Cyber Security Architect

About this role

Cye is looking for a security architect to join our team!

The cyber architecture team is part of Cye’s professional services delivery department and is dedicated to helping drive Cye customers' cybersecurity maturity forward. as a security architect you would be conducting enterprise level organizations' white-box risk assessments, reviewing design issues or security controls configuration, and offering relevant mitigations to identified risks during penetration testing, executed by Cye’s red teamers.

Responsibilities

• Perform security maturity assessments, including reviews of organizational policies, standards, procedures, and governance practices, aligned with the NIST CSF 2.0 cybersecurity framework.
• Review designed or deployed environments, identifying security flaws and recommending mitigations plans
• Review Implementation of technical security controls, identify gaps and offer practical mitigations.
• Escort, evaluate and improve our clients’ security posture by elevating their infrastructure resilience and implement best-practice organizational procedures
• Escort mitigation plans and design practical implementations for security issues e.g., firewall policies review, segmentation & segregation recommendations, Microsoft AD-tier Model implementation etc.
• Research and advocate for new security solutions and technologies

Qualifications

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• 3+ years of hands-on experience with securing large organizational networks, including security controls, OS hardening, network devices’ security, etc.
• Strong understanding of governance, risk management, and operational processes.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO 27001 concepts), risk assessment, mitigation planning, and third‑party risk management.
• Significant experience in at least five subjects from the following list:
• Vast knowledge and expertise in cyber-security IT systems and cloud infrastructure
• Deep understanding of Microsoft IT on-prem and cloud infrastructure, e.g., Entra-id, Office365, AD, GPO, protocols.
• Practical experience with cloud environments – AWS, Azure, GCP– A significant advantage
• Practical experience in consulting services and risk assessment
• Practical experience with security configuration and maturity assessment
• Knowledge of security controls, e.g., AV, EDR/XDR, DLP, Device control, etc.
• ZTNA design & deployment experience.
• Experience with implementing security monitoring procedures & systems (SOC, SIEM, SOAR)

Cye helps security and risk leaders gain a clear, defensible view of their cyber exposure, grounded in financial impact and real-world attack paths. By continuously quantifying exposure and validating it in context, organizations can establish a strong baseline, prioritize decisions with confidence, and track measurable reduction over time.