Cyber Security Specialist - Santa Ana, CA
2 days ago
Job description
Position: Cyber Security Consultant V
Location: Santa Ana CA Hybrid, 2 days/week)
Duration: 11 months (possible extension)
Rate: $100/hr on w2
Responsibilities
Serves as a trusted cyber security architecture subject matter expert (SME), aligning security solutions to strategic objectives, business outcomes, and risk posture across enterprise technology domains
Partners with business, IT, and cyber stakeholders to elicit and scope end-user requirements; translates needs into clear security architecture guidance, control objectives, and design recommendations
Evaluates technical feasibility and architecture tradeoffs for proposed solutions, ensuring security requirements are practical, scalable, and consistent with enterprise standards
Owns, develops, and maintains enterprise security reference architectures, secure design patterns, and guardrails for common capabilities (e.g., identity, network security, endpoint/workload protections, application security, data protection, logging/monitoring, and secure remote access)
Establishes and governs security architecture principles aligned to recognized security engineering practices (e.g., least privilege, defense-in-depth, secure-by-design, segmentation) and drives adoption through standards, architecture review, and enablement
Conducts architecture and design reviews for new initiatives and major changes; documents security decisions, assumptions, residual risks, and compensating controls, and recommends actionable remediation paths
Defines security requirements and control objectives for platforms, systems, and services; ensures requirements are measurable, testable, and traceable through implementation and validation (while not owning delivery execution)
Collaborates with the Cybersecurity Technology team to shape product/technology roadmaps, maturity paths, and prioritized capability improvements based on threat landscape, business direction, and architecture gaps
Fosters strong relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders to understand and map business priorities, advising on how to engage security architecture to enable secure, timely outcomes
Develops and maintains security architecture documentation (standards, patterns, diagrams, decision records) and provides technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to uplift engineering and cyber team capabilities
Required Skills/Attributes:
Ten or more years of experience in information technology, information security and/or cybersecurity
Experience designing security architectures for enterprise-scale environments, including identity, network segmentation, data protection, and security monitoring
Working knowledge of control design and implementation (e.g., IAM, MFA, encryption, logging/monitoring, vulnerability management, endpoint/workload protections)
Experience partnering with engineering and infrastructure teams to deliver secure solutions in iterative delivery models; ability to translate security requirements into actionable technical designs
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and produce clear architecture artifacts (reference architectures, standards, patterns, and risk decision records)
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