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Information Security Architect

Job in Reston, Fairfax County, Virginia, 22090, USA
Listing for: Idexcel
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-11-05
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, Information Security & Data Protection, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 180000 - 240000 USD Yearly USD 180000.00 240000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Hiring for a Senior Information Security Architect position primarily focusing on Threat Modeling Agentic AI Applications. This position requires deep expertise in Information Security principles including Business Security Architecture, Threat Modelling, Data Security (data encryption, masking, tokenization, data access controls), AI, Agentic AI, Identity and access management, AWS Cloud and Systems architecture. This individual must be able to architect and Threat Model complex applications to ensure the security and compliance of the cloud environments based on enterprise cloud security policies, standards, procedures and industry best practices and frameworks (NIST, OWASP, STRIDE)

Self-starter and Senior Architect who can lead the Security architecture and Threat Modeling in multiple projects encompassing IaaS, SaaS and in house built applications simultaneously by collaborating with numerous stakeholders (Product owners, Enterprise Architect)

Must Have
1. Threat Modeling
  • Experience Threat Modeling using industry frameworks and experience evaluating security controls for AI aplications and Platforms
  • Deep expertise in STRIDE, attack trees, abuse/misuse cases, data-flow and trust-boundary analysis.
  • Experience threat modeling complex applications, APIs, cloud, SaaS, and distributed architectures.
  • Strong expertise in Application/API Security, IAM/AuthN/AuthZ, Data Security, Encryption/Key Management, Dev Sec Ops , Container Security, and Cloud Security.
  • Experience translating identified threats into architectural security controls.
2 Public Cloud: AWS Experience

Deep Expertise and proven Track record in AWS Architecture and AWS Services (Compute, IAM, RDS, Resource Policies, Network, Messaging, Data Storage, CI/CD, AI/ML, ETL, Serverless, ECS/EKS). Experience with AWS security pillars, best practices and well designed architecture. Experience in AI/ML is preferable.

3 Information Security Architecture

Key experience:
Application security, Threat Modelling, API Security, Dev Sec Ops , Pipeline security, Infrastructure security, AuthN/Z, Encryption, Key Management, Data discovery and encryption, SIEM, CSPM, CWPP, Access Controls, Container Security

Industry security standards and frameworks (OWASP, NIST CIS, FED Ramp, ISO, SOX etc.).

Experience designing Architectures based on Security Standards and threat model the designs to identify issues and design mitigating controls.

Key experience:
System Design, API Driven architecture, Open Standards, stateless, Resiliency, High Availability, System and SaaS Integrations.

Nice to Have

1. AWS advanced Certification (Professional, Specialty), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) or equivalent

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