Cyber Security Solution Architect
First seen by Alion on Sep 25, 2026.
Job Summary :
The Cybersecurity Solution Architect is responsible for participating in architecting secure and scalable solutions for enterprise clients, supporting RFP/RFI processes, and driving the technical bid in competitive deals. The role requires strong knowledge across multiple cybersecurity domains, strong presentation skills, and the ability to work with customer stakeholders in assessing and designing secure solutions, and work with Delivery and Product stakeholders to build commercially viable and technically robust solutions.
Responsibilities :
- Review Architectures and Solutions and identify gaps, risks, and required security controls.
- Build Solution Architectures and high-level designs across AWS, GCP, Azure and hybrid environments.
- Recommend security controls for cloud environments, containers/Kubernetes, SaaS applications, data platforms, and AI/ML workloads.
- Collaborate with cloud architects, development teams, network/security engineers and stakeholders to validate secure design approaches.
- Present cybersecurity solutions, service offerings, and value propositions to customers and internal leadership.
- Participate in bids for Cloud Security, Technical Security Testing, Managed Detection and Response, Privacy, Risk & Compliance, Security Tools management, Identity and Access management and OT Security opportunities.
- Conduct discovery workshops with customers to understand business, technical, and security requirements.
- Contribute and respond to RFPs/RFIs responses by developing solution narratives, diagrams, estimates, and technical differentiators.
- Support pricing and commercial modeling in collaboration with finance and delivery teams.
- Keep abreast of cybersecurity trends, market changes, competitor capabilities and new cloud-native security features.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-interaction environment with multiple simultaneous engagements.
- Willingness to travel to customer locations, workshops, and industry events as required.
Profile Description :
- Strong Technical expertise in cybersecurity domains such as Cloud Security, Identity and Access Management, Application Security, Data Security, Network Security, Threat Modelling (STRIDE, PASTA etc.), Zero Trust, Cyber Defense or Security Architecture best practices.
- Minimum 6+ years as a Cyber Security Solutions Architect.
- Understand compliance and security frameworks such as ISO 27001, HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC2, GDPR, PDPA, DPDP, CSA CCM, CIS Benchmarks.
- Hands-on understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and native cloud security services, along with ability to architect end-to-end cloud security solutions.
- Ability to translate the business and compliance requirement into actionable security controls based on the risk appetite of the organization.
- Proven deep expertise and experience in Cybersecurity Assessments and Solutioning across all cyber domains.
- Strong analytical, communication and presentation skills with experience pitching cybersecurity services and solutions.
- Experience in proposal creation, pricing estimation and cybersecurity RFP/RFI response management is a plus.
- Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, and cloud security certifications are a plus.
Skills
Cyber Security, Solution Architect, Security, Security Architect, RFP, Cloud Security, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, ISO