Cybersecurity Architect - Threat and Vulnerability Management

Creative Artists Agency; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Benefits package

Job summary

Creative Artists Agency is looking for a Cybersecurity Architect to join our team in Nashville. This hybrid position demands expertise in designing enterprise security architecture aligned with real-world threats. The ideal candidate will work closely with engineering and product teams, ensuring a secure software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities include leading security architecture initiatives and developing secure design patterns for cloud environments. A Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity and 7 years of relevant experience are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with at least 2–3 years in architecture or senior engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience in Cyber Threat and Offensive Security operations.
• Strong understanding of the fundamental operations of servers, operating systems, networks, and cloud applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve enterprise security architecture with secure‑by‑design principles.
• Lead the development of secure design patterns for cloud-native environments.
• Conduct architecture risk assessments and provide actionable remediation strategies.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Cloud security (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Network security

Scripting (PowerShell, Python, JavaScript)

Zero Trust architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

Position Overview

We are seeking a strategic and hands‑on Cybersecurity Architect to join our Purple Team, responsible for designing, validating, and continuously evolving enterprise security architecture in alignment with real‑world adversarial threats. This role operates at the intersection of offensive and defensive security, leveraging Red Team insights and Blue Team capabilities to ensure systems are secure by design, resilient by default, and continuously tested against emerging attack techniques. As a key leader in our security organization, the Cybersecurity Architect will drive the development of secure design principles, reference architectures, and security standards across a modern, SaaS‑enabled and cloud‑first ecosystem. This includes securing complex identity flows, third‑party integrations, APIs, and distributed systems while addressing the shared responsibility model inherent in SaaS platforms. The ideal candidate brings a deep understanding of attacker methodologies and defensive controls, applying that knowledge to proactively identify architectural weaknesses, reduce attack surface, and enhance detection and response capabilities. This individual will work closely with engineering, cloud, and product teams to embed security into the software development lifecycle, ensuring that security is not an afterthought but a foundational component of system design. This role requires a balance of technical depth and strategic influence, with responsibility for translating complex threats into actionable architectural improvements and guiding the organization toward Zero Trust and secure‑by‑design maturity. Success in this position will be measured by the organization’s ability to prevent, detect, and respond to sophisticated threats, as well as by the strength and scalability of its security architecture across both enterprise and SaaS environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve enterprise security architecture with a strong emphasis on secure‑by‑design principles, ensuring security is embedded early in system and application lifecycles.
• Lead the development and adoption of secure design patterns and reference architectures, particularly for cloud‑native and SaaS‑based environments.
• Act as a key liaison between Red Team and Blue Team, translating adversarial findings into architectural improvements, detection use cases, and resilient system designs.
• Plan and execute Purple Team exercises to validate security controls across infrastructure, applications, and SaaS platforms, ensuring visibility and response capabilities are effective.
• Develop and maintain threat models for critical systems, including SaaS integrations, APIs, and identity flows, identifying attack paths and prioritizing mitigations.
• Define and enforce security architecture standards for SaaS adoption.
• Assess and secure SaaS ecosystems, including third‑party integrations, OAuth applications, and API exposure risks.
• Evaluate and recommend controls for modern architectures, including Zero Trust, microservices, containers, and serverless environments.
• Drive improvements in detection engineering by mapping adversary TTPs (e.g., via MITRE ATT&CK) to logging, alerting, and response capabilities.
• Collaborate with cloud and platform teams to ensure secure configuration and continuous compliance across SaaS and IaaS environments.
• Conduct architecture risk assessments and provide actionable remediation strategies aligned with business risk tolerance.
• Promote security observability across SaaS platforms by ensuring proper logging, telemetry, and integration with SIEM/SOAR solutions.
• Mentor engineers and architects on secure design principles, SaaS security risks, and adversarial thinking.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with at least 2–3 years in architecture or senior engineering roles.
• Hands‑on experience in Cyber Threat and Offensive Security operations to test and validate the effective operation of security controls, measuring the ability to stop threats and attacks at the earliest point in the kill chain.
• Strong knowledge of network security, cloud security (AWS/Azure/GCP), and enterprise architectures.
• Strong understanding of the fundamental operations of servers, operating systems, networks, cloud applications and infrastructure along with an advanced understanding of the key controls required for secure operation of these systems.
• Experience scripting in at least one of the following languages: PowerShell, Python, JavaScript.
• Experience in aligning threat and vulnerability management efforts to frameworks and control objectives – MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, ISO27001, Center for Internet Security, OWASP.
• Experience integrating Security Orchestration Automation and Response, Security Information and Event Management, Vulnerability Scanning, Security Threat Feeds, Red Team Tooling into a threat and vulnerability program.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust architecture and modern identity security practices.

Location

This role is hybrid, based in our Nashville office.

Compensation

The annual base salary for this position is in the range of $179,000 - $205,000 in Nashville. This position is also eligible for benefits and a discretionary bonus. Ultimately, the salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in the role, business sector, and geographic location, among other criteria. Please talk with a CAA Recruiter to learn more.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Creative Artists Agency, LLC (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate on the basis of race (inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, creed, gender or sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, family and medical care leave status, military or veteran status, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, political affiliation, an employee’s or their dependent’s reproductive health decision making (e.g., the decision to use or access a particular drug, device or medical service), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. The absence of a permanent address is not a bar to employment. The Company does not discriminate against individuals based on housing status, including the absence of a fixed address. The Company also complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws with regard to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities. CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third‑party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.