Senior Cloud Security Architect: Hybrid Guardrails & AI

PlanIT Group, LLC; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

PlanIT Group, LLC seeks a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to drive security strategy across a massive hybrid ecosystem. You will implement automated guardrails, protect assets and identity, and enable proactive threat detection across private data centers and multi-cloud tenants.

Role involves building SIEM/DZ signals, SOAR playbooks, and scalable automation to reduce manual security operations and friction while supporting PCI/SOC2 continuous compliance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a technical Cybersecurity Engineering role, with 4+ years in large-scale cloud or hybrid environments.
• Portfolio of AI/ML applied to security or operational scaling problems.
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps, treating security configurations as code.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated compliance assessments (CIS, NIST) across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Architect and secure asset data across hybrid infrastructure and cloud storage.
• Develop and integrate Identity Fabric signals with fraud teams to detect/mob malicious activity.
• Build secure connectivity between on-prem and multi-cloud environments with policy enforcement.
• Create SOAR playbooks for auto-remediation of cloud workloads and on-prem VMs.
• Support Purple Team exercises and tooling (EDR, WAF, DLP) for efficacy across tenants.
• Establish guardrails for AI models and Databricks pipelines to mitigate data poisoning and AI threats.
• Lead hyper-automation of security operations and cross-functional workflow integration.
• Demonstrate secure, scalable automation practices and governance across retail/enterprise environments.

Skills

Cloud security

Multi-cloud

Terraform

Kubernetes

OAuth SAML

CIAM

PySpark

AI security

APIs

SOAR

EDR

Purple Team

Automation

Governance

Education

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or Information Security

Tools

Databricks

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Kubernetes

GitOps

Job description

PlanIT Group, LLC seeks a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to drive security strategy across a massive hybrid ecosystem. You will implement automated guardrails, protect assets and identity, and enable proactive threat detection across private data centers and multi-cloud tenants.

Role involves building SIEM/DZ signals, SOAR playbooks, and scalable automation to reduce manual security operations and friction while supporting PCI/SOC2 continuous compliance.