Senior Staff Cloud Security Architect

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we’re dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

Position Details: 

Grainger is using public cloud to deliver new experiences to our customers through modern software development practices. Cloud is where we are investing most in new capabilities to ensure Grainger maintains a competitive advantage. We are maturing our cloud security practices through partnership with stakeholders to enable Grainger to grow in this critical area. 

The mission of the Security Architecture team is to assess risks and create designs which secure our global technology footprint. As a security architect, you will develop the patterns which support our business goals and strategies, focusing on cloud security.  

Your scope of influence includes partnering with platform, infrastructure, and product technical teams. You will influence through leading deep technical discussions with Architects and Engineers. 

You will report to the Sr. Director of Information Security Architecture & Engineering and may be based remotely or at our offices in the Chicago area. 

You Will: 

• Develop frameworks and standards to drive strong cloud security practices.  

• Define the roadmap and drive cloud security service development integrated within Grainger’s hybrid, multi-cloud environment. 

• Identify risks and prioritize remediations through threat modeling, design reviews, white boarding, and evaluating the results of security testing. 

• Partner with engineering teams to build automated tools that help Grainger optimize MTTI, MTTR while enabling the engineering experience. 

• Effectively translate Grainger’s cloud security posture and advocate for the roadmap by engaging in formal and informal interactions with senior leadership. 

You Have: 

• 7+ years of experience architecting and/or delivering cloud or cloud security solutions for AWS, Azure, and/or GCP 

• College degree or equivalent industry experience in a technical field. 

• CISSP or other security certifications. 

• Experience in defining security processes and methodologies, a proven leadership/influence style, and customer-service-oriented demeanor. 

• understanding of the concepts and practices of security for containers, serverless workloads, the cloud control plane, and immutable infrastructure. 

Rewards and Benefits: 

With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health, and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger 

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans 

• Generous paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year 

• Automatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period 

• Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations, and tuition reimbursement 

• A comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical, and social wellbeing programs 

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one’s employment.  With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.