Cybersecurity Operations Architect

The Cybersecurity Operations Architect provides technical engagement and architectural insight for Vertex's cybersecurity operations program, including AI‑augmented detection, response, operations, and threat intelligence capabilities.

• Partner closely with Sec Ops, engineering, architecture, IT, legal, privacy, and other stakeholders to proactively strengthen operational resilience.
• Drive key areas of cybersecurity operations architecture and strategy, conduct and evaluate security architecture reviews across the operations stack.
• Influence platform and tooling decisions and serve as a trusted advisor on complex operational and AI‑related security risks.
• Design resilient defense, detection, and response architectures, leveraging AI tooling to improve workflows and supplement security engineer capabilities.
• Lead the architectural design and implementation of cutting‑edge defense and detection engineering strategies, including log ingestion pipelines, protection configurations, correlation logic, and alerting frameworks across Cloud, Infrastructure, and SaaS security platforms.
• Deliver continuous improvements for incident response, digital forensics, threat hunting, and other security operations capabilities, with a focus on systemic operational improvement.
• Improve capabilities for AI‑augmented security operations, including automated triage, behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, and AI‑driven enrichment and response functions.
• Define and implement AI Security Operations pipelines and workflows, including data handling, model access, and inference pipeline monitoring; collaborate on threat modeling for AI‑augmented operations.
• Serve as a senior advisor to security and engineering leadership on operational risk, architectural trade‑offs, and technology investment decisions.
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to cybersecurity operations engineers and analysts; serve as an escalation point for complex security operations and incident response decisions.

• 5+ years of experience in the security operations domain, including designing and implementing security operations architectures across Cloud, Infrastructure, and SaaS security capabilities.
• 5+ years of experience implementing and operating security platforms across multi‑cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI).
• 5+ years of experience with detection engineering, log management, and security automation capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience conducting security architecture reviews for operational platforms, integrations, and tooling.
• 2+ years of demonstrable experience with AI development and tooling and its application to security operations workflows (portfolio or Git Hub profile encouraged).
• Strong self‑starter with curiosity and interest in delivering on cutting‑edge capabilities.
• Experience defining and implementing AI Security Operations pipelines and workflows, including data handling, model access, and inference pipeline monitoring.

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Assurance, Computer Science, or a related field; equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience accepted in lieu of a formal degree.
• Experience with AI threat modeling for security operations, including misuse, data leakage, adversarial manipulation, and supply‑chain exposure scenarios.
• Track record of mentoring cybersecurity operations engineers and analysts and fostering strong cross‑functional collaboration.

Vertex is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.