Senior Security Architect (SecOps, Cloud & AI Security)

Company Description: Up Defense is the operational execution arm for modern security teams, focused on turning security strategy into daily, effective defense. The company implements, hardens, and defends Cloud-Native, SaaS, and AI environments around the clock, ensuring that organizations get hands-on engineering support rather than static policy documents. Up Defense operates across SaaS Security and SSPM, Cloud and Kubernetes SecOps, DevSecOps and pipeline defense, AI and agent security, and MDR with incident response. As a subsidiary of Up Security, the company draws on more than 15 years of experience and over 100 managed customers to help organizations move from shelf-ware tools to deployed, actionable defense.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Security Architect to join our cybersecurity consulting team.

This is a highly technical, hands-on architecture role for an experienced security professional who can design enterprise security architectures, lead complex security implementations, and serve as a trusted advisor for enterprise customers across SecOps, Cloud Security, and modern AI Security domains.

We are looking for someone who enjoys designing, implementing, and optimizing security architecture while remaining deeply involved in technical execution.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise Security, SecOps, and Cloud Security architectures.

• Lead end-to-end security projects from architecture through production deployment.

• Design and implement modern security platforms including Next-Generation SIEM, XDR, EDR, SASE, ZTNA, SWG, DLP, and Cloud Security solutions.

• Build detection strategies, detection engineering use cases, correlation rules, security monitoring frameworks, and threat detection capabilities.

• Design incident response workflows, security automation, detection engineering, and SOC operational improvements.

• Serve as the technical authority and trusted advisor for enterprise customers.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of hands-on experience in enterprise cybersecurity.

• Experience end to end designing and implementing enterprise security solutions using modern platforms.

• Hands-on experience with Cloud Security across Azure, AWS and/or GCP, including CNAPP and CSPM technologies.

• Familiarity with modern AI Security technologies, including LLM Security, AI Detection & Response (AI DR), and securing AI-powered applications and workloads.

• Excellent customer-facing, consulting, and communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience working in an MSSP, cybersecurity consulting, or managed security services environment.

• Hands-on experience with SentinelOne, Cloudflare, Elastic Security, Microsoft 365/Entra ID, AWS security services, or similar platforms.

• Familiarity with SOC operations, MDR, incident investigation, security integrations, and automation.

• Knowledge of Zero Trust, SASE, EDR/XDR, SIEM, cloud security, and AI security technologies.

• Experience working directly with customers, including technical presentations, solution design, and implementation.

• Ability to work independently across multiple customer environments in a fast-paced, growing company.

• Relevant cybersecurity certifications.