Security Architect - Cloud & Application

Location: Albany, NY, United States. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Salary: $150,000 yearly.

Company

hirify.global provider.

What you will do

• Conduct STRIDE-based threat modeling for the FICC target-state architecture and map security controls to threats and mitigations.
• Define security testing frameworks covering pre-deployment, integration, resilience, and continuous testing.
• Validate multi-region disaster recovery security designs, including split-brain prevention and audit trail requirements.
• Design HashiCorp Vault integration patterns, OpenShift authentication methods, and ACL policies.
• Assess IBM MQ RDQM, AWS, A3P, PingFederate, and cloud connectivity security controls.
• Produce implementation guidance, control mappings, developer security checklists, and recommendations for HiPAM-to-Vault migration.

Requirements

• 12–15 years of relevant cybersecurity or security architecture experience.
• Strong experience with STRIDE and DREAD threat modeling for enterprise architectures.
• Strong IAM design experience and knowledge of OpenShift RBAC, namespace isolation, SCCs, network policies, and admission controllers.
• Hands-on HashiCorp Vault integration experience and strong understanding of IBM MQ security, including mTLS and CONNAUTH.
• Experience with AWS security architecture, SCPs, account boundaries, multi-region disaster recovery, audit trails, and split-brain prevention.
• AWS Security Specialty certification and financial services security context, including SIFMU awareness, are required or preferred as specified in the source description.

Nice to have

• Application architecture and architecture principle design experience.
• Experience with AWS Well-Architected Tools and deployment management.
• Experience with performance testing and NFR gathering, including log analysis, user interviews, reverse engineering, and NFR documentation.
• Experience with PingFederate, secure IBM MQ RDQM messaging architectures, OpenShift applications, and HiPAM-to-Vault migration assessments.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent employment.
• Inclusive workplace committed to equal consideration for qualified applicants.