Enterprise AI & Cloud Security Architect

Cooley LLP; Colorado; On-site; USD 120,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Paid time off (PTO) - 21 days

10 paid holidays per year

Parental leave

Job summary

Cooley LLP is seeking a Technology Cyber Security Architect to join the technology team. The role focuses on designing advanced security architectures across on-premises, hybrid, and AI-enabled environments, with emphasis on AI security and regulatory compliance. A 7x24 on-call rotation is required.

The candidate will mentor security engineers, collaborate with Engineering, Infrastructure, and Data teams, and ensure security controls are deployed across systems and AI/ML platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, or related field is preferred.
• CISSP, CISM or equivalent security certification is desirable.
• Experience designing and implementing security controls in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise security architecture across on-premises, hybrid, and AI-enabled environments.
• Define security standards, patterns, and reference architectures aligned with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct security architecture reviews for new systems, applications, AI/ML platforms, and major technology changes.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, and data teams to embed security, privacy, and governance into system design and delivery.
• Design security controls for AI/ML systems, including data pipelines, model training environments, inference platforms, and AI integrations.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to AI systems, such as data leakage, model poisoning, prompt injection, and adversarial attacks.
• Evaluate and recommend security tools, platforms, and AI-enabled security technologies.
• Ensure architectures comply with applicable legal, regulatory, and industry frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, emerging AI regulations).
• Establish guardrails for responsible and secure use of generative AI and large language models, including access controls, monitoring, logging, and auditability.
• Support incident response, forensic investigations, and post-incident architecture improvements.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to security engineers and other technical stakeholders.
• Communicate architectural decisions and security risks clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
• Required to participate in a 7x24 on-call rotation.
• All other duties as assigned or required.

Skills

Cyber security

Security architecture

Threat detection

AI security

Regulatory compliance

Team mentorship

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or CS

CISSP/CISM or equivalent

Tools

WAF

DLP

SIEM

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud security tools

Encryption

Job description

Cooley LLP is seeking a Technology Cyber Security Architect to join the technology team. The role focuses on designing advanced security architectures across on-premises, hybrid, and AI-enabled environments, with emphasis on AI security and regulatory compliance. A 7x24 on-call rotation is required.

The candidate will mentor security engineers, collaborate with Engineering, Infrastructure, and Data teams, and ensure security controls are deployed across systems and AI/ML platforms.