AHEAD
Senior Enterprise IT Security Architect
$180K–$200K
United States · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 10 years of relevant enterprise IT security architecture, infrastructure, or cyber recovery experience.
About the job
Leads hands-on architecture, deployment, and validation of isolated recovery environments that help enterprise clients restore critical systems and identity infrastructure after destructive cyber events.
What you'll do
- Design and deploy isolated recovery environments for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems, including isolation controls and independent platform services.
- Develop Active Directory recovery processes, secure administration models, recovery runbooks, and validation procedures.
- Lead delivery teams, provide technical oversight, and advise client stakeholders on implementable recovery architectures.
What they ask for
- Proven hands-on experience designing and deploying isolated, air-gapped, or highly segmented recovery environments.
- Strong practical knowledge of network segmentation, firewalling, VLANs, routing controls, and isolation techniques.
- Deep understanding of Active Directory, including isolated forest recovery, DNS/time dependencies, and identity separation.
- U.S. Citizenship required.
Nice to have
- Experience with Privileged Access Management, phishing-resistant MFA, Privileged Access Workstation design, or immutable storage.
- Experience in ransomware or clean-room recovery, Infrastructure-as-Code, relevant frameworks, or listed certifications.
Pay
USD 180,000–200,000 per-year-salary (OTE, includes base salary and any applicable target bonus)
Tools
VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure, GCP, Rubrik, Cohesity, CyberArk
AI focus
The employer may use AI tools to review applications, analyze resumes, assess responses, or capture, transcribe, and summarize interviews. Candidates may opt out without penalty.
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