Cloud Architect jobs in United States, Illinois, Chicago

Essential Responsibilities:

• Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize systems, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security solutions with business objectives.
• Partner with peers and internal teams to drive security initiatives, contribute to cross-functional projects, and at times co-lead efforts to strengthen security posture.
• Analyze and resolve security challenges by adapting standard processes and exploring alternative approaches to address complex threats.
• Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team through informed decision-making, with a potential impact on other teams.
• Collaborate with other engineers to gather and incorporate feedback, driving continuous improvements in security processes.

Expected Qualifications:

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

What do you need to bring:

A minimal of 5 years of experience working in a cybersecurity related position.

Experience working with cloud-native security tools, AWS and GCP Infrastructure design, operation, and deployment, container and host security

Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Knowledge of Kubernetes, terraform, source code management, infrastructure and application security tools such as CSPM, SAST, DAST, API security, DDOS and WAF

Development experience is a plus.

Preferred certifications:

Cloud Security related certifications (AWS, GCP)

Degree in Computer Science or related field.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Join the fastest growing team where experience meets cutting-edge solutions

• Build and cultivate strong customer relationships, driving business growth within the region.

• Partner with the core sales team to align customer strategies and engagements with Cortex and Cloud business objectives.

• Take full ownership of leading strategic sales campaigns, sales forecasting, utilizing in-depth knowledge of sales cycles from initial contact through procurement.

• Engage in deep technical discussions beyond standard sales presentations and pitches; while translating complex technical cybersecurity solutions into clear business value propositions for customers.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including sales engineers, to provide tailored customer-centric solutions.

• Partner with Alliances to develop joint strategies, enhance customer engagement and deliver innovative solutions for existing and prospective clients.

• Travel domestically as needed to meet with customers and attend key business events.

Your Experience

• 3+ years of field sales experience focusing on key customer accounts and delivering value to Enterprise or Major-level accounts in the cybersecurity industry.

• Extensive platform selling experience in complex sales with multiple buying centers.

• Experience selling SIEM, EDR, XDR, SOC and SOAR solutions is highly preferred.

• Established trusted relationships with CIOs and CISOs with the ability to influence and drive strategic conversations

• Expertise in applying complex solution sales methodologies to drive results.

• Experience working with channel partners and a deep understanding of a channel-centric go-to-market strategy.

• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment while collaborating effectively with sales engineers and cross-functional teams.

• Experience operating in a continuous adoption, expansion, and upsell sales motion within a matrixed sales organization is preferred

• Willingness to travel domestically as necessary to meet business needs.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $212800 - $292600/yrThe offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

This role may require travel to and from Palo Alto Networks, Inc. business meetings and events and requires reliable transportation to do so. If a hire chooses to drive in connection with company business, the hire for this role must maintain a valid driver’s license.

This job is responsible for leading evaluations of cyber security threats and enhancing defensive capabilities to reduce the bank's risk of exposure. Key responsibilities include conducting analyses of the threat environment and threats to the bank, including post incident analysis, applying a multi-faceted situational awareness of cyber security process to protect against threats, and implementing proactive defensive actions for the security, continuity, and confidentiality of information.

Key Responsibilities
• Control Ownership & Governance:
• Own and manage malware controls related to cloud and mobile platforms. Ensure controls are effective, measurable, and aligned with enterprise risk tolerance.
• Threat Management & Response:
• Collaborate with incident response teams to triage and respond to malware threats targeting cloud and mobile environments. Support post-incident reviews and drive improvements.
• Technology Risk Oversight:
• Identify and assess risks associated with cloud and mobile malware threats. Partner with risk and oversight teams to implement mitigation strategies.
• Operational Integration:
• Work across operational teams to integrate malware controls into existing workflows and technologies. Ensure seamless execution and reporting of control effectiveness.
• Metrics & Reporting:
• Develop and maintain operational metrics and dashboards to track control performance. Provide regular updates to leadership and stakeholders.
• Collaboration & Communication:
• Engage with cross-functional teams including GIS, cloud engineering, mobile development, and enterprise risk. Communicate technical findings and strategic recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Continuous Improvement:
• Stay current with emerging malware tactics targeting cloud and mobile platforms. Lead initiatives to enhance detection, prevention, and response capabilities.

Minimum 5 Years of Experience

• 5+ years of experience in malware analysis and incident response, with a focus on cloud and/or mobile platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud service provider security models (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with mobile malware analysis (Android/iOS), including static and dynamic techniques.
• Familiarity with cloud-native security tools and mobile threat defense platforms.
• Ability to assess malware threats and extract Indicators of Compromise (IoCs).
• Strong documentation and reporting skills.
• Experience working in large enterprise environments with cross-functional teams.

Desired Qualifications
• Experience with sandbox technologies and virtualized analysis environments.
• Knowledge of mobile app reverse engineering tools (e.g., JADX, Frida, MobSF).
• Familiarity with cloud logging and monitoring tools (e.g., CloudTrail, Azure Monitor).
• Experience with SIEM platforms and event correlation.
• Knowledge of forensic artifacts in cloud and mobile environments.
• Experience with mobile security products like Lookout, CrowdStrike Mobile
• Experience with Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, AWS Guard Duty, Google Cloud Security Center)

Certifications (Desired but not Required)
• CCSP, CCSK, GPCS, GMOB, GCIH, GREM, GCFA, GCFE, CISSP, or equivalent certifications.

Skills:

• Cyber Security

• Data Privacy and Protection

• Problem Solving

• Process Management

• Threat Analysis

• Access and Identity Management

• Business Acumen

• Interpret Relevant Laws, Rules, and Regulations

• Risk Analytics

• Stakeholder Management

• Data Governance

• Data and Trend Analysis

• Incident Management

• Information Systems Management

• Technology System Assessment

Essential Responsibilities:

• Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize systems, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security solutions with business objectives.
• Partner with peers and internal teams to drive security initiatives, contribute to cross-functional projects, and at times co-lead efforts to strengthen security posture.
• Analyze and resolve security challenges by adapting standard processes and exploring alternative approaches to address complex threats.
• Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team through informed decision-making, with a potential impact on other teams.
• Collaborate with other engineers to gather and incorporate feedback, driving continuous improvements in security processes.

Expected Qualifications:

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Cloud Security knowledge and best practices in GCP, AWS environments.
• Cloud security posture management understanding to provide remediation advisory.
• Cloud security evidence collection and forensics.
• Experience withinfrastructure-as-codetools like CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Hands-on experience with Docker containers in Kubernetes environments
• Collaborative mindset to work along cross-functional teams.

• Cloud native security tools management.
• Manage CSPM solution. Preferably Wiz.
• Understanding on vulnerability management on cloud environments (such as CSPM findings, configuration findings, etc.).
• Industry cybersecurity standards (such as PCI, ISO 27000 Family, NIST, CIS, SOC 2, etc.)
• Basic DFIR processes in cloud environments.
• Collaborative mindset.
• Agile methodology knowledge and understanding.

• Onboarding Cloud accounts (such as Azure, AWS & GCP) – this includes access grant, enabling policies, configuring baselines, configuring agents (if applicable), verifying health status
• Administer CSPM solution – this includes managing user roles, audit logs, manage API access
• Discover cloud assets – this includes gaining visibility and manage cloud assets
• Manage Security policies and Benchmarks – this includes configuring CSPs specific security policies, industry specific compliance policies (such as PCI), benchmarks standards (such as CIS, NIST, etc.)
• Respond to alerts – this includes monitor, investigate and triage incidents based on actionable alerts
• Manage OS hardening – this includes administer operating system baseline and hardening
• Integration with 3rd party systems – this includes manage changes, requests on integration with other systems (such as ITSM and CI/CD Tools)
• Remediation guidance – this includes providing recommendations to the stakeholders to fix the potential threats, applying configurations on the systems to maintain IT security regulatory compliance and standards
• Manage reports – this includes providing reports to the business and relevant stakeholders

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please