Senior Security Solutions Architect | Presales / Cloud (Remote)Irvine, CA, United States

Senior Security Architect | Cloud (Remote)

Trace3 is a leading Transformative IT Authority, providing unique technology solutions and consulting services to our clients. Equipped with elite engineering and dynamic innovation, we empower IT executives and their organizations to achieve competitive advantage through a process of Integrate, Automate, Innovate.

Our culture at Trace3 embodies the spirit of a startup with the advantage of a scalable business. Employees can grow their career and have fun while doing it!

Trace3 is headquartered in Irvine, California. We employ more than 1,200 people all over the United States. Our major field office locations include Denver, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Lexington, Los Angeles, Louisville, Texas, San Francisco.

Ready to discover the possibilities that live in technology? Come Join Us!

Street-Smart - Thriving in Dynamic Times

We are flexible and resilient in a fast-changing environment. We continuously innovate and drive constructive change while keeping a focus on the "big picture." We exercise sound business judgment in making high-quality decisions in a timely and cost-effective manner. We are highly creative and can dig deep within ourselves to find positive solutions to different problems.

Juice - The "Stuff" it takes to be a Needle Mover

We get things done and drive results. We lead without a title, empowering others through a can-do attitude. We look forward to the goal, mentally mapping out every checkpoint on the pathway to success, and visualizing what the final destination looks and feels like.

Teamwork - Humble, Hungry and Smart

We are humble individuals who understand how our job impacts the company's mission. We treat others with respect, admit mistakes, give credit where it's due and demonstrate transparency. We "bring the weather" by exhibiting positive leadership and solution-focused thinking. We hug people in their trials, struggles, and failures not just their success. We appreciate the individuality of the people around us.

Job Summary

The Sr. Cloud Security Architect is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for supporting account management teams throughout the pre and post sales lifecycle to drive cloud security solution adoption and customer success. This role partners with sales, customer success, and delivery teams to shape secure, scalable architectures across AWS, Azure, GCP and private cloud stacks, aligning cloud security capabilities with client needs and business outcomes.

As a cloud security SME, this individual leads technical discovery sessions, client workshops, and executive briefings, offering deep expertise in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP), and Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM). They play a key role in articulating risk, designing security architectures, performing technical assessments, and positioning solutions in competitive pre-sales environments.

This role is focused on technical leadershipwith an emphasis on cloud architecture design, automation, threat modeling, and remediation guidance. The SME also supports proposal development, RFP responses, and both account team and delivery partner enablement to improve win rates and strengthen client confidence in cloud security solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the pre-sales Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cloud security, providing architectural leadership across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Public cloud knowledge beyond the big three (OCP, IBM, etc.) and private cloud knowledge of solutions such as VMWare, OpenShift & OpenStack are all a plus.
• Design and articulate secure multi-cloud architectures aligned with customer goals, risk posture, and compliance requirements.
• Lead security posture assessments using established frameworks (CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-190, CSA CCM, OWASP SAMM) to uncover strategic remediation and customer program development opportunities.
• Guide the secure configuration and hardening of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments with emphasis on least privilege, secure networking, and workload protection.
• Collaborate with DevOps and platform engineering teams to embed security into CI / CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.

Security Assessments & Threat Modeling

Cloud Security Operations & Automation

Cross-Team Collaboration & Pre-Sales Leadership

Qualifications

Certifications (Preferred) :

Experience

Skills