Senior Cloud Security Architect: Zero Trust & Multi-Cloud

Zebra; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 123,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Zebra in Chicago is hiring a Senior Cloud Security Architect to design and implement security controls across multi‑cloud environments, protecting data, apps, and infrastructure. You’ll partner with Cloud Engineering and other teams to embed secure‑by‑design principles and standardized perimeter controls.

The role emphasizes risk articulation, Zero Trust patterns, and guidance on CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, and KSPM. Requires 5+ years in cloud security and relevant degrees.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, CS, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in information security, cloud engineering, cloud security architecture, network security, or infrastructure security.
• Direct experience partnering with Cloud Engineering, Network, Identity, Security Operations, and application teams to assess risk and recommend secure design patterns.
• Strong understanding of public cloud security concepts across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Partner with internal teams to incorporate security requirements into cloud architecture, modernization, application onboarding, access enablement, and vendor integration efforts.
• Provide security architecture review and design recommendations for public cloud platforms, internet‑facing applications, APIs, workloads, and data flows to improve control consistency and reduce unmanaged exposure.
• Assess cloud designs against enterprise security standards, regulatory expectations, and industry frameworks; document architecture findings, risk decisions, exception rationale, and recommended remediation options.
• Advise on standardized perimeter controls, Zero Trust access patterns, private access, segmentation, secure connectivity, and identity-based access approaches for users, workloads, applications, and third parties.
• Review cloud configuration, IAM, network routing, encryption, logging, monitoring, and telemetry requirements; identify gaps and coordinate practical next steps with accountable technology owners.
• Support adoption and consistent use of cloud‑native and enterprise security capabilities, including CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, KSPM, WAF, IDS/IPS, secure web gateway, SASE, and ZTNA capabilities where applicable.
• Articulate cloud security risk, business impact, control tradeoffs, and remediation priorities to technical teams, management stakeholders, and security leadership.
• Maintain reusable cloud security guidance, decision records, control recommendations, status updates, escalation points, and next steps for cross‑functional delivery teams.
• Contribute to Security Architecture objectives by strengthening secure‑by‑design delivery, improving cloud control maturity, and enabling consistent architecture governance across cloud platforms.

Skills

Cloud security

Risk articulation

Cloud architecture

Zero Trust

NIST/CIS/CSA

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security, CS, Engineering, or Information Systems

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes security

CI/CD pipelines

CNAPP/CSPM

Job description

Zebra in Chicago is hiring a Senior Cloud Security Architect to design and implement security controls across multi‑cloud environments, protecting data, apps, and infrastructure. You’ll partner with Cloud Engineering and other teams to embed secure‑by‑design principles and standardized perimeter controls.

The role emphasizes risk articulation, Zero Trust patterns, and guidance on CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, and KSPM. Requires 5+ years in cloud security and relevant degrees.