Cyber Security Consultant

Job Title- Cybersecurity Architect - Intermediate

Timings - 3 PM to 10 PM IST.

Role Summary

The Cybersecurity Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and continuously improving enterprise security architecture across infrastructure, applications, data, and cloud domains. This role bridges strategy and execution, ensuring security controls are risk-based, scalable, compliant, and aligned with business objectives. The architect acts as a trusted advisor to engineering, IT, compliance, and leadership, translating security requirements into practical, implementable architectures.

Key Responsibilities:

Security Architecture & Design

Define and maintain enterprise security architecture standards and reference architectures.

Design secure solutions across on-prem and cloud infrastructure, SaaS and custom applications, identity, access, and privileged access, data protection and encryption.

Risk & Compliance Alignment

Translate regulatory and contractual requirements into technical controls, including ISO/IEC 27001

Support audits and assessments by reviewing architecture evidence, ensuring controls are implemented as designed.

Partner with GRC teams on risk acceptance, control gaps, and remediation strategies.

Security Control Governance

Define minimum security baselines for: endpoints and servers, virtual machines and containers, cloud workloads and platforms.

Review and approve architecture diagrams, solution designs, third-party integrations.

Participate in security design reviews.

Review software packages for vulnerabilities and cybersecurity compliance.

Cloud & Platform Security

Architect secure usage of public cloud (IaaS, PaaS), SaaS platforms and low-code tools.

Define guardrails for: network segmentation, logging and monitoring, identity federation and conditional access.

Ensure shared-responsibility boundaries are understood and enforced.

Collaboration & Advisory Role

Act as a consultative partner to engineering and application teams, infrastructure and cloud teams, and procurement and vendor management.

Provide architectural guidance early in project lifecycles to avoid rework.

Mentor junior architects and security engineers.

Produce and maintain architecture standards and patterns, reference diagrams, security decision records.

Communicate complex security concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Security, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, architecture, or infrastructure roles.
• Strong understanding of network, endpoint, cloud security, identity and access management, security monitoring and incident response concepts.
• Experience operating in regulated environments

Soft Skills & Attributes

• Risk-based decision making
• System-level thinking
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Influence without direct authority
• Ability to balance security rigor with business enablement