Senior Cloud Security Architect — Secure, Scalable Cloud Design

CDM Smith; Mobile (AL); On-site; USD 123,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith in the United States is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead the architecture of public, private and hybrid clouds, designing secure infrastructure and applications that align with business and cybersecurity strategies in a fast-paced environment.

You will mentor junior staff, partner with security leadership and enterprise architecture teams, and ensure compliant, cost-efficient cloud solutions across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS deployments.

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

Cloud platforms

Cybersecurity EA

Continuous learning

Communication

Analytical thinking

Organization

Strategic prioritization

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, designing secure infrastructure and applications that align with business and cybersecurity strategies in a fast-paced environment.

You will mentor junior staff, partner with security leadership and enterprise architecture teams, and ensure compliant, cost-efficient cloud solutions across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS deployments.