Remote Senior Cloud Security Architect

CDM Smith; Montgomery (AL); Remote; USD 123,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith seeks a Senior Security Architect to lead secure cloud architecture across public, private and hybrid environments. You will guide secure deployments, review plans with EA, and mentor teams to strengthen cloud security posture.

This role emphasizes cyber risk mitigation and governance across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, with opportunities to influence enterprise security strategy. The position requires strong cloud security expertise, collaboration with security leadership, and the ability to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 5 years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect secure public, private and hybrid cloud visions.
• Advise on secure deployments and configurations for cloud teams.
• Review architecture with the Enterprise Architecture group.
• Lead security architecture for SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.
• Provide guidance on secure design, build, testing and deployment.
• Collaborate with security, architecture and engineering leadership.
• Enforce enterprise standards for secure, resilient and compliant solutions.
• Serve as SME and incident escalation point.
• Identify risk‑related issues and architect mitigations.
• Mentor junior team members and share knowledge.
• Create architecture policies aligning with cybersecurity best practices.
• Draft cybersecurity strategies to comply with regulations (CMMC, NIST).
• Design security for monitoring, logging, IAM, encryption, data protection.
• Oversee compensating controls for vulnerability management.
• Orchestrate scalable, resilient containerized microservices.

Skills

Cloud security

Cloud architecture

Azure

AWS

GCP

Cybersecurity

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

CDM Smith seeks a Senior Security Architect to lead secure cloud architecture across public, private and hybrid environments. You will guide secure deployments, review plans with EA, and mentor teams to strengthen cloud security posture.

This role emphasizes cyber risk mitigation and governance across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, with opportunities to influence enterprise security strategy. The position requires strong cloud security expertise, collaboration with security leadership, and the ability to