Security Architect

About the role

Arctiq is seeking a Security Architect to design, develop, and maintain robust security architectures that protect client systems, applications, networks, identities, and data. The role bridges strategic security planning with hands‑on technical execution, translating business, security, and compliance requirements into secure, scalable solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Design and document secure architectures for networks, cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), applications, and identity systems.
• Define and maintain security architecture standards, reference architectures, and design patterns.
• Review new projects, systems, and vendor solutions to assess security alignment and provide risk‑based recommendations.
• Lead threat‑modeling exercises for new applications, infrastructure changes, migrations, and major initiatives.
• Design identity security architectures, including governance, access management, privileged access controls, authentication strategies, and Zero Trust implementations.
• Evaluate and recommend security tooling such as SIEM, EDR, DLP, CASB, WAF, IAM/PAM and oversee integration.
• Partner with DevOps and Platform teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code (DevSecOps) practices.
• Support incident response and forensic activities by providing architectural context and remediation guidance.

Required profile

• Proven experience designing and implementing security architectures across cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Strong ability to translate business and compliance requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellent collaboration skills with engineering, IT, infrastructure, and business stakeholders.
• Experience leading threat‑modeling and risk‑assessment activities.

Required skills

• AWS, Azure, GCP
• Identity governance, access management, privileged access management (IAM/PAM)
• Active Directory, Entra ID
• Zero Trust architecture
• SIEM, EDR, DLP, CASB, WAF
• CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure‑as‑code, DevSecOps