Cybersecurity Architect

SOLV Energy is a leading provider of infrastructure services to the power industry, designing, building and maintaining utility scale solar, battery storage and high voltage substation projects nationwide.

Job Description Summary:
The Cybersecurity Architect is responsible for evaluating, designing, and implementing secure solutions across SOLV Energy's enterprise technology environment, including it, operational technology (OT), cloud platforms, infrastructure, and software development initiatives.

This role partners with the Cybersecurity Team, OT Engineering, Infrastructure, and Development Teams to
strengthen enterprise security architecture, mature OT security capabilities, and advance secure-by-design practices within the software development lifecycle.

The cybersecurity architect collaborates on security strategy, translates risk into actionable roadmaps, and leads initiatives from design through implementation.

This is a senior, hands-on role requiring both architectural vision and execution capability.

This role is hybrid, with regular in-office presence in Bend, OR.

Specific location details and expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

Job Description:



*This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned

Position Responsibilities and Duties:


* Lead cross-functional security initiatives from planning through execution, ensuring measurable risk reduction.


* Lead IT/OT segmentation strategy aligned to ISA/IEC 62443 and Purdue Model principles


* Conduct architecture and infrastructure reviews, and provide security design recommendations for new and existing systems.


* Design and implement scalable security architectures across IT, OT, cloud, and application environments.


* Collaborate with the Corporate IT team, Operational Technology, and Business Applications Team to ensure that the architecture supports both existing and planned applications, with a focus on scalability and security.


* Partner with enterprise architecture and engineering teams to influence long-term technology decisions.


* Collaborate with and mentor the SecOps team in ensuring compliance with all security requirements and best practices.


* Support the development of monitoring, segmentation, and secure access strategies across enterprise environments (IT, OT, Cloud, Software Development).


* Provide education and training to process/control owners to deepen their understanding of technology control frameworks and their responsibilities.


* Design, implement, manage, report on, and monitor the overall security posture of the organization, ensuring robust protection against evolving threats.


* Manage, develop, deploy, and support advanced security solutions for both cloud and on-prem environments, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.


* Drive innovation, automation, and integrati...