Cloud Security Architect

Location: Sterling

# Cloud Security Architect Apply
** Job#: 3053337
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* Job Description:

** Cloud Security Architect
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* Location:

** Sterling, Virginia (Onsite)

Role Overview An opportunity is available for a Cloud Security Architect to join as a senior practitioner on a cloud security team. This role reports to director-level leadership and is responsible for shaping policy, leading architectural reviews, driving AI security governance, and providing direct technical guidance to product and engineering teams across all public cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities
* Act as a Cloud Security Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Infosec department.
* Reduce cloud security risk, develop solutions, and lead implementations.
* Partner with product teams to design secure network and serverless architectures.
* Provide IAM Policy guidance to enable product teams to implement least privilege access.
* Review cloud architecture and AI/ML workflows to advise development teams on security design principles.
* Define and enforce security controls for AI/ML pipelines, including model access governance and data handling.
* Create design artifacts to enable members of the Cloud Security team to implement solutions.
* Engage with Azure, GCP, and AWS account teams and technical advisors to influence roadmaps.
* Create and maintain documentation for cloud security implementations, processes, and standards.
* Collaborate with senior management to assess near- and long-term cloud security needs.
* Participate in a tier 4 SME on-call rotation.
* Mentor junior members of the team.
* Stay current with the latest cloud and AI threat mitigation tools and techniques.

Required Qualifications
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* Education:

** A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience is required.
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* Experience:

** This role requires 6+ years in cloud security architecture roles. Candidates should have a strong understanding of cloud-based infrastructure components and the security risks in a decentralized and hybrid environment. A broad understanding of information security, compliance risk, and a core understanding of IP Networking are necessary. The role also requires the demonstrated ability to build and own security automation end-to-end.
** Technical

Skills:

** Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, Node.js, Golang, bash, etc.) is needed. Hands-on experience is required with cloud native security tools (Azure Defender for Cloud, GCP Security Command Center, AWS Guard Duty), command line interfaces (Bash, Powershell, AWS-CLI), security administration in Azure/GCP/AWS, perimeter security (WAF, CDN), cloud network engineering (CIDR, routing, VPN), zero trust architecture (Hashi Corp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault), SIEM/logging platforms (Splunk, Chronicle), Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible), Docker, Kubernetes, developing and securing serverless applications, and Git Hub Security.

Familiarity with security frameworks and benchmarks (NIST CSF, CIS Benchmarks, SOC
2) is also required.

Preferred Qualifications
* Experience securing AI/ML workloads, including LLM API governance, training data access controls, and RAG pipeline security.
* Azure

Certifications:

Azure Fundamentals, Solutions Architect.
* GCP

Certifications:

Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Security Engineer.
* AWS

Certifications:

AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Security Specialty.
* Security Engineer

Certifications:

CISSP, CompTIA Security+.
* Previous

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