Principal IT Security Architect

Western Governors University • Raleigh, NC

2d • $180,300 - $279,500 • Onsite

About The Position

Join a mission-driven organization where your expertise will directly strengthen the security posture of an enterprise environment supporting education at scale. As a Principal IT Security Architect, you will serve as a trusted technical leader, driving secure design, influencing enterprise strategy, and partnering across teams to embed security into every layer of the technology ecosystem.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in information security across multiple domains
• Deep technical expertise in cloud security, particularly AWS services such as EC2, VPC, IAM, and S3
• Experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices
• Hands-on experience with SIEM tools, intrusion detection systems, and endpoint protection solutions
• Strong scripting and automation skills using languages such as Python or Bash
• Proven ability to lead complex security initiatives and influence enterprise risk management strategies
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills

Nice To Haves

• 15+ years of information security experience
• Experience implementing AWS native security tools like GuardDuty, Security Hub, Macie, and Inspector
• Experience with container security and orchestration platforms

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise security architecture across cloud, network, and application environments
• Partner with engineering teams to embed security standards throughout the systems development lifecycle
• Identify, exploit, and remediate security vulnerabilities through testing, tooling, and infrastructure build code review
• Provide leadership across areas the security team
• Drive cloud security initiatives, including hardening AWS infrastructure and reducing misconfigurations
• Develop and implement policy-as-code to automate compliance and security enforcement
• Analyze cyber threats and create detection rules based on indicators of compromise and attack frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
• health savings account and flexible spending account
• basic and voluntary life insurance
• disability coverage
• accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
• legal and identity theft coverage
• retirement savings plan
• wellbeing program
• discounted WGU tuition
• flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
• flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
• 11 paid holidays
• other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed