Senior Cyber Security Architect

Job Responsibilities

• Serves as an expert contributor in the development and implementation of cybersecurity architectures, patterns, strategies, and solutions supporting emerging technology and AI-enabled cybersecurity capabilities.
• Evaluates opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence, agentic AI, automation, orchestration, analytics, and other emerging technologies to enhance cybersecurity capabilities and operating models.
• Develops current-state, transitional, and future-state cybersecurity architectures that integrate capabilities across multiple cybersecurity domains and technology platforms.
• Assesses opportunities to improve interoperability and automation across areas including:
  • Vulnerability and Exposure Management
  • Configuration and Security Posture Management
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Endpoint Protection and Detection
  • Security Operations
  • Asset and Technology Inventory
  • Threat Detection and Response
  • Security Analytics and Automation
• Explores how AI agents and autonomous or semi-autonomous capabilities can securely interact with cybersecurity platforms, enterprise systems, data, and workflows while maintaining appropriate security controls, governance, and human oversight.
• Identifies opportunities to reduce fragmented security processes through technology integration, consolidation, automation, and intelligent orchestration.
• Evaluates emerging cybersecurity technologies, platforms, tools, and architectural approaches for potential applicability within the enterprise.
• Develops reference architectures, architecture patterns, capability models, technical recommendations, and roadmaps supporting future cybersecurity capabilities.
• Partners with cybersecurity domain architects, engineering teams, security operations, technology teams, and other stakeholders to evaluate cross-domain architecture requirements and integration opportunities.
• Assesses architectural considerations associated with machine identities, AI agents, privileged access, authentication, authorization, data access, trust boundaries, and automated actions.
• Evaluates security implications associated with integrating AI capabilities into cybersecurity technologies and operational workflows.
• Helps establish architectural principles and guardrails for the responsible and secure adoption of emerging AI-enabled cybersecurity capabilities.
• Identifies dependencies, architectural gaps, integration challenges, technical risks, and opportunities associated with future-state cybersecurity architectures.
• Develops technical assessments, architecture documentation, recommendations, and executive-level presentations communicating complex concepts to both technical and business stakeholders.
• Proactively monitors technology developments and industry trends that may materially change cybersecurity architecture, operating models, or defensive capabilities.
• Works effectively in an environment involving emerging technologies, ambiguity, experimentation, and rapidly changing technical capabilities.

Education
Minimum

• B.S. degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or another relevant technical field.

Desired

• M.S., M.B.A., or advanced technical degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, or equivalent field.

License/Certification Desired

One or more relevant cybersecurity or technology certifications preferred, such as:

• • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
  • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
  • Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
  • Cloud or security architecture certifications
  • Vendor-specific security or AI certifications
  • Other equivalent cybersecurity, architecture, cloud, or emerging technology certifications

Experience Minimum

• Minimum of 6 years of combined cybersecurity, information technology, architecture, engineering, or related technical experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing, evaluating, or implementing enterprise cybersecurity architectures and solutions.
• Experience working across multiple cybersecurity technology domains rather than exclusively within a single security discipline.
• Experience developing architecture patterns, technical strategies, integration approaches, or future-state technology designs.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex technologies and translate technical capabilities into practical enterprise use cases.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary technical teams including architects, engineers, cybersecurity operations, developers, infrastructure teams, and technology vendors.

Experience Desired

Experience or demonstrated knowledge in the following areas is highly desirable:

• Generative and agentic AI: LLMs, AI agent architectures, and agent-to-system and machine-to-machine interactions
• AI security and governance: secure adoption of emerging AI capabilities
• Enterprise security architecture: reference architectures, design patterns, and defense-in-depth
• Zero Trust architecture: covering network, platform, and identity
• Security platform strategy: integration, technology rationalization and consolidation, capability modeling, and roadmapping
• Vulnerability and exposure management: attack surface management, asset discovery and inventory, and risk prioritization
• Security configuration and posture management: control assessment and configuration baselines
• Identity and access management: authentication, authorization, identity governance, and privileged access management
• Non-human identity management: machine, workload, and AI agent identities
• Security operations and detection: endpoint protection, EDR/XDR, SIEM/SOAR, telemetry and analytics, threat detection and response, and automated orchestration
  Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Technical Competencies
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity architecture, enterprise security technologies, and emerging trends, including how AI and automation are changing architectures and operating models.
• Ability to look past individual products and evaluate security as an integrated ecosystem, including the dependencies across identity, endpoints, infrastructure, applications, data, vulnerability management, security operations, and AI.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work through complex and ambiguous technical problems.
• Ability to research and assess emerging technologies on your own, including where no established enterprise patterns exist yet.
• Ability to turn emerging concepts into practical architecture patterns, use cases, recommendations, and implementation guidance.
• Sound judgment in telling apart promising capabilities from those not yet mature, secure, or ready for enterprise use.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including explaining complex security and AI concepts to both technical teams and executives.
• Ability to influence technical direction and collaborate across organizational boundaries.
• Ability to work well in a fast-moving, collaborative environment where requirements change.
• Strong technical curiosity and a willingness to challenge traditional approaches while keeping to sound security, risk, and governance principles.

Salary Range

$153,520.00 - $242,400.00 USD (Salary)

• Please note that the salary information provided herein is base pay only (gross); it does not include other forms of compensation which may or may not apply to this specific position, namely, performance-based bonuses, benefits-related payments, or other general incentives - none of which are guaranteed, may be subject to specific eligibility requirements, and are wholly within the discretion of Astreya to remit.
• Further, the salary information noted above is a range that consists of a minimum and maximum rate of pay for this specific position. Where an applicant or employee is placed on this range will depend and be contingent on objective, documented work-related considerations like education, experience, certifications, licenses, preferred qualifications, among other factors.

Astreya offers comprehensive benefits to all Regular, Full-Time Employees, including:

• Medical provided through UHC (PPO, HSA, Surest options) / Medical provided through Kaiser (HMO option only) for California employees only

• Dental provided through UHC

• Nationwide Vision provided by UHC

• Flexible Spending Account for Health & Dependent Care

• Pre-Tax Account for Commuter Benefit/Parking & Transit (location-specific)

• Continuing Education and Professional Development via various integrated platforms, e.g. Udemy and Coursera

• Corporate Wellness Program provided by Goomi Group

• Employee Assistance Program

• Wellness Days

  401k Plan

• Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance

• Short Term & Long Term Disability

• Critical Illness, Critical Hospital, and Voluntary Accident Insurance

• Tuition Reimbursement (available 6 months after start date, capped)

• Paid Time Off (accrued and prorated, maximum of 120 hours annually)

• Paid Holidays

• Any other statutory leaves, paid time, or other ancillary benefits required under state and federal law