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Comprising the largest skilled-labor force in North America, our employees are highly skilled and innovative, continually working to connect people and power. We’re building the infrastructure that supports the energy transition, and there are more opportunities than ever to be part of our team. Join us and build your career building a brighter future.\nImagine what you could do here. We encourage, inspire, and support our people to seize opportunities in our corporate office and with hundreds of our operating companies worldwide that provide solutions for the utility, renewable energy, electric power, industrial, and communications industries.\nQuanta actively promotes and maintains a culture of belonging where all employees can be themselves, live their values, and find opportunities to succeed. When you join our team, you join a dynamic organization in which career development is encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is prized. Come find out how our people power modern life.\nAbout this Role\nQuanta Services is seeking an IT Security Architect to join our IT Security team, reporting to the Director, IT Security. This is a senior, hands-on architecture role focused on securing the organization's multi-cloud footprint as Quanta executes a cloud-first transformation across 100+ operating companies. The role blends security architecture with forward-deployed engineering: the Architect both designs secure cloud architectures and embeds directly with cloud, data, and application teams to build and harden secure solutions - including agentic and AI-driven workloads on AWS and Microsoft Azure.\nThe Architect brings deep, current cloud security engineering expertise and is expected to produce both secure-by-design guidance and working reference implementations. This role complements the broader security architecture function: partnering with the enterprise security architecture team on threat-modeling methodology, framework governance, and cross-OpCo review standards, while providing the deep cloud-platform and data-platform engineering capability to turn those standards into deployed, defensible architectures.\nWhat You'll Do\nCombine security architecture with forward-deployed engineering: design secure cloud architectures and embed with cloud, data, and application teams to build and harden secure solutions on AWS and Azure;\nDesign and implement secure reference architectures and secure-by-design patterns for cloud workloads, including landing zones, network segmentation, identity, secrets management, and egress control;\nArchitect and secure agentic and AI/LLM-driven workloads, including secure integration patterns, API and tool/MCP security, data protection, and guardrails for AI services on AWS and Azure;\nProvide security architecture and hands-on engineering for data-platform workloads, with particular focus on Databricks (Unity Catalog, workspace/network isolation, access governance, and secure app/endpoint exposure);\nBuild working reference implementations, automation, and infrastructure-as-code that engineering teams can adopt directly, rather than design documents alone;\nArchitect secure patterns for internet-exposed cloud workloads, including WAF, application gateway, private connectivity, and egress controls;\nPartner with the enterprise security architecture function to apply threat models, control baselines, and review standards to cloud and data-platform designs;\nProvide technical guidance and mentorship to cloud and engineering teams, and communicate cloud security risk and posture to senior leadership; and\nAdhere to internal standards, policies, and procedures, and perform other duties as assigned.\nWhat You'll Bring\nRequired Education and Experience\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related field, or commensurate experience in cloud security architecture and engineering;\n7 or more years of relevant IT experience in cloud and application development;\n5 or more years devoted specifically to security, with deep, hands-on AWS security and Azure cloud security engineering experience;\nDemonstrated experience building and securing solutions on both AWS and Azure (not single-cloud); and\nHands-on experience building applications or automation, including the ability to develop agentic and AI-driven solutions on AWS and/or Azure.\nPreferred Education and Experience\nMaster's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related field preferred;\nHands-on Databricks security experience (Unity Catalog, network isolation, access governance, Databricks Apps exposure) preferred;\nForward-deployed and embedded engineering experience working directly inside delivery teams preferred;\nExperience with CNAPP/CSPM tooling (e.g., Wiz or Cortex Cloud), EDR/XDR (e.g., CrowdStrike), and modern SIEM preferred; 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We prohibit all types of discrimination and are committed to providing access and equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities. 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