Cyber Security Architect

Position Summary
The Cyber Security Architect provides strategic leadership for the design implementation and governance of the organizations cybersecurity architecture. This role develops secure scalable solutions that protect enterprise systems applications cloud environments data and identities while enabling business growth and technology innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise cybersecurity architecture standards roadmaps security patterns and reference architectures.
• Lead security architecture reviews for cloud infrastructure application AI SaaS and business transformation initiatives.
• Design and implement security controls across cloud platforms network architecture identity and access management data protection endpoint security and third-party integrations.
• Partner with engineering development infrastructure and business teams to embed secure-by-design and security-by-default principles throughout the technology lifecycle.
• Conduct threat modeling architecture risk assessments and security reviews to identify vulnerabilities and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Provide cybersecurity leadership for Zero Trust initiatives identity governance privileged access management authentication authorization and access control frameworks.
• Establish security requirements for AI and emerging technologies including governance data protection model security and responsible AI adoption.
• Develop security reference architectures for enterprise platforms cloud services customer-facing applications and operational technologies.
• Ensure alignment with regulatory compliance and industry frameworks including PCI DSS NIST CIS Controls SOX and privacy requirements.
• Evaluate emerging threats attack techniques and cybersecurity technologies to enhance the organizations security posture.
• Collaborate with Security Operations Incident Response Vulnerability Management and Engineering teams to improve detection response and resilience capabilities.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to technology and business leaders on cybersecurity risks architecture decisions and strategic investments.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in cybersecurity security engineering cloud security infrastructure or enterprise architecture.
• Strong expertise in cloud security application security network security identity and access management and security architecture.
• Experience with Identity Access Cloud Infrastructure SIEM EDR/XDR and DevSecOps technologies.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust threat modeling security frameworks regulatory compliance and risk management.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence technical teams and executive stakeholders.

Measurable Security Outcomes

• Reduce critical and high-risk architectural security findings by 30-50% annually through proactive security design reviews and threat modeling.
• Increase adoption of secure-by-design standards across new technology initiatives to 95% or greater.
• Reduce security exceptions and risk acceptance requests through standardized security reference architectures.
• Improve cloud security compliance and posture scores through implementation of enterprise cloud security guardrails.
• Accelerate secure project delivery by providing approved architecture patterns and reusable security designs.
• Reduce identity-related security risk through Zero Trust architecture privileged access controls and modern authentication strategies.
• Improve compliance readiness and audit outcomes by embedding security controls within enterprise architectures.
• Strengthen cyber resilience through architecture decisions that improve detection coverage containment capabilities and recovery readiness.
• Enable secure adoption of AI technologies through governance frameworks risk assessments and security controls for AI platforms and data usage.

Business Impact

• Adds strategic architecture expertise for AI cloud identity and secure-by-design initiatives.
• Drives enterprise-wide cybersecurity maturity and long-term security strategy.
• Reduces organizational risk by integrating security into technology decisions from inception through deployment.
• Enables secure digital transformation while improving compliance scalability operational efficiency and cyber resilience.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in cybersecurity security engineering cloud security infrastructure or enterprise architecture.
• Strong expertise in cloud security application security network security identity and access management and security architecture.
• Experience with Identity Access Cloud Infrastructure SIEM EDR/XDR and DevSecOps technologies.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust threat modeling security frameworks regulatory compliance and risk management.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence technical teams and executive stakeholders.

Additional Information :

Workplace

• One of our values pillars is to work as One Team and we believe that there is no replacement for in-person collaboration but understand the value of some flexibility. Public Storage teammates are expected to work in the office five days each week with the option to take up to three flexible remote days per month. 

Public Storage is an equal opportunity employer and embraces diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability or any other protected status. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

**Sponsorship for Work Authorization is not available for this posting.  Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without restrictions or requiring sponsorship now or in the future. We do not provide training plans or support for F-1 OPT STEM OPT extensions or future visa sponsorship.**

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time