Cybersecurity Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design and evaluate security architectures for cloud, infrastructure, application, identity, network, and data environments.

• Create and sustain threat models that identify attack surfaces, security risks, and potential mitigations.

• Engage in architecture and design reviews, offering security guidance to project and engineering teams.

• Contribute to the cybersecurity architecture roadmap and assess emerging technologies.

• Act as a subject matter expert in security architecture for engineering, infrastructure, and product teams.

• Advocate for zero-trust, least-privilege, and defense-in-depth strategies.

• Mentor engineers and technical teams on secure design methodologies.

• Convert HIPAA, HITRUST, and NIST CSF requirements into technical architecture specifications and control mappings.

• Collaborate with Legal, Privacy, Compliance, and GRC teams.

• Perform risk assessments and create architecture recommendations, remediation strategies, and mitigation plans.

• Serve as a liaison between cybersecurity, infrastructure, application development, and business stakeholders.

• Offer security architecture consultation for technology initiatives, projects, and third-party integrations.

• Assist with customer security assessments and third-party due diligence.

• Partner with cybersecurity analysts, engineers, and architects to deploy security controls across enterprise systems, cloud platforms, and applications.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

• 5 to 8 years of comprehensive information security experience.

• At least 2 years of experience in a cybersecurity or security architecture capacity.

• Experience in designing and securing cloud, application, infrastructure, and data environments.

• Proven experience in conducting threat modeling, architectural reviews, and security risk assessments.

• Familiarity with regulated environments and supporting HIPAA, HITRUST, and NIST CSF compliance requirements.

• Understanding of security architecture design and review methodologies.

• Knowledge of threat modeling, attack surface analysis, and risk assessment techniques.

• Experience with cloud security architecture in AWS and Azure.

• Familiarity with secure application, infrastructure, network, identity, and data architecture principles.

• Knowledge of Zero Trust, least privilege, and defense-in-depth strategies.

• Understanding of HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST CSF, and healthcare security regulations.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

• Capability to translate technical security requirements into business-oriented recommendations.

• Ability to influence engineering teams and mentor technical personnel.

• Experience in collaborating across cybersecurity, engineering, privacy, compliance, legal, and business sectors.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Must possess curiosity and openness to innovation, including AI.

• Preferred certifications include CISSP, CCSP, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500), or equivalent cloud security or architecture certification.

• Must be prepared to travel and work onsite at client, temporary, or corporate office locations as business needs dictate.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, paid time off, retirement, and well-being programs.

• Investment in professional development.

• Each associate will receive a professional certification relevant to their field.

• Tuition reimbursement available.

• Quarterly and annual incentive programs for all employees who exceed expectations.

• Remote work arrangement provided.