Senior Security Architect & Compliance Lead

Emploive; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K savings plan

PTO

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Senior Lead Security Architect to partner with engineering, product, and security teams on designing secure, compliant cloud and network architectures. You will translate requirements into technical blueprints, support audits, and drive control adoption across distributed systems.

The role emphasizes evaluating designs, guiding guardrails, and leveraging AI to enhance security controls within Akamai's global platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience assessing security in cloud, internet technologies, infrastructure, applications, and data governance.
• Expertise in PCI DSS requirements, control assessment, and audit support.
• Experience designing security architectures and control frameworks for distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Assess cloud, network, infrastructure, and application designs against security and compliance requirements.
• Translate requirements into technical specifications, security blueprints, and engineering guardrails.
• Support compliance programs, control assessments, and audits using Akamai's common control framework.
• Work with engineering and InfoSec to investigate security risks and define remediation.
• Improve adoption and monitoring of security controls through AI and automation.

Skills

Security architecture design

Cloud security

PCI DSS

Audit support

Control frameworks

Security risk assessment

Automation / AI in security

Information security

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Senior Lead Security Architect to partner with engineering, product, and security teams on designing secure, compliant cloud and network architectures. You will translate requirements into technical blueprints, support audits, and drive control adoption across distributed systems.

The role emphasizes evaluating designs, guiding guardrails, and leveraging AI to enhance security controls within Akamai's global platform.