Senior Security Architect, Applied Field Engineering Office

Designs and implements secure, compliant Snowflake AI and Data Cloud architectures for customers in South Korea. The role requires extensive cloud security, networking, regulatory compliance, customer-facing architecture, and Korean and English communication experience.

About the job

Responsibilities

Scope security-related feature enhancements on behalf of customers and collaborate with Product Management and Engineering on local-market requirements.
Advise customers and engineering teams on secure, South Korea-compliant Data and AI Cloud architectures, including localization and regional access controls.
Collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Support to drive customer security feature adoption.
Partner with Product Marketing on Snowflake’s AI and Data Cloud security posture, Security Data Lake workload awareness, pipeline building, conferences, trade shows, and events.
Collaborate with Field CTO colleagues and Enterprise AI, Generative AI, Data Engineering, and Applications teams.
Share knowledge with internal and industry communities through webinars and conferences.
Build demonstrations, configure cloud-service-provider environments, and test Snowflake use cases with cloud services and external security tools.
Create security and networking reference architectures, best practices, and hardening guides for customers.
Execute audit gap assessments, control implementations, evidence collection, and annual surveillance or reassessment cycles.

Requirements

7–10+ years of hands-on information security experience, including at least 5+ years in cloud security architecture.
10+ years of industry, customer-facing, and hands-on implementation experience focused on data, privacy, governance, networking, information security, and security technologies.
Native or professional business fluency in written and spoken Korean and professional-level English.
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or Korean cloud providers including Naver Cloud and NHN.
Experience designing physical and logical network separation architectures and meeting data localization or residency requirements in regulated South Korean industries.
Advanced knowledge of IAM/RBAC, OAuth, SCIM, TCP/IP, IP routing, DNS, proxies, NAT, firewalls, TLS, and PrivateLink.
Practical exposure to AI security principles and non-human identity frameworks, including securing AI agents, orchestrators, and LLM data pipelines.
Experience with security frameworks including NIST, CIS, OWASP, and MITRE ATT&CK.
Experience presenting security and risk concepts to technical and executive audiences.
Experience selling enterprise SaaS software and working in the South Korean market.
Experience creating customer-facing architectures, demos, presentations, and whiteboard explanations.
Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Management Systems, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree.
Direct experience supporting CSAP certification at the Low, Mid, or High tier.
Experience with the K-FSI CSP Safety Evaluation, vendor risk, outsourcing due diligence, and the Regulation on Supervision of Electronic Financial Transactions.
Knowledge of South Korean cloud and privacy legislation, including Article 23-2 of the Cloud Computing Act, the Electronic Financial Transactions Act, and the Personal Information Protection Act.
AWS, Azure, or GCP security or networking certification.
SQL, Python, and API experience.
Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar infrastructure-as-code experience.
Governance, Risk, and Compliance or information security auditing experience with relevant credentials.
Experience in Korean manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services, or retail sectors.
CISSP, CISM, CISA, or K-ISMS-P Lead Auditor/Assessor credentials.
Security operations, SOC, or threat-hunting experience.
Technical pre-sales or architecture experience supporting enterprise cloud or SaaS sales cycles.