Senior Cloud Security Architect (IaC & Hybrid Cloud)

CDM Smith; Sarasota (FL); On-site; USD 123,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead secure cloud infrastructure across public, private, and hybrid environments. This role focuses on risk reduction, architecture modernization, and cloud security governance in a fast-paced setting.

The ideal candidate combines deep cloud security expertise with strong leadership, mentoring, and collaboration skills to drive secure, scalable solutions aligned with business objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 5 years of related experience.
• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Responsibilities

• Architect and articulate a scalable and resilient vision for secure public, private and hybrid clouds.
• Advise our Cloud team and Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) on secure deployments and configurations.
• Review architecture plans and closely partner with our Enterprise Architecture (EA) group.
• Lead security architecture design with SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.
• Provide guidance and direction on secure design, build, testing and deployment across cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with security, architecture and engineering leadership to support business objectives.
• Identify and enforce enterprise standards to support secure, resilient and compliant solutions.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point of contact for problem resolution, including incident response.
• Identify risk-related issues and architect solutions to avoid potential security incidents and business impact.
• Mentor junior team members and share knowledge with technical and project team leads.
• Create architecture policies aligning with industry best practices for cybersecurity and resiliency.
• Draft cybersecurity strategies aligning with business objectives to comply with regulations.
• Design security for monitoring, logging, IAM, encryption, data protection, detection and preventive controls.
• Require technical leads and other subject matter experts to ensure configurations are aligned, adopted and implemented.
• Oversee compensating controls for vulnerability management mitigation in technical teams’ operational responsibilities.
• Orchestrate scalable, resilient and efficient containerized microservices.

Skills

IT, cloud, cybersecurity experience

Azure, AWS, GCP

Cybersecurity & Enterprise Architektur

Emerging cybersecurity technologies

Communication & stakeholder management

Analytical & problem-solving skills

Organizational skills

Strategic & tactical balance

Education

Bachelor's Degree

5 years of related experience

Equivalent additional directly related experience

Job description

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead secure cloud infrastructure across public, private, and hybrid environments. This role focuses on risk reduction, architecture modernization, and cloud security governance in a fast-paced setting.

The ideal candidate combines deep cloud security expertise with strong leadership, mentoring, and collaboration skills to drive secure, scalable solutions aligned with business objectives.