{"id":2904637,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ccds-cybersecurity-architecture-specialist","title":"Cybersecurity Architecture Specialist","company":{"id":4451244,"name":"Cloud Consultancy","domain":"ccds.ws","url":"https://alion.io/company/ccds-ws","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":null},"role":"Security","role_family":"Security","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Riyadh, Saudi Arabia"],"countries":["SA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Defense in Depth","optional":false},{"name":"IAM","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"Zero Trust","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-28T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-28","last_verified_at":"2026-10-23T07:36:50Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":56,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":56},"description":"Location: On-site - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia\nContract/engagement: Project-based managed cybersecurity services (13-month)\nMinimum experience: 8+ years\nRole Purpose\nDesign, review, and govern secure enterprise architectures across applications, infrastructure, networks, integrations, and cloud services.\nKey Responsibilities\n· Review solution and enterprise architectures to identify security risks, control gaps, and design weaknesses.\n· Define security architecture requirements, patterns, reference designs, and technical control recommendations.\n· Review application, infrastructure, network, firewall, segmentation, API, third-party integration, and cloud designs.\n· Provide guidance on defense in depth, Zero Trust, isolation, least privilege, secure connectivity, and resilient architecture.\n· Perform architecture risk assessments and document findings, remediation actions, exceptions, and residual risk.\n· Participate in project design reviews, security approval gates, and technical change reviews.\n· Contribute to the enterprise cybersecurity architecture roadmap and ensure alignment with Ministry policies, NCA controls, and recognized standards.\n· Coordinate with application, infrastructure, network, cloud, IAM, SOC, and GRC teams to embed security throughout solution lifecycles.\nRequirements\nTechnical and Professional Requirements\n· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.\n· At least 8 years of enterprise cybersecurity architecture experience.\n· Strong expertise across application security, infrastructure security, network security, cloud security, IAM, encryption, and security integration.\n· Proven experience in security design reviews, threat/risk assessment, secure architecture patterns, and technical governance.\n· Knowledge of Zero Trust, defense in depth, secure SDLC, NCA requirements, and leading architecture/security frameworks.\nPersonal Requirements\n· Strategic and systems-oriented thinking with strong attention to technical detail.\n· Influential communication and the ability to challenge designs constructively.\n· Strong documentation, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.\n· Able to translate risk and regulatory requirements into practical architecture decisions.\nProfessional Certifications\nPreferred: SABSA, TOGAF, CCSP, CISSP, GIAC GCSA, or equivalent security architecture certification.\nApplication Note\nCandidates should clearly state their nationality, years of relevant experience, current location, notice period, and valid professional certifications in their application. Shortlisted candidates may be asked to provide supporting documents and participate in technical interviews.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2682,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Saudi Arabia","iso":"SA","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Information Security","Information Technology","Cloud Consulting & Migration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-20T07:31:22Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":15,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.425,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":56,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["conf:6","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-23T05:54:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ccds-cybersecurity-architecture-specialist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ccds-cybersecurity-architecture-specialist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-23T15:44:51Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":23632,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4451244},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4451244"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fccds-cybersecurity-architecture-specialist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fccds-cybersecurity-architecture-specialist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fccds-cybersecurity-architecture-specialist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ccds-cybersecurity-architecture-specialist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fccds-cybersecurity-architecture-specialist"}]}