Senior Cloud Security Architect, Mandiant, Cloud and Infrastructure
Role Overview
Mandiant’s Security Transformation Services team works with organizations undertaking complex security transformations.
The architect advises clients migrating critical workloads from on-premises environments or addressing fragmented multi-cloud security, governance, and visibility.
The role bridges engineering teams and executive leadership through security architecture, operating models, and roadmaps.
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About the role
Mandiant’s Security Transformation Services team works with organizations undertaking complex security transformations.
The architect advises clients migrating critical workloads from on-premises environments or addressing fragmented multi-cloud security, governance, and visibility.
The role bridges engineering teams and executive leadership through security architecture, operating models, and roadmaps.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least five years of technical cybersecurity experience, including cloud architecture, enterprise infrastructure, and threat defense.
- Experience leading on-premises-to-cloud migrations or multi-cloud consolidation/remediation projects.
- Experience mentoring and advising client leadership on operational and cultural security change.
- Experience defining technical requirements and engineering roadmaps and conducting architecture reviews across multi-stakeholder engagements.
- Eligibility to secure and maintain High-Level Saudi Arabian National Security and Defense Clearances, equivalent to UK Developed Vetting clearance.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience securing Google Cloud or other cloud platforms, including native security tools, IAM policies, and VPC controls.
- Expertise in IAM, identity federation, PAM, and workload identity across hybrid enterprise environments.
- Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD security gating, infrastructure as code, and CSPM/CWPP tooling.
- Ability to map adversary tactics to defenses; certifications such as Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer or CISSP are cited.
- Ability to communicate technical risks to executives and board-level stakeholders.
- Ability to travel up to 50% across Saudi Arabia and the wider region.
Responsibilities
- Guide client migrations from legacy on-premises datacenters to cloud and rationalize fragmented multi-cloud footprints.
- Redesign cloud security architectures and modernize SecOps, DevSecOps, identity governance, and CI/CD security workflows.
- Enforce resilient security baselines aligned with Mandiant threat intelligence.
- Educate and coach executives, business leaders, and engineering leads on security transformation and cloud operating-model changes.
- Help implement Zero Trust access, workload identity federation, IaC guardrails, container/Kubernetes security, and cloud network micro-segmentation.
- Turn breach-investigation root causes into architectural improvements and measurable mitigation programs.
- Produce actionable architectural blueprints, operating-model frameworks, and executive-ready roadmaps.
Working location
- Applicants may select an in-office location in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, or a remote location in Saudi Arabia.
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