Sr. Cloud Cybersecurity Architect

Flint Hills Resources; Lisle (IL); On-site; USD 175,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Koch is seeking an accomplished Cloud Security Architect to lead security for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The role focuses on secure-by-design cloud architectures, identity governance, and integrated security controls across pipelines and deployments.

You will partner with engineering teams to implement Zero Trust, threat modeling, and security patterns, ensuring scalable protection while meeting regulatory demands and business risk tolerance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cybersecurity with cloud focus
• Experience securing IaaS and PaaS in hybrid/multi-cloud
• Hands-on with IaC and automated deployments
• Strong knowledge of IAM and Zero Trust
• Threat modeling and secure design with DevSecOps
• Ability to translate regulatory requirements into scalable security patterns

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve cloud security architectures and guardrails
• Maintain security standards for cloud-native services and serverless workloads
• Embed security into CI/CD pipelines and platform capabilities
• Provide architectural guidance and threat modeling for teams
• Design identity and access architectures with least-privilege
• Collaborate with Security Operations for detection, response and recovery
• Advise on security trade-offs and best practices
• Monitor evolving cloud security threats and update guidance

Skills

Cloud security

IAM

Zero Trust

DevSecOps

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

Our Team

Molex Cybersecurity Operations team plays a pivotal role in safeguarding the organization’s complex global manufacturing ecosystem. In an environment where compliance with a myriad of international laws, industry standards, and regulatory requirements is non-negotiable, the team proactively develops, enhances, and operates robust cybersecurity programs designed to fortify the company’s overall security posture.

By swiftly responding to cybersecurity incidents and collaborating seamlessly with IT and digital teams worldwide, the team ensures that both preventative and detective measures evolve continuously to counter ever-emerging threats. This role also works in close partnership with Koch Security Operations, focusing upstream on security architecture, design, and enablement — critical domains that help to systematically reduce risk and prevent incidents before they occur, ensuring uninterrupted operations and protecting sensitive data across all global sites.

What You Will Do

• Define, evolve and evangelize cloud security architectures, reference designs, and guardrails that enable secure-by-design practices across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
• Establish and maintain security standards and architectural patterns for cloud-native services, containerized workloads, serverless architectures, and identity-driven access models
• Embed security into Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and platform capabilities to enable automated, scalable security controls
• Partner with cloud platform, application, and development teams to provide architectural guidance, threat modeling, and design reviews aligned with Zero Trust principles
• Design and guide implementation of identity and access architectures, including IAM, least-privilege access, and continuous validation
• Collaborate with Security Operations and Incident Response teams to ensure architectural decisions support effective detection, response, and recovery
• Advise architects and engineering teams on cloud security trade offs, patterns, and best practices aligned with business risk tolerance
• Monitor evolving cloud security threats, architectures, and industry trends to continuously improve standards and architectural guidance

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 8+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with significant experience designing and securing cloud environments
• Strong experience securing IaaS and PaaS platforms in hybrid or multi-cloud environments
• Experience designing security controls that scale across multiple accounts.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, including containers, microservices, and serverless workloads
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and embedding security controls into automated deployments
• Strong knowledge of Identity and Access Management concepts and Zero Trust principles
• Experience partnering with development and platform teams on secure design, threat modeling, and DevSecOps practices

What Will Put You Ahead

• Hands-on experience securing serverless, containerized, and API-driven workloads at scale
• Direct experience supporting aerospace and defense or defense-adjacent workloads, including securing hybrid enclaves for Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)
• Demonstrated ability to translate compliance and regulatory requirements into scalable architectural patterns, automated controls, and guardrails rather than manual processes
• Strong understanding of identity-first and Zero Trust architectures in environments with elevated regulatory and audit expectations
• Proven ability to influence secure design decisions across teams without relying on enforcement or gatekeeping
• Experience partnering with engineering, platform, and compliance teams to balance delivery velocity with regulatory obligations
• Experience designing and operating cloud security architectures in regulated environments, including practical application of CMMC and FedRAMP requirements within enterprise and hybrid cloud environments

For this role, we anticipate paying $175,000 - $205,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.

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