Senior Cloud Security Architect (Remote)

CDM Smith; Boca Raton (FL); 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 drive security-focused design, governance and cross-functional collaboration with cloud teams and leadership.

You will mentor junior staff, align security with business objectives, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. The role emphasizes proactive risk management, incident response, and scalable deployment of secure cloud solutions.

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 (CMMC, NIST, etc.).
• 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/Cybersecurity experience

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Enterprise architecture

Security best practices

Communication & stakeholder management

Analytical problem-solving

Organization & prioritisation

Strategic vs tactical mindset

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 drive security-focused design, governance and cross-functional collaboration with cloud teams and leadership.

You will mentor junior staff, align security with business objectives, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. The role emphasizes proactive risk management, incident response, and scalable deployment of secure cloud solutions.