Security Architect

The role

Nebius is looking for an experienced Security Architect to join the Cyber Security organization, reporting to the Security Architect Manager.

This role focuses on designing and implementing secure architectures across corporate networks and cloud environments. You will play a key role in defining secure solutions, reviewing system designs, and ensuring security is embedded across enterprise infrastructure.

The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on expertise in network and cloud security, along with the ability to work closely with IT, Infrastructure, DevOps, and Engineering teams to drive secure and scalable implementations.

You’re welcome to work in our offices in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Your responsibilities will include to: 

• Design and implementing secure architectures across corporate networks, cloud platforms, and hybrid environments.
• Define and maintain security standards, guidelines, and reference architectures aligned with organizational requirements.
• Review and approve architecture and design of new systems, infrastructure, and network changes.
• Design and support secure enterprise network architectures, including segmentation, Zero Trust, and remote access solutions.
• Define and implement controls for firewalls, ZTNA, proxies, and network access control (NAC).
• Design secure cloud architectures including IAM, networking, and workload protection.
• Ensure proper implementation of cloud security controls such as segmentation, encryption, and monitoring.
• Define and support identity and access management controls, including SSO, MFA, and privileged access.
• Contribute to endpoint security architecture, including EDR/XDR and device hardening standards.
• Identify security risks and architectural gaps and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Participate in architecture reviews, risk assessments, and security design discussions.
• Collaborate with SOC, Vulnerability Management, IT, and Engineering teams to improve overall security posture.
• Support implementation of security architecture initiatives and improvements across the organization.

Cybersecurity Architecture

• Define and maintain the organization’s cybersecurity architecture, reference architectures, security standards, and design principles.
• Lead security architecture reviews for new systems, applications, infrastructure, and technology initiatives.
• Translate threat models, business requirements, and risk assessments into practical security controls.
• Establish security-by-design principles across cloud, infrastructure, application, and platform architectures.
• Identify architectural security gaps and drive remediation roadmaps.

Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Security

• Design and implement security architectures for Kubernetes-based environments and cloud-native platforms.
• Secure Kubernetes clusters, control planes, worker nodes, namespaces, workloads, and cluster-to-cluster communications.
• Define and enforce Kubernetes security best practices, including RBAC, workload identity, network policies, admission controls, Pod Security Standards, and secrets management.
• Secure container images and registries, including image scanning, provenance, signing, and supply chain integrity.
• Implement runtime security, workload isolation, threat detection, and monitoring for containerized environments.
• Secure Kubernetes ingress, service-to-service communications, APIs, and service mesh architectures where applicable.
• Establish security controls for container orchestration platforms across development, testing, and production environments.
• Evaluate and manage Kubernetes security risks, misconfigurations, excessive privileges, exposed services, and vulnerable workloads.

Cloud Infrastructure Security

• Lead security architecture across AWS and/or Microsoft Azure, including cloud-native and hybrid environments.
• Define secure cloud landing zones, identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption, logging, and key management.
• Implement preventive and detective security controls using cloud-native security services and centralized policy enforcement.
• Drive cloud security posture management and remediation using CSPM, CNAPP, and related technologies.
• Ensure alignment with organizational security requirements and relevant industry standards.

Secure Development and DevSecOps

• Integrate security throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), from design and coding to deployment and production operations.
• Partner with R&D, DevOps, and Platform Engineering teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and implement automated security controls, including SAST, DAST, Software Composition Analysis (SCA), secrets detection, and container image scanning.
• Establish secure coding standards, threat modeling practices, API security requirements, and secure software supply chain controls.
• Promote developer-friendly security tooling and reusable security patterns that minimize friction and accelerate delivery.
• Drive remediation of vulnerabilities and architectural weaknesses in collaboration with engineering teams.

Security Engineering and Risk Management

• Develop technical security standards, architecture patterns, and security control baselines.
• Conduct threat modeling, attack-path analysis, architecture risk assessments, and security design reviews.
• Define security requirements for identity, access, data protection, network security, workload isolation, and observability.
• Collaborate with Security Operations to improve security telemetry, detection capabilities, and incident readiness.
• Evaluate emerging security technologies and recommend solutions based on risk reduction, operational effectiveness, and architectural fit.
• Track security findings and drive measurable improvements in the organization’s security posture.

We expect you to have: 

• 6+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on cloud security, networks, and/or SDLC
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud security best practices.
• Strong hands-on experience in enterprise network security (firewalls, segmentation, VPN, proxies, NAC, etc.).
• Solid understanding of identity and access management (IAM), Active Directory / Entra ID, and access control models.
• Experience working in hybrid environments (on-prem + cloud).
• Strong understanding of security architecture principles and risk-based design.
• Experience working cross-functionally with IT, Infrastructure, DevOps, and Engineering teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

It will be an added bonus if you have:

• Experience with Zero Trust architecture and network segmentation strategies.
• Familiarity with cloud security tools (e.g., Wiz).
• Experience with enterprise identity platforms (Entra ID / Azure AD, Okta, etc.).
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, etc.).
• Experience in SaaS, cloud-native, or enterprise-scale environments.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent.
• BSc in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.