Cyber Security Consultant

Job Title- Cybersecurity Architect - Intermediate Timings - 3 PM to 10 PM IST.

Role Summary The Cybersecurity Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and continuously improving enterprise security architecture across infrastructure, applications, data, and cloud domains. This role bridges strategy and execution, ensuring security controls are risk-based, scalable, compliant, and aligned with business objectives. The architect acts as a trusted advisor to engineering, IT, compliance, and leadership, translating security requirements into practical, implementable architectures.

Key Responsibilities: Security Architecture & Design Define and maintain enterprise security architecture standards and reference architectures. Design secure solutions across on-prem and cloud infrastructure, SaaS and custom applications, identity, access, and privileged access, data protection and encryption.

Risk & Compliance Alignment Translate regulatory and contractual requirements into technical controls, including ISO/IEC 27001 Support audits and assessments by reviewing architecture evidence, ensuring controls are implemented as designed. Partner with GRC teams on risk acceptance, control gaps, and remediation strategies.

Security Control Governance Define minimum security baselines for: endpoints and servers, virtual machines and containers, cloud workloads and platforms. Review and approve architecture diagrams, solution designs, third-party integrations. Participate in security design reviews. Review software packages for vulnerabilities and cybersecurity compliance.

Cloud & Platform Security Architect secure usage of public cloud (IaaS, PaaS), SaaS platforms and low-code tools. Define guardrails for: network segmentation, logging and monitoring, identity federation and conditional access. Ensure shared-responsibility boundaries are understood and enforced.

Collaboration & Advisory Role Act as a consultative partner to engineering and application teams, infrastructure and cloud teams, and procurement and vendor management. Provide architectural guidance early in project lifecycles to avoid rework. Mentor junior architects and security engineers.

Documentation & Communication Produce and maintain architecture standards and patterns, reference diagrams, security decision records. Communicate complex security concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or related field (or equivalent experience). 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, architecture, or infrastructure roles . Strong understanding of network, endpoint, cloud security, identity and access management, security monitoring and incident response concepts. Experience operating in regulated environments

Soft Skills & Attributes Risk-based decision making System-level thinking Clear written and verbal communication Influence without direct authority Ability to balance security rigor with business enablement