Director Cybersecurity - Cloud Security Architecture at AT&T

This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. Our Chief Security Office ensures that our assets are safeguarded through truthful transparency, enforce accountability and master cybersecurity to stay ahead of threats. Bring your bold ideas and fearless risk-taking to redefine connectivity and transform how the world shares stories and experiences that matter. When you step into a career with AT&T, you won’t just imagine the future-you’ll create it.

We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Director of Cloud Security Architecture to lead a team of approximately 15 security architects and engineers responsible for securing hybrid cloud environments, with a particular emphasis on AWS Outposts. This leader will define and drive the cloud security architecture strategy, ensuring secure design, deployment, and operation of workloads across on-premises and cloud-integrated platforms.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in cloud and hybrid infrastructure security, strong people leadership, and the ability to influence enterprise-wide security standards. This role will partner closely with infrastructure, platform engineering, application teams, risk, compliance, and operations to build scalable, resilient, and secure architectures that support business growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team of approximately 15 cloud security architects and engineers, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Define and execute the enterprise cloud security architecture roadmap for hybrid cloud environments.
• Serve as the primary security architecture leader for AWS Outposts, including secure deployment patterns, controls, governance, and operational security requirements.
• Establish security reference architectures, design patterns, and guardrails for workloads deployed across AWS Outposts, AWS native services, and interconnected on-premises environments.
• Partner with cloud platform, infrastructure, networking, and application development teams to embed security into architecture and engineering practices.
• Oversee the design and implementation of security controls including:
• Identity and access management
• Network segmentation and zero trust principles
• Encryption and key management
• Logging, monitoring, and detection
• Vulnerability and configuration management
• Data protection and workload isolation
• Ensure cloud and hybrid architectures align with regulatory, audit, and internal security requirements.
• Review and approve cloud and hybrid solution designs, providing risk-based guidance and architectural direction.
• Drive adoption of security automation, policy-as-code, and infrastructure-as-code security practices.
• Collaborate with incident response, cyber defense, and operations teams to improve visibility, response readiness, and resilience in hybrid cloud environments.
• Develop metrics and reporting to measure architecture maturity, risk reduction, and control adoption.
• Act as a senior advisor to technology and business leaders on cloud security risks, strategy, and investment priorities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, infrastructure security, or cloud security.
• 5+ years in a security architecture leadership role with direct people management responsibility.
• Experience leading teams of architects and engineers in enterprise-scale environments.
• Deep expertise in AWS security architecture, including IAM, VPC design, KMS, CloudTrail, Config, Guard Duty, Security Hub, and related services.
• Strong experience with AWS Outposts and securing hybrid cloud deployments spanning on-premises and AWS environments.
• Experience designing security controls for compute, storage, networking, containers, and virtualization platforms in hybrid settings.
• Strong understanding of security architecture frameworks, risk management, and control design.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive cross-functional architectural decisions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect, or equivalent.
• Experience with zero trust architecture and modern identity security models.
• Familiarity with container and Kubernetes security in hybrid environments.
• Experience supporting regulated environments and security compliance frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of SIEM, EDR, CSPM, CWPP, and cloud-native security tooling.
• Experience building security standards and reference architectures for large enterprises.

Leadership Expectations

• Inspire, mentor, and scale a high-performing security architecture team.
• Balance strategic planning with pragmatic execution.
• Foster strong cross-functional relationships and a security-first engineering culture.
• Translate complex technical risks into clear business recommendations.
• Drive accountability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Success Measures

• Secure and scalable adoption of AWS Outposts and hybrid cloud services.
• Increased consistency in cloud security architecture standards and implementation.
• Reduced architectural risk through proactive design reviews and governance.
• Improved automation, visibility, and policy enforcement across cloud environments.
• Strong team engagement, capability growth, and delivery outcomes.

Supervisor:

• Yes

Our Director-Cybersecurity earns between $188,100 - $282,100. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Indvidual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness programs
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories,
• AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone

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Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

• Dallas, Texas, USA:NC:Charlotte / Ibm Dr
• Adm:8505 Ibm Dr

Salary Range:

$188,100.00 - $316,000.00

It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.