Senior Cloud Security Architect

Senior Cloud Security Architect

Location: Milpitas, CA
Work Model: Onsite 4 days/week; fairly flexible when needed
Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire

Top Skills

1. Azure – Primary; AWS – close second; Google Cloud Platform – Nice to Have
2. Strong understanding of building and securing cloud environments
3. Terraform
4. Wiz – Nice to Have

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Security Architect to define and own security architecture for a multi-cloud environment.

The role will participate in the Architecture Review Board (STARC), review the Vortex AI platform, and support security architecture reviews for the Atlas ERP platform (RISE with SAP S/4HANA).

The candidate will establish cloud security reference architectures, guardrails, and secure-by-design patterns across engineering, manufacturing, and corporate workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop cloud security reference architectures
• Establish security guardrails and secure-by-design patterns
• Work across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform environments
• Participate in architecture and security reviews
• Support review of AI and ERP platforms
• Use Wiz for cloud posture, identity, and workload visibility
• Apply hands-on cloud infrastructure security expertise
• Support cloud identity and data protection
• Address container and platform security
• Partner with cloud engineering, application, and ERP teams
• Translate security risks into practical and automatable controls
• Use Terraform for infrastructure/security automation