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Cybersecurity Architect (IAM/ PAM/ AD)
Apolis
🇺🇸 United States
Hybrid
3 months ago
$65 – $70 / hour
- IAM
- RBAC
- Risk Management
- Agile
3 months ago
Location: Irving, TX/ Charlotte, NC/ Pheonix, AZ – Hybrid Role
Contract and Full Time
Role Summary:
We are seeking a Security Architect to design and drive security architecture for an enterprise Security Baseline Platform. This role will be responsible for defining role-based access controls (RBAC), governance frameworks, and security baseline standards to ensure the platform is secure, compliant, and audit-ready.
The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in access control design, security architecture, and baseline-driven hardening practices, with the ability to translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable, enforceable security controls.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement RBAC models, access policies, and least-privilege frameworks
- Define and enforce security baseline standards aligned to enterprise and regulatory requirements
- Architect governance workflows for access control, approvals, and auditability
- Integrate security controls across data, APIs, applications, and enterprise systems
- Collaborate with engineering teams to embed secure-by-design principles
- Support design of lifecycle controls including provisioning, reviews, and decommissioning
- Ensure alignment with compliance, audit, and risk management requirement
Skills:
- Strong expertise in RBAC design, IAM, and access governance
- Knowledge of security baseline frameworks and hardening standards
- Experience designing security controls for enterprise platforms
- Understanding of auditability, compliance, and risk-driven security design
- Familiarity with IAM/IGA systems and SSO integration
- Understanding of API security, authentication, and authorization patterns
- Knowledge of application security and secure coding practices
- Experience working with cloud and/or hybrid enterprise environments
- Experience with role lifecycle management, segregation of duties (SoD), and approval workflows
- Understanding of regulatory and compliance expectations (e.g., BFSI, enterprise security standards)
- Ability to design audit-ready systems with traceability and logging
- Strong experience working in Agile environments
- Ability to work closely with architects, developers, and business stakeholders
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Experience
- 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity or security architecture roles
- Hands-on experience designing RBAC and IAM controls for enterprise systems
- Experience defining and implementing security baselines or configuration standards
- Experience working on platforms requiring governance, auditability, and compliance
- Prior experience in regulated industries (e.g., Banking, Financial Services) preferred
- Experience with security benchmarks (e.g., CIS, STIG)
- Familiarity with policy-as-code or automated compliance frameworks
- Exposure to workflow-driven platforms and lifecycle governance models
- Experience supporting large-scale transformation or platform modernization initiatives
Submission Format:
- Need updated Resume, visa copy, photo id, i94 and travel history for visa independent candidate with below details.
Cybersecurity Architect (IAM/ PAM/ AD) · Apolis