Warner Bros. Discovery · 2 days ago
Security Architect
Silver Spring, MD
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$121K/yr - $225K/yr
5+ years expWarner Bros. Discovery is a leading company in the entertainment industry, known for its iconic content and beloved brands. The Security Architect role is critical for ensuring secure design and compliance within the enterprise architecture, addressing security issues, and enhancing the overall security posture of the organization.
AdvertisingBroadcastingDigital EntertainmentDigital MediaFilm ProductionMedia and EntertainmentNewsPublishing
Responsibilities
Understand technical security issues and the implications to WBD businesses and be able to communicate them to management and other business leaders
Understand emerging security technologies and determine the appropriate use within business applications
Maintain and enforce WBD’s cybersecurity policies and secure design documentation
Execute and improve on WBD’s Security architecture review process and ensure compliance for all business initiatives
Architect global programs that deploy strong security patterns and controls across applications and computing environments, while addressing security, business resiliency, privacy, and compliance frameworks
Identify security vulnerabilities and guide developers and engineers in addressing these issues
Improve architectural adoption through automation and efficiently use security tools to solve challenges at scale
Validate reference architectures for security best practices and recommend changes to enhance security and reduce risk, where applicable
Collaborate with our corporate functions including Internal Audit, Compliance, Privacy, and Sourcing to ensure that WBD maintains a strong cybersecurity posture
Ability to apply the methods, standards, and approaches for describing, analyzing, and documenting an organization's enterprise information technology (IT) architecture (e.g., Open Group Architecture Framework [TOGAF], Department of Defense Architecture Framework [DoDAF], Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework [FEAF]). Identify and address security gaps, align standards, frameworks and security with business and IT strategy
Advise technology teams and senior management of identified risks and treatment options. Define or revise security elements, standards, and solutions for various technologies to achieve optimal security posture while delivering on business goals
Host and operating systems hardening, baselines, auditing, monitoring and logging with appropriate security controls and best practices while meeting security best practices and business goals
Conduct security reviews and assessments to regularly determine the effectiveness of infrastructure and security platforms and identify areas of security risks and mitigations / improvements
Determine the appropriate use of emerging security technologies within business applications
Identify, architect / design risk mitigation strategies / solutions, exceptions for infrastructure systems that were designed without system security considerations and security policies
Maintain and enforce WBD cybersecurity policies and secure design documentation
Qualification
Required
A minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience in Security Architecture
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other related discipline or 6+ years of previous technical experience, specifically security architecture experience
Security certifications - CISSP, CISM, CISA, SANS, Security+, etc
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, specifically the ability to communicate within the context of the intended audience, whether that be senior executives or highly technical engineering resources
Detailed understanding of the threats faced directly to consumer and digital platform organizations
Working knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, Go etc.)
Proven hands-on experience securing cloud infrastructure
Proven hands-on experience securing global hybrid architectures from both a computer and network infrastructure perspective
Proven hands-on experience securing operating systems (Microsoft, Linux, MacOS etc.)
Proven hands-on experience with application security topics such as the OWASP top 10 and technical remediations required
Detailed technical experience supporting and implementing SIEM & logging tools and the ability to extract actionable intelligence from large volume aggregated log storage
Thorough understanding of Network and Compute architectures and, specifically the security aspects thereof
Thorough understanding of compliance and regulatory frameworks and how they affect architecture designs and reviews
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
An employee wellness program
Life and disability insurance
A retirement savings plan
Paid holidays and sick time
Vacation
Company
Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$17.5BKey Investors
JP Morgan
2025-12-05Acquired
2025-06-09Post Ipo Debt· $17.5B
2005-07-15IPO
Leadership Team
David Zaslav
President and CEO
Mark Thompson
CEO
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