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Cloud Security Architect

RecruitTalent, LLC.
Sterling, VA Contractor
POSTED ON 1/11/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/10/2026
Title: Cloud Security Architect-W2

Location: Sterling, VA/Silver Spring, MD/Atlanta, GA (Only Locals)

Only USC/GC with 15 years with Media or Entertainment Domain

Job Responsibilities / Typical Day In The Role

  • Act as a Cloud Security Subject Matter Expert (SME) for WBD’s Infosec department.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce cloud security risk for WBD, to solution, and to lead implementations.
  • Create design artifacts to enable members of the Cloud Security team to implement solutions (built in-house or purchased from vendor).
  • Partner with product teams to design secure network and serverless architectures.
  • Provide strong IAM Policy guidance for least privileged access to product teams.
  • Review cloud architecture and AI/ML workflows to advise development teams on strong security design principles and identification of issues prior to deployment of systems or features.
  • Interface with Public Cloud providers to improve the security feature set of their products.
  • Interface with cloud security vendors to evaluate features and determine proof-of-value.
  • Mentor junior members of the team.
  • Create and maintain documentation as it relates to cloud security designs/configurations, processes, standards, and recommendations.
  • Collaborate with senior management and department leaders to assess near- and long-term cloud security needs.
  • Stay current with the latest cloud threat mitigation tools and techniques

Technology Requirements

  • Experience with securing/building Azure cloud environments
  • Proficient in at least one scripting language (python, Nodejs, Golang).
  • Core understanding of IP Networking, routing, VPNs.
  • Hands-on experience with some the following:
  • Security administration in Azure
  • Developing & Securing Serverless applications
  • Infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
  • Command Line experience (Bash, Powershell, AWS-CLI)
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • Cloud Network (VPC) engineering
  • Cloud native security related tools (Azure Defender for Cloud, AWS Guard Duty, GCP Security Center, WAF)
  • GitHub Security

Must Have Skills / Requirements

  • Experience Designing and Implementing systems that support multiple users.
  • 2 years of experience; Design, Implementation, and Maintenance of systems used by users.
  • The ability to evaluate technical documentation and diagrams for cloud environments and identify security issues in those designs.
  • 2 years of experience; Security Architectural Reviews and ability to create design artifacts – including infrastructure diagrams.
  • Ability to review technical configuration and identify mitigating controls for security related misconfigurations
  • 2 years; Experience Managing Exception Requests

Nice To Have Skills / Preferred Requirements

  • AWS Certifications – AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Security Specialty
  • GCP Certifications – Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Security Engineer
  • Security Engineer Certifications – CISSP, CompTIA Security
  • Previous Experience with Wiz, Splunk, Brinqa, integrations with Slack and Jira

Soft Skills

  • Strong understanding of cloud-based infrastructure components with a specific understanding of the security risks presented in a decentralized and hybrid environment.
  • Broad understanding of information security and compliance risk, and how those apply to Public Cloud.
  • Comfortable automating processes start to finish and can work closely with cloud solutions engineering and product teams to help integrate security into their existing processes.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong attention to detail.
  • Remains productive while rapidly switching context.
  • Has a thirst for knowledge and is constantly driven to stay current with evolving threat landscapes.

Education / Certifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or related field.
  • Azure Certifications – Azure Fundamentals, Solutions Architect

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