About the role

  • Security Architect engineering enterprise and cloud security controls for a civilian federal agency. Seeking skilled professionals familiar with Zero Trust Architecture and vulnerability management.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement secure architecture solutions across cloud, on Prem, and hybrid environments.
  • Develop security standards, policies, and technical guidelines aligned with organizational and regulatory requirements.
  • Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments for new and existing systems.
  • Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to ensure security requirements are integrated into system designs.
  • Implement, and operate ICAM solutions, including identity lifecycle management, authentication, authorization, and access governance.
  • Implement Zero Trust Architecture in alignment with NIST SP 800-207, emphasizing continuous verification, least privilege, and identity-based access.
  • Deploy and support SASE / SSE capabilities, including ZTNA, Secure Web Gateway, CASB, and Firewall-as-a-Service.
  • Support PIV smart card and certificate-based authentication across users, devices, applications, and cloud environments.
  • Operate, and maintain PKI and certificate management services, including certificate issuance, renewal, revocation, and automation.
  • Engineer and secure cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP), focusing on identity, networking, logging, and secure configurations.
  • Perform vulnerability scanning, risk prioritization, and coordination of remediation activities.
  • Support patch management efforts by validating system configurations and verifying remediation of security findings.
  • Monitor security and identity events using SIEM and related tools; investigate and respond to security incidents.
  • Participate in incident response activities, including alert triage, investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery.
  • Develop and maintain incident response playbooks, runbooks, and post-incident documentation.
  • Develop and maintain security engineering documentation, standards, and operational runbooks.
  • Collaborate with IT, cloud, and application teams to integrate security controls into system designs and CICD pipelines.
  • Provide compliance and audit support, including technical evidence for ATO, continuous monitoring, and remediation activities.

Requirements

  • Strong knowledge of network security, application security, and cloud security architecture.
  • Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and their native security services.
  • Expertise in security frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Benchmarks, OWASP, and Zero Trust.
  • Proficiency with identity and access management (IAM), SSO, MFA, and federation technologies.
  • Solid understanding of encryption, PKI, firewalls, WAFs, SIEM, EDR, and vulnerability management tools.
  • Proven experience in identifying and remediating vulnerabilities in both Linux and Windows environments with a strong understanding of compliance requirements.
  • Proficiency in using security tools such as Nessus, ORCA, AWS Security Hub, Azure Security Center, Google Cloud Security Command Center, and other vulnerability scanning tools.
  • Familiarity with Red Hat Satellite server, WSUS, IBM BigFix or other similar toolsets.
  • Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, Ansible for automation of security remediation tasks.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
  • Must be a US citizen.
  • Must be able to obtain public trust prior to starting work.

Benefits

  • full benefits

Job title

Security Architect

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$NaN per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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