Remote Senior Cloud Security Architect

CDM Smith; Orlando (FL); 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, ensuring secure, compliant, and cost-efficient solutions. The role demands deep cloud security knowledge and strong leadership to mentor the team and guide incident response.

You will report to security leadership and interact with IT and development leadership. This remote-friendly position requires coordinating across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS environments while aligning with business

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 5 years related experience.
• Equivalent additional directly related experience considered in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with secure cloud architectures across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.

Responsibilities

• Architect and articulate scalable, resilient vision for secure clouds.
• Lead security architecture design for SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.
• Provide guidance on secure design, build, testing and deployment.
• Collaborate with leadership to support business objectives.
• Enforce enterprise standards for secure, compliant solutions.
• Mentor junior team members and lead incident response efforts.
• Draft cybersecurity strategies aligned with regulations (CMMC, NIST).
• Oversee monitoring, IAM, encryption, data protection and logging.

Skills

Extensive IT, cloud and cybersecurity

Azure, AWS and GCP

Cybersecurity & Enterprise Architect

Staying current on cybersecurity tech

Communication & stakeholder management

Analytical & problem solving

Organizational skills & prioritization

Strategic & tactical balance in fast-P

Education

Bachelor's Degree

5 years of related experience

Equivalent experience in lieu of degree

Tools

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Gov Cloud deployments

Microsoft SC-100

SC-500

AZ-305

AB-100

AI-500

Job description

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead the architecture of public, private, and hybrid clouds, ensuring secure, compliant, and cost-efficient solutions. The role demands deep cloud security knowledge and strong leadership to mentor the team and guide incident response.

You will report to security leadership and interact with IT and development leadership. This remote-friendly position requires coordinating across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS environments while aligning with business