Senior Cloud Security & Compliance Architect

Qcells North America; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Qcells North America is seeking a hands-on Senior Security and Compliance Engineer to lead cloud security, governance, risk, and compliance across the organization. The role focuses on monitoring threats, incident response, risk remediation, and maintaining security technologies with alignment to internal policies and industry standards.

This position is based in Irvine, CA; San Francisco, CA; or Teaneck, NJ, with in-office schedule at the manager’s discretion.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information security, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience, with 5+ years in cybersecurity, cloud security, security operations, governance, risk, compliance, or a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security concepts such as IAM, security groups, VPC, encryption (at‑rest and in‑transit), and cloud monitoring.
• Strong understanding of compliance frameworks and audit practices, including FFIEC, SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, control testing, evidence collection, and remediation tracking.
• Experience with incident response, vulnerability remediation, risk assessments, compliance reviews, logging, alerting, forensic investigation, and executive reporting in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the information security and compliance strategy, roadmap, policies, standards, and control framework.
• Lead and support continuous improvement projects to deploy, consolidate, enhance, and/or secure enterprise IT systems and services.
• Lead security and compliance operations, including threat detection, incident response, vulnerability remediation, forensics coordination, control monitoring, and compliance reporting.
• Ensure proper back up and disaster recovery are in place and proactively monitored to achieve SLAs for RPO and RTO.
• Ensure alignment with cybersecurity, privacy, technology control, and audit requirements, including FFIEC, SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other applicable obligations.

Skills

Cloud security

Incident response

Governance & compliance

Security operations

Threat monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in information security, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

SIEM

Cloud monitoring

Job description

Qcells North America is seeking a hands-on Senior Security and Compliance Engineer to lead cloud security, governance, risk, and compliance across the organization. The role focuses on monitoring threats, incident response, risk remediation, and maintaining security technologies with alignment to internal policies and industry standards.

This position is based in Irvine, CA; San Francisco, CA; or Teaneck, NJ, with in-office schedule at the manager’s discretion.