About this role
Job Responsibilities
• Serves as an expert contributor in the development and implementation of cybersecurity architectures, patterns, strategies, and solutions supporting emerging technology and AI-enabled cybersecurity capabilities. • Evaluates opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence, agentic AI, automation, orchestration, analytics, and other emerging technologies to enhance cybersecurity capabilities and operating models. • Develops current-state, transitional, and future-state cybersecurity architectures that integrate capabilities across multiple cybersecurity domains and technology platforms. • Assesses opportunities to improve interoperability and automation across areas including: • Vulnerability and Exposure Management • Configuration and Security Posture Management • Identity and Access Management • Endpoint Protection and Detection • Security Operations • Asset and Technology Inventory • Threat Detection and Response • Security Analytics and Automation
• Explores how AI agents and autonomous or semi-autonomous capabilities can securely interact with cybersecurity platforms, enterprise systems, data, and workflows while maintaining appropriate security controls, governance, and human oversight. • Identifies opportunities to reduce fragmented security processes through technology integration, consolidation, automation, and intelligent orchestration. • Evaluates emerging cybersecurity technologies, platforms, tools, and architectural approaches for potential applicability within the enterprise. • Develops reference architectures, architecture patterns, capability models, technical recommendations, and roadmaps supporting future cybersecurity capabilities. • Partners with cybersecurity domain architects, engineering teams, security operations, technology teams, and other stakeholders to evaluate cross-domain architecture requirements and integration opportunities. • Assesses architectural considerations associated with machine identities, AI agents, privileged access, authentication, authorization, data access, trust boundaries, and automated actions. • Evaluates security implications associated with integrating AI capabilities into cybersecurity technologies and operational workflows. • Helps establish architectural principles and guardrails for the responsible and secure adoption of emerging AI-enabled cybersecurity capabilities. • Identifies dependencies, architectural gaps, integration challenges, technical risks, and opportunities associated with future-state cybersecurity architectures. • Develops technical assessments, architecture documentation, recommendations, and executive-level presentations communicating complex concepts to both technical and business stakeholders. • Proactively monitors technology developments and industry trends that may materially change cybersecurity architecture, operating models, or defensive capabilities. • Works effectively in an environment involving emerging technologies, ambiguity, experimentation, and rapidly changing technical capabilities. Education Minimum
• B.S. degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or another relevant technical field. Desired
• M.S., M.B.A., or advanced technical degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, or equivalent field. License/Certification Desired One or more relevant cybersecurity or technology certifications preferred, such as:
• • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) • Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) • Cloud or security architecture certifications • Vendor-specific security or AI certifications • Other equivalent cybersecurity, architecture, cloud, or emerging technology certifications
Experience Minimum
• Minimum of 6 years of combined cybersecurity, information technology, architecture, engineering, or related technical experience. • Demonstrated experience designing, evaluating, or implementing enterprise cybersecurity architectures and solutions. • Experience working across multiple cybersecurity technology domains rather than exclusively within a single security discipline. • Experience developing architecture patterns, technical strategies, integration approaches, or future-state technology designs. • Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex technologies and translate technical capabilities into practical enterprise use cases. • Experience working with multidisciplinary technical teams including architects, engineers, cybersecurity operations, developers, infrastructure teams, and technology vendors. Experience Desired Experience or demonstrated knowledge in the following areas is highly desirable:
• Generative and agentic AI: LLMs, AI agent architectures, and agent-to-system and machine-to-machine interactions • AI security and governance: secure adoption of emerging AI capabilities • Enterprise security architecture: reference architectures, design patterns, and defense-in-depth • Zero Trust architecture: covering network, platform, and identity • Security platform strategy: integration, technology rationalization and consolidation, capability modeling, and roadmapping • Vulnerability and exposure management: attack surface management, asset discovery and inventory, and risk prioritization • Security configuration and posture management: control assessment and configuration baselines • Identity and access management: authentication, authorization, identity governance, and privileged access management • Non-human identity management: machine, workload, and AI agent identities • Security operations and detection: endpoint protection, EDR/XDR, SIEM/SOAR, telemetry and analytics, threat detection and response, and automated orchestration
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Technical Competencies • Strong knowledge of cybersecurity architecture, enterprise security technologies, and emerging trends, including how AI and automation are changing architectures and operating models. • Ability to look past individual products and evaluate security as an integrated ecosystem, including the dependencies across identity, endpoints, infrastructure, applications, data, vulnerability management, security operations, and AI. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work through complex and ambiguous technical problems. • Ability to research and assess emerging technologies on your own, including where no established enterprise patterns exist yet. • Ability to turn emerging concepts into practical architecture patterns, use cases, recommendations, and implementation guidance. • Sound judgment in telling apart promising capabilities from those not yet mature, secure, or ready for enterprise use. • Strong written and verbal communication, including explaining complex security and AI concepts to both technical teams and executives. • Ability to influence technical direction and collaborate across organizational boundaries. • Ability to work well in a fast-moving, collaborative environment where requirements change. • Strong technical curiosity and a willingness to challenge traditional approaches while keeping to sound security, risk, and governance principles.
Salary Range $153,520.00 - $242,400.00 USD (Salary) • Please note that the salary information provided herein is base pay only (gross); it does not include other forms of compensation which may or may not apply to this specific position, namely, performance-based bonuses, benefits-related payments, or other general incentives - none of which are guaranteed, may be subject to specific eligibility requirements, and are wholly within the discretion of Astreya to remit. • Further, the salary information noted above is a range that consists of a minimum and maximum rate of pay for this specific position. Where an applicant or employee is placed on this range will depend and be contingent on objective, documented work-related considerations like education, experience, certifications, licenses, preferred qualifications, among other factors.
Astreya offers comprehensive benefits to all Regular, Full-Time Employees, including:
• Medical provided through UHC (PPO, HSA, Surest options) / Medical provided through Kaiser (HMO option only) for California employees only
• Dental provided through UHC
• Nationwide Vision provided by UHC
• Flexible Spending Account for Health & Dependent Care
• Pre-Tax Account for Commuter Benefit/Parking & Transit (location-specific)
• Continuing Education and Professional Development via various integrated platforms, e.g. Udemy and Coursera
• Corporate Wellness Program provided by Goomi Group
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness Days 401k Plan
• Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Critical Illness, Critical Hospital, and Voluntary Accident Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement (available 6 months after start date, capped)
• Paid Time Off (accrued and prorated, maximum of 120 hours annually)
• Paid Holidays
• Any other statutory leaves, paid time, or other ancillary benefits required under state and federal law