Cloud Security Architect
Listed on 2026-06-10
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer
WSP is one of the world’s leading professional services firms operating in over 50 countries and employs approximately 75,000 professionals, known as Visioneers. Together they pioneer solutions and deliver innovative projects in the transportation, infrastructure, environment, building, energy, water, and mining and metals sectors.
Position Summary
This role is a hands-on, senior individual contributor responsible for designing, building, and operating secure, scalable Azure platform capabilities, while enforcing enterprise guardrails and compliance requirements. The successful candidate will work in a consultative capacity, owning platform roadmaps and backlogs, responding to intake requests, and providing architectural guidance and sign-off. You will have a governance dotted line to the Corporate Security & Compliance team, ensuring alignment with enterprise security policy.
Main Responsibilities
Security Architecture Design
Design and maintain the security architecture for the Digital Services Azure platform across all regions, including network segmentation, Private Endpoint strategy, and zero-trust network posture.
Architect the controls that align with enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards.
Define security patterns for vendor application teams: authentication flows, secrets management, API security, data-at-rest and data-in-transit encryption standards.
Identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement across Azure environments.
Contribute to standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
Detection Engineering
Design and govern detection engineering.
Define the security telemetry strategy: what gets collected, where it’s stored, how long it’s retained, and how it aligns with regional data residency constraints (noting that security telemetry is centralised by design).
Governance & Compliance Architecture
Implement corporate security and compliance requirements within the Digital Services platform using policy-as-code (Azure Policy, custom initiatives) and automated evidence capture.
Design the compliance evidence architecture so that audit readiness is a continuous state.
Own security exception governance: assess exception requests, document risk acceptance, and ensure appropriate approval chains.
Contribute to architecture decision records (ADRs) for all security-impacting design decisions.
Cross-Team Security Standards
Define security architecture standards that apply horizontally across all Digital Services teams — platform engineering, vendor application development, and vendor Dev Ops.
Review and approve vendor security patterns and access models.
Work with the Development teams to embed security practices and controls.
Serve as security escalation point for the platform engineering team during incidents.
Required Experience & Skills
5 + years of experience, including experience specializing in information security roles.
Strong analytical skills with a keen eye for detail and accuracy.
Experience designing security architecture for Azure-hosted platforms.
Experience with Azure Landing Zones (CAF-aligned) / enterprise-scale reference architecture.
Proven ability to translate regulatory and compliance requirements into enforceable technical architecture.
Familiarity with zero-trust architecture principles applied to Azure deployments.
Knowledge and experience using Microsoft security platforms, other vendor security systems are highly desirable.
Knowledge about advanced security capabilities, including integrations with other systems.
Prior participation in architecture review or governance forums.
Strong written communication: you will author and review ADRs, security architecture documents, and pattern guides that vendor teams and corporate governance rely on.
If youdon’tmeet every qualification, we still encourage you to apply.
Preferred Experience
Experience working in a regulated SaaS environment with multi-region data residency requirements.
Hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code experience.
Experience working with third-party vendor development teams.
Skills / Competency / Other requirements
Excellent written and spoken English.
Ability to work independently with low-level supervision and…
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