Senior Security Architect

The Security Architect designs security foundations, patterns, and guardrails for Sumo Logic's infrastructure, applications, data, and cloud environments. This role bridges engineering and security, ensuring scalable and safe systems. The ideal candidate understands cloud security, identity, application architecture, detection, and compliance, translating these into simple, repeatable solutions. They will lead technically, influencing teams, setting patterns, and reducing risk and complexity.

Must Have

• Design secure architectures across cloud, applications, identity, and data flows.
• Establish and maintain reference architectures, secure patterns, and guardrails.
• Evaluate new services, workloads, and changes for security impact.
• Lead security architecture for AWS environments (IAM, networking, logging, workload protection).
• Strengthen guardrails for automated enforcement of secure configurations.
• Review infrastructure and deployment patterns for built-in security.
• Partner with AppSec, Engineering, and Product for secure development lifecycle.
• Provide architectural guidance for new features, integrations, APIs, and data flows.
• Support secure implementation of AI, automation, and emerging technologies.
• Align with SecOps for detections, logging, and incident readiness.
• Support GRC in mapping architecture to frameworks (FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001).
• Drive consensus and communicate complex security concepts in business language.
• Seven or more years in Security Engineering, Architecture, or Cloud Security roles.
• Strong experience with AWS, IAM design, network security, cloud guardrails, automated controls.
• Deep understanding of identity, secrets management, logging pipelines, and detection patterns.
• Ability to create scalable, simple, and business-aligned secure solutions.
• Strong communication skills and comfort influencing cross functional engineering groups.
• Experience with compliance frameworks and secure design expectations for SaaS companies.

Good to Have

• AWS Security Specialty or similar certification.
• Experience in cloud environments or software companies.
• Familiarity with threat modeling, AI security, container security, and Kubernetes.

Role Overview

The Security Architect is responsible for designing the security foundations, patterns, and guardrails that protect Sumo Logic’s infrastructure, applications, data, and cloud environments. This role sits at the intersection of engineering and security, ensuring our systems scale safely while supporting how the company builds, deploys, and operates. The ideal candidate understands cloud security, identity, application architecture, detection patterns, and compliance requirements, and can translate those into simple, repeatable, and enforceable solutions. They will serve as a technical leader who influences engineering teams, sets clear patterns, and reduces both risk and complexity.

Key Responsibilities

• Design secure architectures across cloud, applications, identity, and data flows.
• Establish and maintain reference architectures, secure patterns, and guardrails for engineering and IT teams.
• Evaluate new services, workloads, and changes for security impact and provide clear recommendations.
• Lead security architecture for AWS environments, including IAM design, networking, logging pipelines, and workload protections.
• Strengthen guardrails that automate enforcement of secure configurations across the environment.
• Review infrastructure and deployment patterns to ensure security is built in from the start.
• Partner with AppSec, Engineering, and Product to embed secure coding, threat modeling, and design reviews into the development lifecycle.
• Provide architectural guidance for new features, integrations, APIs, and data flows.
• Support secure implementation of AI, automation, and emerging technologies.
• Work with SecOps to ensure detections, logging, and incident readiness align with architecture.
• Support GRC in mapping architecture and controls to frameworks such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and customer expectations.
• Drive consensus across technical teams and communicate complex security concepts in clear business language.

Required Experience and Skills

• Seven or more years in Security Engineering, Architecture, or Cloud Security roles.
• Strong experience with AWS, IAM design, network security, cloud guardrails, and automated controls.
• Deep understanding of identity, secrets management, logging pipelines, and detection patterns.
• Ability to create secure solutions that are scalable, simple, and aligned with business needs.
• Strong communication skills and comfort influencing cross functional engineering groups.
• Experience with compliance frameworks and secure design expectations for SaaS companies.

Preferred Experience

• AWS Security Specialty or similar.
• Experience in cloud environments or software companies.
• Familiarity with threat modeling, AI security, container security, and Kubernetes.

What Success Looks Like

• Architecture becomes cleaner, simpler, and easier for teams to follow.
• Cloud environments become more resilient through automated guardrails and strong identity foundations.
• Detections and SecOps workflows improve because architecture is intentional and aligned.
• Compliance and audit readiness becomes faster and less painful due to strong patterns and documentation.
• Engineering teams trust and adopt the architect’s guidance as the standard for how secure systems are built.

About Us

Sumo Logic, Inc. helps make the digital world secure, fast, and reliable by unifying critical security and operational data through its Intelligent Operations Platform. Built to address the increasing complexity of modern cybersecurity and cloud operations challenges, we empower digital teams to move from reaction to readiness—combining agentic AI-powered SIEM and log analytics into a single platform to detect, investigate, and resolve modern challenges. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic for trusted insights to protect against security threats, ensure reliability, and gain powerful insights into their digital environments. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.

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