Detection Engineer​/SIEM Analyst

Job Title:

Cloud Security Architect

Ardent, a federal government contractor, seeks a remote Cloud Security Architect to design and enforce Zero Trust security across cloud and on‑prem environments. The role aligns cloud‑native controls with enterprise Zero Trust policy models, ensures FedRAMP compliance, supports automated posture validation, and facilitates secure workload deployments.

• Lead teams in building comprehensive Zero Trust solutions encompassing users, applications and infrastructure.
• Apply an Agile SDLC and integrate Sec Dev Ops  practices throughout system development.
• Coordinate coding, unit testing, and delivery across all project phases.
• Serve as subject‑matter expert on Sec Dev Ops , CI/CD, rapid release and related automation.
• Manage, configure, administer and maintain all components of the Sec Dev Ops  environment.
• Design, develop and maintain secure deployments to AWS and multi‑cloud environments.
• Write scripts and maintain security‑embedded build environments.
• Integrate project teams’ products into Zero Trust and Sec Dev Ops  pipelines.
• Document, schedule, and execute software scans, builds and deployments.
• Document security, configuration management, source control, release and build procedures.
• Provide production‑level experience in infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, Docker, ECS, EKS, ECR, and Fargate.
• Configure and support CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git, Git Lab).
• Assist with software deployment across development, QA, staging and production environments.
• Perform Linux and shell scripting tasks.

• U.S. citizenship required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (preferred).
• 10+ years of software development experience and 7+ years of combined development and technical operations support.
• Deep knowledge of user credentials, identities, authentication, SSO, applications, workloads, endpoints, networks, data, automation, security analytics, SIEM, SOAR and threat intelligence.
• Experience with monolith and microservices architectures, containerization and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with managing polyglot technologies, frameworks and applications.
• Knowledge of CNCF‑compliant stacks (Kubernetes) and OCI‑compliant containers (Docker).
• Proven ability to manage projects end‑to‑end with minimal supervision.
• Expertise in branching, merging and archiving software throughout the development lifecycle.
• Track record managing system changes without user interruption.
• Experience with CI tools (Git, Maven, Gradle, npm, Jenkins, Git Hub Actions) and scripting.
• Gov Con experience preferred.
• Technical lead experience preferred.

All candidates must be willing to undergo a government background investigation. Ardent is an equal‑opportunity employer and will not discriminate on the basis of any protected class. Application is assessed under federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity laws.