Senior Cloud Security Architect (Remote)

CDM Smith; Lake Charles (LA); Remote; USD 123,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead the architecture of public, private, and hybrid clouds, ensuring secure, cost-efficient solutions that align with cybersecurity strategy and business needs. The role demands deep knowledge of cloud security, IaC, and incident response, with the ability to guide both technical teams and leadership.

You will mentor teammates, shape enterprise standards, and collaborate with IT and application leaders to reduce risk while enabling rapid

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 & Cloud Security

Azure / AWS / GCP

Cybersecurity

Communication

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Equivalent experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead the architecture of public, private, and hybrid clouds, ensuring secure, cost-efficient solutions that align with cybersecurity strategy and business needs. The role demands deep knowledge of cloud security, IaC, and incident response, with the ability to guide both technical teams and leadership.

You will mentor teammates, shape enterprise standards, and collaborate with IT and application leaders to reduce risk while enabling rapid