HPC Security Solutions Architect

Title: HPC Security Solutions Architect
Location: Dallas, TX (Hybrid and Relocation Assistance Provided)
Duration: Permanent Direct Hire
Compensation: $200K-$325K Base Salary, plus Bonus
Work Requirements: , Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

HPC Security Solutions Architect

• As an HPC Security Solutions Architect, you will design and integrate end-to-end security architectures that safeguard HPC, AI/ML, and large-scale data-intensive workloads. You will act as a trusted advisor to customers, guiding them across the entire security lifecycle from requirements discovery and architecture design, through proof-of-concept and deployment, to operational hardening, identity management, and ongoing optimization.
• This role blends infrastructure security, identity and access management (IAM), and DevSecOps practices. You will ensure that HPC environments are secure by design covering compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes, and orchestration layers while also embedding controls into CI/CD pipelines and enabling compliance at scale.
• You will work directly with customers, but also collaborate closely with product, engineering, and security teams, turning real-world insights into reference architectures, reusable security patterns, and platform roadmap enhancements.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary security and IAM subject matter expert (SME) for customers adopting HPC platforms.
• Partner with customers to define security, identity, and compliance requirements, aligning them with workload performance and scale needs.
• Design and document comprehensive security architectures, including identity federation, SSO, RBAC, multi-tenancy controls, and policy enforcement.
• Implement Zero Trust principles by advising on strong authentication, encryption, workload isolation, and network segmentation.
• Embed and optimize AppSec tooling (SAST, SCA, DAST) into CI/CD pipelines to detect risks early and accelerate secure adoption.
• Help customers establish and manage IAM frameworks, including directory integration, identity lifecycle management, privileged access management, and secrets management.
• Lead proof-of-concept security engagements, validating policy enforcement, workload isolation, and compliance adherence in HPC workloads.
• Provide technical guidance on container and Kubernetes security, including admission controllers, runtime security, and OPA/Gatekeeper policies.
• Build automation for secure infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, or Python/Go-based tooling.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures, blueprints, and playbooks for HPC security and IAM best practices.
• Conduct security and identity reviews of customer environments, recommending enhancements for resilience, compliance, and cost-effectiveness.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to integrate customer-driven security requirements into platform features and roadmaps.
• Stay current with HPC security, IAM, and compliance trends (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2) and advise customers on long-term adoption strategies.
• Represent the organization at customer workshops, security assessments, and industry forums.

Required Skills:

• Proven experience as a Security Solutions Architect, IAM Architect, or Security Engineer in HPC, cloud, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in: Identity and Access Management (IAM): SSO, RBAC, MFA, directory integration, federation (SAML, OIDC).
• Infrastructure and workload security: Zero Trust, encryption, workload isolation, segmentation.
• Kubernetes and container security: RBAC, admission controllers, runtime scanning, OPA/Gatekeeper.
• Application security tooling: SAST, SCA, DAST, SBOMs, CI/CD security integration.
• Proficiency in automation and scripting (Terraform, Ansible, Python, Go) for secure-by-default deployments.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (NIST, SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS Benchmarks).
• Strong ability to translate customer security requirements into actionable architectures.
• Excellent customer-facing communication skills, able to engage technical and executive audiences alike.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience designing and delivering secure multi-tenant HPC environments.
• Hands-on experience with privileged access management (PAM) tools, secrets management, and identity lifecycle automation.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) for monitoring security posture.
• Contributions to security or IAM-related open-source projects.
• Relevant Security and cloud certifications certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CKS, CCSP, or AWS Security Specialty.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical field.

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