Senior Cloud Security Architect

Responsibilities

The architect will work with product owners, enterprise architecture, engineering, and security teams to protect sensitive data, strengthen identity and access controls, secure cloud environments, and support compliance with enterprise policies and industry standards. The role requires strong AWS expertise and the ability to lead multiple security initiatives across IaaS, SaaS, and internally developed applications.

Requirements

• Extensive experience with security architecture and threat modeling for complex enterprise applications
• Strong knowledge of STRIDE, attack trees, abuse cases, data flow analysis, and trust boundary analysis
• Hands-on experience evaluating security risks in AI, machine learning, and agentic AI applications
• Advanced AWS knowledge across IAM, networking, compute, storage, RDS, messaging, serverless, ECS/EKS, CI/CD, and AI/ML services
• Strong understanding of application security, API security, IAM, authentication, authorization, encryption, key management, and data protection
• Experience translating identified threats into practical security controls and remediation recommendations
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, pipeline security, container security, infrastructure security, SIEM, CSPM, and CWPP solutions
• Familiarity with security frameworks and standards such as NIST, OWASP, CIS, FedRAMP, ISO, and SOX
• Experience with resilient, highly available, API-driven, stateless, and integrated cloud or SaaS environments
• Ability to lead multiple initiatives and communicate effectively with technical and business stakeholders

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field
• Preferred certifications: CISSP, CCSP, AWS Professional or Specialty certifications, or equivalent credentials

Location: Birmingham, AL; Columbia, SC; Knoxville, TN; or Lafayette, LA. Type: Full-time. Ref: #404-IT Pittsburgh.