Senior Multi-Cloud Infrastructure and Security Architect

Pay: $70-80/hr

ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR MISSION

The Enterprise Email Security team is responsible for safeguarding the email communications for a complex global organization. Although the current team excels in platform architecture, threat mitigation, incident response, compliance, and governance, we are planning a significant transformation of our infrastructure. This initiative involves expanding from a legacy on-premises environment to a robust, multi-cloud ecosystem across leading global cloud service providers.

While the organization possesses deep security expertise, there is a need for a highly skilled professional in cloud architecture and enterprise IT infrastructure to design and implement secure and resilient cloud solutions.

The company is seeking a Senior Multi-Cloud Infrastructure and Security Architect for a contractor role. This individual will serve as a technical leader, translating high-level security requirements into practical, scalable cloud engineering solutions. The role is critical to ensuring the organization's systems are robust, resilient, and highly available.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities

1. Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Architecture Design

• Architect and implement secure, enterprise-grade multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure (GCP is a plus), ensuring alignment with benchmarks and corporate security policies.

• Adopt complex hybrid connectivity solutions to link on-premise and cloud based systems.

• Establish scalable IAM hierarchies, cross-account trust relationships, and organizational units across multiple cloud tenants.

2. Infrastructure Resiliency & Disaster Recovery (DR)

• Architect high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery topologies across disparate cloud providers to eliminate single points of failure (e.g., active-active cross-cloud replication).

• Develop, document, and test automated failover mechanisms for critical enterprise workloads to ensure zero-downtime objectives.

3. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation

• Define, build, and maintain the the IaC repository using automation platforms.

• Implement secure CI/CD deployment pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) embedded with automated security guardrails and static analysis tools.

4. Technical Advisory & Collaboration

• Serve as the primary subject matter expert (SME) on cloud infrastructure for the core Cyber Security team, translating security objectives into concrete cloud configurations.

• Collaborate with traditional on-prem network and sysadmin teams to systematically migrate or extend legacy workloads to the cloud without disrupting active operations.

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Enterprise Scale: Minimum 8+ years of experience managing, architecture-designing, and deploying IT infrastructure within a Fortune 500 or equivalent large-scale enterprise.

• Multi-Cloud Mastery: Deep, hands-on production experience with at least two major cloud vendors (AWS and Azure are highly preferred). You know their native networking, identity systems, and edge security controls inside out.

• Networking: Strong foundational background in traditional on-premises networking (firewalls, load balancers, VLANs, proxies) and how those concepts map directly to cloud-native constructs (VPCs, VNets, Transit Gateways).

• Automation-First Mindset: Advanced proficiency with automation toolsets.

• Pragmatic Security Knowledge: While you don't need to be a penetration tester, you must thoroughly understand cloud security frameworks and modern identity protocols.

• Scripting & Systems Proficiency: Strong proficiency with Python programming, Shell scripting, and Unix/Linux operating systems.

DESIRED CERTIFICATIONS

(While your hands-on experience matters most, we highly value the following credentials)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional / AWS Certified Security - Specialty

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert / Azure Security Engineer Associate

• CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional) or equivalent infrastructure-focused certifications

PREFERRED / PLUS QUALIFICATIONS

Familiarity with Secure Email Gateway (SEG) products such as Proofpoint and Fortimail

Familiarity with Exchange-Online security products such as Sublime security and Abnormal Email Security

Experience with large-scale email broadcast or bulk-messaging platforms

Exposure to compliance frameworks, audits, and regulatory examinations

Experience integrating email platforms with monitoring, logging, and AIOps tooling

Prior experience mentoring senior or mid-level engineers

KEY ATTRIBUTES

Ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous problems

Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Self-driven learner with curiosity for modern tooling and AI-assisted development

Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence across teams and functions

WHY JOIN US

Work on mission-critical, globally distributed email security platforms

Solve complex security and compliance challenges at enterprise scale

Collaborate with highly skilled engineers in a strong engineering culture

Opportunity to shape the long-term evolution of enterprise email security architecture