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Senior Security Architect - TS/SCI Security Clearance
Job in
Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Maryland, 20815, USA
Listing for:
SUNAYU
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-11-08
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer, Network Security
Job Description & How to Apply Below
As a Cloud Cyber Security Engineer, you will be responsible for providing technical security expertise in securing, hardening, and maintaining compliance of cloud-based software platforms and infrastructure across multiple secure networks. You will lean on your experience with security technologies, industry best practices, vulnerability management, and risk management frameworks (RMF) to employ effective security solutions. In this role, you will collaborate closely with compliance personnel, software engineers, system engineers, system architects, and Government counterparts to perform the full spectrum of systems and cyber security engineering tasks to ensure system regulatory compliance and security posture.
Key Responsibilities- Validating and verifying system security requirements and establishing system security designs for large-scale systems, major system elements, and interfacing systems that are part of a large complex network environment with geographically distributed components.
- Recommending and developing technical solutions, products, and standards based on current and desired system security architecture.
- Effectively collaborating with other internal technical experts on a day-to-day basis.
- Communicating with Program Managers and POCs from customer organizations when necessary, regarding Security issues of significant importance.
- Participating in Program Increment Planning and related agile team activities.
- Working closely with System Engineering, Test Engineering, and Integration teams to ensure that the hardware and software architecture and implementation meets security requirements.
- Evaluating the impact of new development on the operational security posture of the system.
- Serving as a subject matter expert in security architecture to include providing advice to Program Managers, Customer technical experts, and internal program teams.
- Continuously improve engineering processes, documentation standards, implementation playbooks, migration runbooks, technical standards, and execution models to accelerate delivery, reduce rework, improve operational handoff, and lower sustainment burden.
- Multi-Cloud Security Architecture:
Design security architectures and solutions spanning AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, identifying common architectural patterns while accounting for CSP-specific capabilities and limitations. - Security Platform Integration:
Architect integrations between native security services and enterprise security platforms, including vulnerability management products, Stig evaluation, and SIEM. - Containers and Kubernetes:
Knowledge of Kubernetes and container security architectures, including image security, admission controls, secrets, identity, network policies, software supply chain security, security scanning, and runtime protection. - Design, engineer, and implement enterprise network security architecture spanning next-generation firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, web and TLS proxies, VPN and encryption services, network access control, DNS security, and east-west security controls.
- Evaluate the current network security architecture, identify gaps and improvement opportunities, estimate level of effort, assess implementation risk, and develop practical engineering plans to strengthen enterprise security capabilities.
- Provide specifications for network security architecture, evaluate and recommend emerging security technologies, and perform needs assessments to inform design and investment decisions.
- Tune and optimize security controls to reduce false positives, close coverage gaps, and improve detection and enforcement without degrading network performance or availability.
- Clearance:
Active or current Top Secret/SCI and the ability to obtain Polygraph - Ba…
Position Requirements
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