Consultant, Cybersecurity Consulting
About The Position
The Dell Security & Resiliency organization manages security risk across Dell’s business. The Cybersecurity Network Architect will join the Enterprise Security Architecture team in Round Rock, Texas, or Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and set the architectural vision for Dell’s on-premises and cloud network environments. The role works across Cybersecurity, IT, and business units to build partnerships and support strategic initiatives advancing network security. The architect develops and leads methods for identifying effective security solutions, provides thought leadership, and coordinates reviews of tools, technologies, and processes used to secure the enterprise. The role includes translating evolving business requirements—including those involving AI workloads, autonomous services, and non-human interactions—into documented security requirements, architectural artifacts, technical designs, and risk mitigation strategies. The position develops reference architectures and secure design patterns; establishes network detection, response, and continuous-monitoring frameworks; creates roadmaps for modern network security capabilities; and designs controls to protect AI ecosystems and enable safe enterprise connectivity.
Requirements
- Proven success securing complex network environments, including hybrid cloud infrastructures, distributed architectures, and modern zero-trust implementations.
- Practical experience architecting security controls for large-scale cloud networks, enterprise connectivity platforms, and AI platforms.
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity architecture principles and related technologies, including firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention, identity-centric access, network segmentation, and AI models.
- Executive-ready communication skills; ability to influence cross-functional teams, present architectural decisions to senior leadership, and mentor engineers and architects.
- Knowledge of change-management and service-management best practices, with experience supporting global operations and maintaining stability across large enterprise network environments.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, information security, or a related major with 12+ years of experience, or equivalent direct experience in cybersecurity.
- Experience using AI-based security tools such as NDR, IDS/IPS, anomaly detection, and automated response systems to improve network visibility, threat detection, and incident response.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders, engineering teams, and AI platform owners to understand evolving business requirements and translate them into documented security requirements, architectural artifacts, technical designs, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Develop reference architectures and secure design patterns for enterprise networks, including segmentation for AI inference environments, secure connectivity for AI models, data pipelines, and distributed compute, identity-centric access controls, and policy-based access and isolation of sensitive model and data assets.
- Establish network detection and response (NDR) and continuous-monitoring frameworks, including detection of machine-generated traffic anomalies, behavioral analytics for AI-driven and automated systems, identification of unauthorized lateral movement, and safeguards for regulatory and internal AI-security compliance.
- Create strategies and roadmaps for zero-trust network access, secure edge and WAN modernization, encryption and key management, network-level access governance, and alignment with cybersecurity and AI-safety standards.
- Design and advocate for controls that protect AI ecosystems, including secure service mesh architectures, protected inter-service communication, and guardrails for safe AI connectivity across the enterprise.
- Work across Dell’s Cybersecurity, IT, and business units to develop buy-in and partnerships for strategic network-security initiatives.
- Lead methods for identifying and advocating effective security solutions, provide thought leadership, and coordinate reviews of tools, technologies, and processes used to secure the enterprise.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
