-by-Design Architectures

Hut8; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hut 8 is seeking a Cybersecurity Architect in Florida to lead security design and build the technical capabilities protecting the enterprise across IT, data centers, cloud, SaaS, and AI/compute environments. The role translates strategy into architecture, reusable design patterns, technical standards, and implemented security capabilities, guiding implementation and ensuring durable security controls.

The Architect partners with Software, Networking, Data Engineering, and Operations teams to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• Strong knowledge of security architecture across identity, network, endpoint, cloud, SaaS, application, data, and infrastructure environments
• Experience designing security controls and reference patterns for cloud platforms, enterprise applications, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, production systems, and data environments
• Familiarity with OT, industrial control, data center, or other operational technology environments
• Experience with security architecture methods, threat modeling, risk assessments, zero trust principles, defense-in-depth design, and secure systems development practices

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of Hut 8’s security architecture principles, reference architectures, technical standards, and security-by-default patterns, then build the capabilities needed to apply them consistently.
• Translate cybersecurity strategy, risk priorities, and business requirements into executable architecture decisions and implementation roadmaps.
• Lead security architecture reviews for new platforms, applications, integrations, cloud services, infrastructure changes, AI/compute workloads, and operational technology environments.
• Design defense-in-depth architectures across identity and access management, privileged access, network segmentation, endpoint security, cloud, SaaS, application security, data security, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and OT or industrial control environments.
• Define practical security requirements for systems and services, including authentication, authorization, encryption, logging, monitoring, resiliency, secrets management, vulnerability management, and incident response readiness.
• Partner with engineering and technology teams to secure integrations, APIs, production platforms, data pipelines, and software delivery processes throughout the technology lifecycle
• Develop reusable security patterns and guardrails that enable teams to deliver securely and consistently at scale
• Identify material technology risks, evaluate alternatives, document decisions, and recommend risk-based treatment options to technology and business leaders
• Guide the design and evolution of security capabilities such as SIEM and security monitoring, EDR, vulnerability management, IAM, privileged access, cloud security, and security testing
• Review third-party products, vendors, and managed services for architectural fit, security risk, control coverage, and operational accountability
• Support threat modeling, attack-surface analysis, technical risk assessments, incident preparedness, and post-incident architectural remediation
• Establish architecture documentation, diagrams, standards, decision records, and operating procedures that make the security program repeatable and auditable
• Partner with GRC and audit stakeholders to ensure that security architecture and control decisions are documented, testable, and supported by evidence
• Mentor cybersecurity engineers and technical stakeholders on secure design, risk-based decision-making, operational discipline, and incident readiness
• Provide clear technical recommendations, tradeoffs, and status updates to the Cybersecurity Partner and technology leadership

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Zero trust

Defense-in-depth

Cloud security

Security engineering

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Hut 8 is seeking a Cybersecurity Architect in Florida to lead security design and build the technical capabilities protecting the enterprise across IT, data centers, cloud, SaaS, and AI/compute environments. The role translates strategy into architecture, reusable design patterns, technical standards, and implemented security capabilities, guiding implementation and ensuring durable security controls.

The Architect partners with Software, Networking, Data Engineering, and Operations teams to