Senior Cloud Security Architect – AWS & Infra Security

LIO Insurance; Conshohocken (Montgomery County); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Flexible work options

Job summary

The Principal Cloud Security Architect at LIO Insurance leads the design and implementation of secure AWS infrastructure, data protection, and AI workload security. This hands-on, IC role sets standards, guides engineering teams, and partners with the CISO and GRC teams to support regulatory examinations.

You will shape multi-year cloud security strategy, drive automation, and ensure resilient, cost-aware solutions across accounts and services, while mentoring engineers and documenting decisions.

Qualifications

• Deep AWS architecture and engineering experience across networking, IAM, resilience, logging, and security.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code and automation (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK) and scripting (Python/PowerShell/Bash).
• Security engineering across identity, access control, monitoring, incident response, and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience operating production services with defined service expectations and incident follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Own AWS infrastructure architecture, including account structure, networking, identity, compute, storage, connectivity, and environment separation.
• Establish reusable infrastructure patterns and guardrails with infrastructure as code, version control, and automated deployment checks.
• Design for availability, recovery, performance, and cost; make practical tradeoffs based on workload and business needs.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture on standards and design reviews, translating requirements into secure cloud infrastructure.

Skills

AWS architecture

Infrastructure as code

Security engineering

Identity and access

Cloud security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

Python

Job description

The Principal Cloud Security Architect at LIO Insurance leads the design and implementation of secure AWS infrastructure, data protection, and AI workload security. This hands-on, IC role sets standards, guides engineering teams, and partners with the CISO and GRC teams to support regulatory examinations.

You will shape multi-year cloud security strategy, drive automation, and ensure resilient, cost-aware solutions across accounts and services, while mentoring engineers and documenting decisions.