Security Architect

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**Job Description** **About Persistent** We are an AI-led, platform-driven Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what’s next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world, including 20 Fortune 50 companies and 4 of the 5 top banks in both the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem. Our disruptor’s mindset, commitment to client success, and agility to thrive in the dynamic environment have enabled us to sustain our growth momentum. Persistent has been recognized across top industry platforms for innovation, leadership, and inclusion. We reported $1,654.4M FY26 revenue with 17.4% Y-o-Y growth. We have delivered 24 sequential quarters of growth with $436.0M in Q4 FY26 revenue, up 3.2% Q-o-Q and 16.2% Y-o-Y growth. Our 27,500+ global team members, located in 18 countries, have been instrumental in helping the market leaders transform their industries. We have been recognized as the Fastest Growing IT Services Brand Globally in the 2026 Brand Finance IT Services 25 Report. We named a Leader in the Everest Group Private Equity (PE) Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026 and Software Product Engineering PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026. **About Position:** We are seeking a Security Architect to define, maintain, and govern security architecture across infrastructure, cloud, and product environments. The role is responsible for embedding securitybydesign principles throughout the technology landscape, ensuring that security policies, standards, and risk requirements are translated into scalable and practical architectural controls. You will work closely with Security Operations, IT, Cloud, Product Security, and GRC teams to design secure solutions that align with industry standards and organizational objectives. - **Role: Security Architect** - **Location: Bengaluru** - **Experience: 8 to 12 Years** - **Job Type: Full-Time Employment** **What You'll Do:** - Define and maintain security reference architectures, design patterns, and security standards across infrastructure, cloud, and product environments. - Design secure architectures for applications, platforms, integrations, APIs, and cloud services. - Ensure security-by-design principles are incorporated throughout the system development lifecycle. - Review new systems, applications, infrastructure changes, and technology initiatives to identify security risks and architectural gaps. - Conduct security architecture assessments and provide remediation recommendations. - Perform threat modeling and define appropriate security controls and mitigation strategies. - Translate security policies, standards, and frameworks into actionable technical security controls. - Define and govern controls related to identity and access management, network security, data protection, logging, monitoring, and encryption. - Design and assess cloud security architectures across Azure, AWS, GCP, and hybrid environments. - Review cloud platform configurations, IAM models, network segmentation, and cloud-native security controls. - Support secure design and implementation of DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-native architectures. - Partner with Product Security and Engineering teams to establish secure design patterns and application security controls. - Provide guidance on secure SDLC practices, API security, authentication, authorization, and data protection strategies. - Collaborate with Security Operations teams to ensure monitoring, detection, and response requirements are embedded into architectural designs. - Support logging, observability, security monitoring, and detection use case development. - Participate in architecture review boards, governance forums, and security advisory activities. - Support internal and external audits by providing architecture documentation and security control evidence. - Drive continuous improvement of security standards, architecture frameworks, and organizational security capabilities. - Act as a trusted security advisor to business, technology, cloud, and product stakeholders. **Expertise You'll Bring:** - 6 to 10+ years of experience in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Security Engineering, or Security Architecture. - Strong experience designing secure architectures across cloud, infrastructure, applications, and enterprise platforms. - Deep expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM), authentication, authorization, privileged access management, and modern identity architectures. - Strong knowledge of network security, segmentation, zero-trust principles, and secure enterprise architecture. - Experience designing and securing cloud environments across Azure, AWS, GCP, and hybrid infrastructures. - Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, container security, Kubernetes security, and Infrastructure as Code security practices. - Expertise in security frameworks and standards including ISO 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and CIS Controls. - Hands-on experience conducting security architecture reviews, risk assessments, and control evaluations. - Experience translating security requirements into practical, scalable, and business-aligned technical solutions. - Knowledge of data protection, encryption technologies, key management, and privacy-focused security design. - Experience supporting secure application development, API security, secure SDLC, and product security initiatives. - Strong understanding of logging, monitoring, threat detection, and security operations integration. - Experience working with DevSecOps practices and integrating security into CI/CD pipelines. - Knowledge of threat modeling methodologies such as STRIDE, PASTA, or similar frameworks. - Familiarity wi