Remote Senior Cloud Security Architect

CDM Smith; Baton Rouge (LA); Remote; USD 123,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead the architecture of public, private and hybrid clouds with a focus on secure infrastructure and applications. You will drive security across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, mentor staff, and align architecture with cybersecurity strategies to support the business while reducing risk.

The role requires deep cloud security expertise, incident response readiness, and collaboration with IT and application development leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree. (required)
• 5 years of related experience.
• Equivalent additional directly related experience considered in lieu of a degree.

Responsibilities

• Architect and articulate a scalable, secure cloud vision across public, private and hybrid clouds.
• Lead security architecture design with SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.
• Provide guidance on secure design, build, testing and deployment across cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor junior team members and collaborate with security, architecture and engineering leadership.
• Draft cybersecurity strategies aligning with regulations (CMMC, NIST).
• Oversee vulnerability management controls and incident response.

Skills

Cloud security

Cloud architecture

IAM & encryption

Threat modeling

Security operations

Education

Bachelor's Degree

5 years related experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead the architecture of public, private and hybrid clouds with a focus on secure infrastructure and applications. You will drive security across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, mentor staff, and align architecture with cybersecurity strategies to support the business while reducing risk.

The role requires deep cloud security expertise, incident response readiness, and collaboration with IT and application development leadership.