Lead Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Architect

City/State: Colorado Springs, CO USA

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Full-Time, Salary/Exempt, on-site in Colorado Springs, CO

Annualized Salary Range: $150,000 – $185,000 commensurate with experience.

About Us: Caliola is a woman-owned small business that is improving and protecting our Nation's way of life through secure collaboration and resilient communications. Our engineers, subject matter experts, and veterans are developing and delivering trusted solutions for mission-critical communications. We seek teammates who share our core values: I3 for C3 - Insight, Innovation, and Integrity for Command, Control, and Communications.

These values guide how we work every day. At Caliola, you will find technically challenging, mission-focused work within a flexible and collaborative culture that is uncommon in the defense industry. We offer flexible PTO, subsidized health insurance, 401(k) matching, professional development, and a competitive compensation structure designed to support long-term growth.

Our performance has driven rapid growth and national recognition, being named twice to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ and inclusion on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies. We have also been recognized as a Colorado Company to Watch, a Colorado Biz Top Company in Aerospace & Defense, and the #2 Gazette's Best Workplace (medium size) in 2025.

Headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO, we operate in a leading aerospace and defense hub with proximity to major military installations. Set against the Rocky Mountains, the region offers year-round outdoor recreation and a high quality of life for professionals and families considering relocation.

As a part of our selection process, we ask all applicants to complete a short, 10–12-minute survey from Culture Index. This is a survey, not a test; no passing or failing. The purpose of this survey is to identify your unique strengths as they relate to our open positions. Please copy and paste the following link into a separate browser window to complete:

Caliola is seeking a highly capable Lead Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Architect who reports to the Director of Infrastructure Operations to support the design, modernization, security, and governance of our internal infrastructure, enterprise networks, cloud environments, and regulated systems.

This role will serve as a hands-on technical anchor as Caliola scales, building the secure architecture needed to support new programs, mature our technical infrastructure, operate secure spaces, sustain CMMC Level 2 compliance, and design secure AI capabilities. This person leads the architecture, documentation, configuration management, and risk mitigation efforts supporting the continued growth and maturity of Caliola's infrastructure and cybersecurity capabilities.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable moving between high-level architecture decisions and direct technical execution across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, network, endpoint, cybersecurity, AI, and compliance environments.

This role requires deep technical capability across enterprise networking, cybersecurity architecture, Microsoft GCC High / Azure Government, secure monitoring, disaster recovery, and regulated government systems. The successful candidate will work closely with engineering, cybersecurity, compliance, facilities, and program management to ensure Caliola's systems remain secure, resilient, compliant, and ready for growth.

• Design, build, and maintain secure, resilient, and scalable core infrastructure across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and multi-site environments. Drive modernization initiatives including cloud integration, virtualization, software-defined networking, LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, VPN, network segmentation, and Infrastructure as Code automation.
• Evaluate, integrate, and govern enterprise network technologies, including routers, switches, firewalls, IDS/IPS, NAC, load balancing, encryption, wireless, and secure connectivity solutions.
• Implement, configure, tune, and improve security monitoring technologies, including endpoint protection, SIEM/SOAR, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, logging, alerting, dashboards, and incident-response integrations.
• Architect, administer, and support Microsoft GCC High, Azure Government, and hybrid commercial cloud environments in accordance with federal security requirements. Govern foundational systems, backup environments, identity, endpoint, collaboration, monitoring, and data protection capabilities.
• Implement and govern secure cloud and hybrid architectures using Microsoft Entra , Conditional Access, MFA/PIM, Intune, Purview, AvePoint, and related tools to support resource protection, access control, monitoring, and compliance.
• Secure and harden foundational IT components, including software development environments, databases, endpoints, servers, cloud resources, and network devices by applying DISA STIGs, configuration baselines, vulnerability…