Senior Security Architect & Compliance Lead

Remote Jobs; United States; Hybrid; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401K

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Akamai is seeking a Security Architect Senior Lead to assess cloud, network, infrastructure, and application designs against security and compliance requirements, translating them into technical specifications, security blueprints, and engineering guardrails.

You will collaborate with engineering and InfoSec to investigate security risks, support compliance programs and audits, and push adoption of robust controls through AI and automation across distributed systems.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Security architecture design

Cloud security

Audits & compliance

Control frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Akamai is seeking a Security Architect Senior Lead to assess cloud, network, infrastructure, and application designs against security and compliance requirements, translating them into technical specifications, security blueprints, and engineering guardrails.

You will collaborate with engineering and InfoSec to investigate security risks, support compliance programs and audits, and push adoption of robust controls through AI and automation across distributed systems.