Job#: 3054973
Job Description:
Location: Sterling, VA (Hybrid)
Our client is a global studio, broadcast, and streaming company operating at massive scale across Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and AWS. The Cloud Security Architect is a senior practitioner on WBD's cloud security team, reporting to director level leadership, responsible for shaping policy, leading architectural reviews, driving AI security governance, and providing direct technical guidance to product and engineering teams across all public cloud environments.
Act as a Cloud Security Subject Matter Expert (SME) for WBD's Infosec department.
Partner with product teams to design secure network and serverless architectures.
Provide strong IAM Policy guidance to enable product teams to implement least privilege access.
Review cloud architecture and AI/ML workflows to advise development teams on strong security design principles and identification of issues prior to deployment of systems or features.
Engage with Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and AWS account teams and technical advisors to influence roadmaps and resolve security escalations.
Project and Process Enhancements
Reduce cloud security risk for the client, develop solutions, and lead implementations.
Define and enforce security controls for AI/ML pipelines, including model access governance, data handling, and prompt injection risk.
Create design artifacts to enable members of the Cloud Security team to implement solutions (built in-house or purchased from vendor).
Collaborate with senior management and department leaders to assess near- and long-term cloud security needs.
Mentor junior members of the team.
Operational
Create and maintain documentation as it relates to cloud security implementations, processes, standards, and recommendations.
Participate in a tier 4 SME on-call rotation (primary duty every ~7 weeks); engaged only after lower tiers are exhausted, averaging roughly one page per quarter.
Stay current with the latest cloud and AI threat mitigation tools and techniques.
Qualifications & Experiences:
7+ years of cloud security architecture roles.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience.
Strong understanding of cloud-based infrastructure components with specific understanding of the security risks presented in a decentralized and hybrid environment.
Broad understanding of information security and compliance risk, and how those apply to Public Cloud.
Core understanding of IP Networking.
Demonstrated ability to build and own security automation end-to-end, including tool integration, pipeline implementation, and operational handoff.
Proficient in at least one scripting language (python, Nodejs, Golang, bash, etc).
Hands-on experience with the following:
o Cloud native security related tools (Azure Defender for Cloud, Google Cloud Platform Security Command Center, AWS GuardDuty, etc)
o Command Line experience (Bash, Powershell, AWS-CLI)
o Security administration in Azure/Google Cloud Platform/AWS
o Perimeter Security (WAF, CDN, public compute, etc)
o Cloud Network engineering (CIDR, public/private routing, VPN)
o Zero trust architecture and secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault)
o SIEM/logging platforms (e.g., Splunk, Chronicle)
o Infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
o Docker and Kubernetes
o Developing & Securing Serverless applications
o GitHub Security
Familiarity with security frameworks and benchmarks (NIST CSF, CIS Benchmarks, SOC 2).
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong attention to detail.
Ability to remain productive while rapidly switching context.
Demonstrated drive to stay current with evolving threat landscapes.
Not Required but preferred experience:
Experience securing AI/ML workloads, including LLM API governance, training data access controls, and RAG pipeline security.
Azure Certifications - Azure Fundamentals, Solutions Architect
Google Cloud Platform Certifications - Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Security Engineer
AWS Certifications - AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Security Specialty
Security Engineer Certifications - CISSP, CompTIA Security+
Previous Experience with Wiz, Splunk, or Brinqa integrations
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