Principal Architect - Cyber Security

What Drives Success

Cyber Defense Strategy & Architecture

• Define and maintain enterprise Blue Team security architecture roadmap.
• Design scalable cyber defense capabilities across cloud, endpoint, identity, network, applications, OT, and SaaS environments.
• Lead security architecture decisions for SIEM, SOAR, XDR, UEBA, TIP, DSPM, and AI Security platforms.
• Establish security engineering standards, reference architectures, and defense patterns.

SIEM Engineering & Detection Strategy

• Own enterprise SIEM architecture, use case lifecycle, content governance, and platform optimization.
• Develop risk-based detection frameworks aligned to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Drive Detection-as-Code practices with CI/CD integration.
• Improve detection fidelity through behavioral analytics, threat intelligence, and AI-powered analytics.
• Establish threat-based detection coverage metrics.

SOAR & Autonomous Security Operations

• Lead SOAR architecture and orchestration strategy.
• Design automated response playbooks for high-volume attack scenarios.
• Implement machine-speed containment actions such as:
• Endpoint isolation
• Account suspension
• Token revocation
• Network containment
• Email quarantine
• IOC blocking
• Reduce analyst workload through AI-assisted investigation and autonomous workflows.

AI Security Defense

• Design controls to detect and defend against:
• Prompt injection attacks
• LLM abuse
• AI model poisoning
• Data leakage through AI platforms
• Autonomous agent attacks
• Deepfake and synthetic identity threats
• Implement AI-assisted threat detection, correlation, and investigation capabilities.
• Establish governance, monitoring, and security controls for enterprise AI adoption.

Threat Hunting & Adversary Detection

• Build and lead enterprise proactive threat hunting programs.
• Develop advanced hunting methodologies focused on:
• Living-off-the-land attacks
• Identity compromise
• Lateral movement
• Cloud-native attacks
• Ransomware precursors
• Insider threats
• AI-driven attack campaigns
• Create repeatable hunt playbooks and hunting analytics.
• Drive adversary emulation and purple team exercises.

Emerging Threat Research

• Track evolving threat actor TTPs.
• Conduct threat-focused research on:
• AI-powered phishing
• GenAI-enabled malware
• Autonomous attack tooling
• Ransomware evolution
• Supply chain attacks
• Cloud and SaaS threats
• Translate intelligence into actionable detections and mitigations.

 

Security Leadership & Influence

• Provide technical leadership across SOC, IR, CDE, DLP, Cloud Security, and AppSec teams.
• Mentor senior security engineers, architects, and threat hunters.
• Act as executive advisor for cyber defense modernization initiatives.
• Lead security architecture reviews and tabletop exercises.

What We Are Looking For

Experience

• 15+ years of cybersecurity experience.
• 8+ years in Security Operations, SIEM Engineering, Threat Hunting, or Cyber Defense Architecture.
• Proven experience building enterprise-scale SOC programs.
• Experience leading security transformation initiatives.

Technical Expertise

Deep expertise in:

• SIEM Platforms
• Microsoft Sentinel
• Splunk
• Cortex XSIAM
• Elastic
• SOAR Platforms
• Cortex XSOAR
• Microsoft Security Copilot & Sentinel Automation
• Splunk SOAR
• Detection Engineering
• Threat Intelligence
• MITRE ATT&CK
• Threat Hunting
• Cloud Security
• Identity Security
• EDR/XDR
• UEBA
• Data Protection & DLP
• Security Analytics
• AI Security

Preferred Certifications

CISSP, GCIA, GCTI, GREM, GMON, SABSA, Azure Security Engineer, Microsoft Sentinel Specialist, SANS Threat Hunting Certifications