Security Architect - Remote

As a Security Architect, you will define and enforce security-by-design principles across our platforms. You’ll partner with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to build resilient, cloud-native architectures, integrate DevSecOps practices, and ensure our SOC platform aligns with leading security frameworks. This role is both strategic and practical: shaping security roadmaps, advising leadership, and guiding teams through implementation.

What You’ll Do

• Design and lead security architecture for COGNNA’s multi‑tenant SaaS platform, ensuring secure cloud‑native deployments across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Develop and enforce security‑by‑design principles, integrating them into product architecture, SDLC, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Conduct risk assessments, threat modeling, and architecture reviews to identify gaps and propose effective mitigations.
• Mentor and guide security engineers, elevating team capabilities in secure development, automation, and operations.
• Build defense‑in‑depth strategies spanning application, infrastructure, and data security layers.
• Implement and automate security controls using tools like Terraform, Ansible, SOAR, and CI/CD integrations.
• Collaborate with compliance teams to map architectures against standards such as NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS benchmarks.
• Partner with product and customer teams to support demos, POCs, and deployment design reviews with enterprise clients.
• Stay ahead of threats and innovations, continuously improving our architecture to meet evolving security and regulatory demands.
• Support incident response by designing resilient monitoring, detection, and recovery strategies into the architecture.

Benefits

• Competitive package – salary, equity options, and performance incentives.
• Flexible & remote – work from anywhere with an outcomes‑first culture.
• Team of experts – work with designers, engineers, and security professionals solving real‑world problems.
• Growth‑focused – your ideas ship, your voice counts, your growth matters.
• Global impact – build products that protect critical systems and data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of experience in information security, with at least 3 years in a leadership or security architecture role.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring security engineering teams.
• Strong background in cloud security (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including architecture, monitoring, and incident response.
• Hands‑on experience with secure SDLC, DevSecOps practices, and CI/CD security integrations.
• Deep understanding of security architecture frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, CIS, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of application, infrastructure, and cloud security controls.
• Proficiency with risk assessments, threat modeling, and security reviews.
• Experience with security automation and orchestration tools (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD integrations, SOAR).
• Familiarity with IAM, encryption, endpoint security, vulnerability management, and network security.
• Knowledge of container and microservices security (Docker, Kubernetes) is a strong plus.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills—able to translate complex architecture into clear guidance for technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Security certifications (CISSP, CISM, CCSP, SABSA) are highly desirable.
• Fluent in English; Arabic proficiency is a bonus.
• Willingness to travel for key customer engagements, demos, and industry events.