Senior Security Architect: Enterprise & Cloud Security

Mission Pet Health; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mission Pet Health is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead design and governance of security architecture across the organization’s technology environment. You will translate business risk into scalable, secure designs and drive DevSecOps initiatives across a large enterprise.

The role requires 5-7+ years in cybersecurity or security architecture, with hands-on experience securing enterprise environments and a strong ability to communicate complex concepts to diverse stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in enterprise security architecture and layered control design.
• Strong hands-on experience architecting and securing enterprise technology environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, and maintain enterprise security architecture standards across network, cloud, hybrid, and application environments.
• Translate leadership intent and business priorities into security architecture direction, standards, and scalable designs.
• Lead the architectural design of layered security controls across enterprise environments.
• Architect and guide secure configurations for enterprise technology platforms, including identity, network, and workload controls.
• Partner with infrastructure and engineering teams to review and approve designs for new systems, ensuring security is embedded by design.
• Promote source control, peer review, automation, policy as code, and traceable change management across security architecture and engineering workflows.
• Identify dependencies across systems, teams, processes, and documentation.
• Develop reference architectures, reusable design patterns, and technical standards that scale across the enterprise.
• Evaluate and recommend security technologies and architectural changes to address emerging threats and evolving business needs.
• Conduct architecture and design reviews for major projects, identifying risks and recommending mitigations.
• Collaborate with the security operations team to ensure architectural decisions support effective detection, monitoring, and response.
• Provide technical guidance on secure technology adoption, migration, and integration strategies.
• Support risk assessments, threat modeling, and security control mapping against industry frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS).
• Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point for complex network and cloud security design questions.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineering and security team members.

Skills

Security architecture

DevSecOps

Threat modeling

Communication

Documentation

Risk-based decision making

Leadership

Architectural reviews

Git workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IT

CISSP/SABSA or security architecture cert

Cloud security cert (Azure/AWS)

Tools

Git

Cloud security tooling

Job description

Mission Pet Health is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead design and governance of security architecture across the organization’s technology environment. You will translate business risk into scalable, secure designs and drive DevSecOps initiatives across a large enterprise.

The role requires 5-7+ years in cybersecurity or security architecture, with hands-on experience securing enterprise environments and a strong ability to communicate complex concepts to diverse stakeholders.