Principal Cloud Architect

Key Skills: DevOps, Security

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Lead security-focused SRE initiatives, including secure CI/CD pipelines, automated vulnerability management, and threat modeling.
• Develop security automation tools to detect and mitigate security risks proactively.
• Collaborate with security teams to integrate Zero Trust Architecture, IAM best practices, and least privilege principles across infrastructure.
• Monitor and improve system reliability, performance, and security posture using SIEM, IDS/IPS, and security analytics tools.
• Enhance incident response and forensics capabilities, ensuring rapid detection, response, and recovery from security threats.
• Implement secure logging, monitoring, and anomaly detection for cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes).
• Automate security policy enforcement and compliance monitoring (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, HIPAA, GDPR).
• Drive chaos engineering and resilience testing to validate system security and failure recovery mechanisms.
• Mentor and guide SRE and security engineers in best practices for secure infrastructure and operational excellence.

Skills Required:

• Expertise in designing and maintaining secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure
• Experience in security-focused SRE initiatives including CI/CD, vulnerability management, and threat modeling
• Proficiency in developing security automation tools
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture, IAM best practices, and least privilege principles
• Familiarity with SIEM, IDS/IPS, and security analytics tools
• Strong skills in incident response, threat detection, and forensics
• Experience with secure logging, monitoring, and anomaly detection in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, HIPAA, GDPR
• Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing
• Ability to mentor and guide teams in secure infrastructure and operational excellence

Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field