AI / Cloud Security Architect

Strayer Education, Inc.

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Strategic Education, Inc. (SEI) is driven by a mission to expand access to high quality, outcomes driven education that prepares learners for career advancement and lifelong success. Serving adult learners and workforce focused populations, SEI leverages technology enabled learning platforms to deliver flexible, supportive, and skills-oriented educational experiences. The Security Architect – AI, Cloud & Secure Engineering is responsible for designing and implementing secure architecture across AI platforms, cloud infrastructure, and modern software engineering environments. This role partners closely with engineering, cloud operations, platform, and data science teams to embed security into AI systems, cloud native architectures, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and DevSecOps pipelines supporting both academic and business systems. This is a hands on, high impact role that balances business priorities, emerging cyber threats, and secure engineering practices. The architect establishes secure by design patterns, evaluates emerging technologies, mentors technical teams, and influences enterprise security strategy across multi-cloud platforms, AI/ML workloads, and modern application architectures. The architect balances business priorities, emerging cyber threats, and secure engineering practices to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and responsible use of enterprise data and AI systems. This role will establish secure design patterns, evaluate emerging technologies, and guide development teams in implementing secure-by-design solutions across multi-cloud platforms, AI/ML workloads, and modern application architectures. The position also mentors security and engineering teams while influencing enterprise security strategy for cloud platforms, AI solutions, automation, and software delivery pipelines.

Requirements

6+ years of experience in security engineering, cloud engineering, application security, or architecture
Demonstrated experience securing cloud native and AI enabled environments
Strong architectural thinking with the ability to design secure, scalable solutions
Ability to translate business and platform requirements into practical security architectures
Proven ability to collaborate closely with engineering, cloud, and platform teams and communicate architectural decisions effectively
Comfort operating in fast paced, evolving technical environments
Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Secure cloud and application architecture
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Kubernetes and container security
CI/CD platforms
Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Zero Trust
Data protection, encryption, and secrets management
API and microservices security
Threat modeling and vulnerability management
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent professional experience

Nice To Haves

CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent security certifications
Cloud security certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Kubernetes or container security certifications
AI/ML security or data security certifications

Responsibilities

Define, maintain, and evolve enterprise security architecture for AI systems, cloud platforms, and modern application environments
Develop and document secure design patterns for microservices, APIs, containerized workloads, and serverless architectures
Establish security standards and reference architectures for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated deployment pipelines
Design and implement security controls for AI, machine learning, and generative AI platforms
Identify and mitigate risks related to data leakage, model poisoning, prompt injection, and AI supply chain vulnerabilities
Partner with data science and analytics teams to support secure model training, deployment, and governance
Help establish governance, monitoring, and controls for the responsible and secure use of enterprise AI
Architect secure solutions across multicloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Design security architectures covering identity and access management, network segmentation, data protection, workload security, and monitoring
Build and socialize security patterns for Kubernetes, containers, APIs, and distributed systems
Collaborate with cloud and platform teams to ensure secure implementation of infrastructure and services
Integrate security throughout the CI/CD pipelines and the full software development lifecycle (SDLC)
Implement automated security controls including SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC scanning, container security, and runtime protections
Provide architectural guidance on secure coding, API security, and microservices security
Promote shift left and secure-by-design development practices
Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments for new and existing systems
Serve as a subject matter expert during security incidents affecting cloud or application environments
Mentor engineers and architects on secure architecture and engineering best practices
Contribute to enterprise security standards, policies, and long-term technical roadmaps