Cognna is hiring a Security Architect to 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 and integrate DevSecOps practices. This strategic and practical role shapes security roadmaps, advises leadership, and guides teams through implementation.
What You'll Do
- Design and lead security architecture for our 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.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
- 7+ years of experience in information security.
- 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.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills — able to translate complex architecture into clear guidance for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Fluent in English.
- Willingness to travel for key customer engagements, demos, and industry events.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of container and microservices security (Docker, Kubernetes) is a strong plus.
- Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CCSP, SABSA) are highly desirable.
- Arabic proficiency is a bonus.
Technical Stack
- AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, SOAR, Docker, Kubernetes
Team & Environment
You will partner with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- 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
Work Mode
This is a global, fully remote position.
Cognna is an equal opportunity employer.
