Senior Security Architect

NVIDIA

Senior Security Architect designing and implementing security systems for NVIDIA's AI computing infrastructure. Collaborating with various teams to protect critical infrastructure and intellectual property.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $184,000 - $356,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber SecurityDockerFirewallsKubernetesLinuxNFSRealmRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and enforce security controls, systems, and policies for cluster infrastructure of new NVIDIA hardware.
Identify, assess, and reduce cybersecurity risks; report major risks clearly to leadership.
Develop and lead incident response and disaster recovery plans.
Investigate security incidents and drive root-cause analysis.
Ensure systems meet IT, legal, regulatory, and information security standards.
Improve security governance, documentation, and audit readiness.
Train peers and users on practical security standard methodologies.
Work with infrastructure, networking, storage, OS, firmware, and application teams to harden systems.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience with 8+ yrs of industry experience
Experience securing large-scale Linux infrastructure
Proven understanding of risk management, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and access control
Experience with incident response, disaster recovery, and breach handling
Knowledge of compliance, governance, and data protection requirements
Experience in programming secure computing environments, with proficiency in C/C++
Experience with system level threat modeling, risk management frameworks and risk mitigation techniques.
Experience with compute and networking systems security architecture and engineering
Experience in securing AI agents using sandboxing technologies and AI-based threat detection (e.g. Mythos)
Experience with modern authentication and identity frameworks such as OAuth 2.1, OIDC, Kerberos, FIDO2/WebAuthn.
Experience with Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID, including cross-realm trusts and identity federation (SCIMv2)
Experience managing centralized Linux identity (FreeIPA/RHEL IdM/SSSD), including PKI lifecycle management and Host-Based Access Control.
Linux kernel hardening (SELinux/AppArmor) and observability (eBPF).
Developing secure software in Rust, prioritizing memory safety
Experience hardening HPC schedulers and storage, Slurm alongside parallel filesystems like Lustre and NFS.
Experience securing containerized workloads (Docker, Enroot, Kubernetes).
Knowledge of high-speed fabric security like InfiniBand PKeys/MKeys.
Zero Trust, ZTNA, VRFs, VLANs, performance-optimized firewalls.
Use of advanced vulnerability management and supply chain mitigation (CVSS 4.0, SBOM).

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

Linux infrastructure securityC/C++ programmingincident responsedisaster recoveryrisk managementthreat modelingvulnerability managementsecure software development in Rustcontainer security (Docker, Kubernetes)HPC scheduler hardening (Slurm)

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationtrainingroot-cause analysisdocumentationaudit readiness