Cloud Security Architect
Gibson Dunn · Century City; Dallas; Denver; Houston; Los Angeles; New York City; Orange County; Palo Alto; San Francisco; Washington, D.C.
About the role
Leads cloud security architecture for the law firm Gibson Dunn, reporting to the Senior Director of Information Security Engineering and based in any of its US offices. The architect designs controls across Azure, AWS and GCP, defines zero trust standards, landing zones and guardrails, shapes cloud identity and network segmentation, runs threat modelling and risk assessments, oversees cloud security testing, and automates controls with Terraform, Python and policy as code.
The role also manages tools such as Defender for Cloud, CrowdStrike and Cloudflare and mentors engineers. It requires fifteen years in information security, ten of them in cloud security and architecture, knowledge of SOC 2, GLBA, HIPAA and GDPR, and certifications such as CCSP or AWS Security Specialty.