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
Requirements
- 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 (e.g., 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
Benefits
💰
Competitive Package
- Salary + equity options + performance incentives🧘
Flexible & Remote
- Work from anywhere with an outcomes-first culture🤝
Team of Experts
- Work with designers, engineers, and security pros 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
