Senior Cloud Security Architect (Remote)

CDM Smith; Huntsville (AL); Remote; USD 123,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

CDM Smith in the United States is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead the architecture of public, private, and hybrid clouds, ensuring secure, cost-efficient solutions.

The role requires deep knowledge of cloud security, IaC, and incident response, with mentorship to junior staff and collaboration across IT and development leadership. Travel may be required.

Join CDM Smith to shape cybersecurity posture and enable resilient cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• 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.
• Mentor junior team members and share knowledge with technical and project team leads.
• Draft cybersecurity strategies aligning with business objectives to comply with regulations (CMMC, NIST, etc.).
• Oversee compensating controls for vulnerability management mitigation in technical teams’ operational responsibilities.
• Orchestrate scalable, resilient and efficient containerized microservices.

Skills

IT & Cloud security

Azure/AWS/GCP

Cybersecurity

Communication skills

Analytics

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

CDM Smith in the United States is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead the architecture of public, private, and hybrid clouds, ensuring secure, cost-efficient solutions.

The role requires deep knowledge of cloud security, IaC, and incident response, with mentorship to junior staff and collaboration across IT and development leadership. Travel may be required.

Join CDM Smith to shape cybersecurity posture and enable resilient cloud deployments.