Senior Security Architect
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About the Role
Acuative Middle East seeks a Senior Security Architect to define and advance cybersecurity architecture across enterprise, cloud, network, and application environments. The role leads secure design reviews, Zero Trust Architecture, and network segmentation initiatives.
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Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the enterprise cybersecurity architecture strategy, principles, standards, and reference architectures
- Lead security architecture reviews for infrastructure, cloud, network, and application projects
- Lead the development and implementation of the organization's Zero Trust Architecture strategy
- Design enterprise network segmentation and micro segmentation strategies
- Design secure cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI
- Translate business and regulatory requirements into technical security architecture requirements
- Provide expert guidance to engineering and project teams on secure architecture practices
- Monitor emerging cybersecurity threats, technologies, and industry trends
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline
- 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity
- At least 5 years in security architecture or solution architecture
- Proven experience designing secure enterprise, cloud, and hybrid environments
- Strong experience leading architecture reviews and enterprise security initiatives
- Experience working within large scale enterprise environments
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Job Summary
- The Senior Security Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and advancing the organization's cybersecurity architecture to ensure security is embedded across enterprise, cloud, network, and application environments.
- The role provides technical leadership in designing secure solutions, conducting architecture and design reviews, and driving strategic initiatives such as Zero Trust Architecture and network segmentation.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the enterprise cybersecurity architecture strategy, principles, standards, and reference architectures.
- Define security architecture requirements for infrastructure, applications, cloud services, and business solutions.
- Ensure security is integrated into all phases of the solution lifecycle using Security by Design principles.
- Develop architecture patterns, technical standards, and security baselines.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend secure architectural approaches.
- Provide technical leadership on enterprise security transformation initiatives.
Secure Design Reviews
- Lead security architecture reviews for infrastructure, cloud, network, and application projects.
- Conduct secure design assessments and identify architectural risks.
- Perform threat modeling and recommend appropriate security controls.
- Review solution designs for compliance with enterprise security standards and regulatory requirements.
- Provide technical recommendations to project teams to address identified security gaps.
- Review and approve security exceptions with appropriate compensating controls.
- Participate in architecture review boards and technical governance committees.
Zero Trust Architecture
- Lead the development and implementation of the organization's Zero Trust Architecture strategy.
- Design identity centric security models based on continuous verification and least privilege.
- Define Zero Trust principles for users, workloads, devices, applications, and data.
- Collaborate with IAM, Network, Endpoint, and Cloud teams to implement Zero Trust controls.
- Assess existing environments and develop Zero Trust transformation roadmaps.
- Ensure alignment with NIST SP 800 207 and industry best practices.
Network Segmentation
- Design enterprise network segmentation and micro segmentation strategies.
- Define trust zones and security boundaries across corporate, cloud, OT, and DMZ environments.
- Review firewall architectures and segmentation policies.
- Support implementation of Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) security controls.
- Recommend improvements to reduce attack surface and limit lateral movement.
- Validate segmentation effectiveness through architecture reviews and security assessments.
Cloud & Infrastructure Security
- Design secure cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Define secure hybrid cloud and multi cloud architectures.
- Develop standards for container, Kubernetes, API, and serverless security.
- Review infrastructure as code (IaC) security controls.
- Support DevSecOps initiatives by embedding security into CI/CD pipelines.
Risk & Governance
- Translate business and regulatory requirements into technical security architecture requirements.
- Support enterprise risk assessments from an architectural perspective.
- Develop and maintain security architecture standards, technical policies, and implementation guidelines.
- Provide technical support during security audits and compliance assessments.
- Review technology risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
Technical Leadership
- Provide expert guidance to engineering and project teams on secure architecture practices.
- Mentor security engineers and junior architects.
- Represent cybersecurity within enterprise architecture forums.
- Participate in technology evaluations and security due diligence.
- Promote architecture consistency across business units and technology domains.
Continuous Improvement
- Monitor emerging cybersecurity threats, technologies, and industry trends.
- Continuously improve enterprise security architecture frameworks and standards.
- Support cybersecurity maturity initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to automate security controls and architecture governance.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, including at least 5 years in security architecture or solution architecture.
- Proven experience designing secure enterprise, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Strong experience leading architecture reviews and enterprise security initiatives.
- Experience working within large scale enterprise environments.
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