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Senior Security Architect
AnaVation LLC
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Washington, DC • District of Columbia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
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About the role
- Develop, design, and implement cloud security strategies, policies, and best practices.
- Identify security risks, areas of weakness, and specify/plan for the security tools needed to respond to security threats and breaches.
- Establish strategic security architecture direction for cloud service adoption aligned with overall business strategy.
- Evaluate existing enterprise architecture with cloud integration progress and create solutions, processes, and best practices for IAM, encryption keying (PKI, SSH), auditing and logging, continuous monitoring, and network connectivity.
- Perform Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) researching product and strategy options and presenting recommendations and analysis to government leadership.
- Develop solutions to a variety of moderate to complex security problems.
- Promote awareness of present and emerging security threats and risks and communicate with client leadership; identify and assess attack vectors and create mitigation solutions.
- Identify and develop new cloud architecture standards for secure cloud adoption and work with stakeholders to gain approval.
- Develop architecture roadmaps for delivering new capabilities across managed dependencies.
- Provide guidance on initiatives such as Zero Trust, control automation, authentication enhancements, and log management.
- Review and create documentation, processes, and technical procedures to identify and recommend improvements.
- Responsible for accrediting and maintaining security authorization (ATO) of cloud-based systems, including implementing and monitoring security controls, conducting risk assessments, performing continuous monitoring, documenting compliance, and supporting audits.
- Work alongside cross-functional teams to design diverse security controls and facilitate their translation into engineering implementation.
- Maintain awareness of new technologies and trends and bring solutions to the client.
- Able to work independently with minimal guidance.
- Other related duties assigned by the program manager and government leadership.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience with designing, testing, and deploying complex Cybersecurity solutions in an enterprise environment.
- 8+ years of experience in networking and endpoint security architecture.
- Security Architect experience with a focus in IT cloud solutions.
- Possess advanced technical proficiency.
- FedRAMP and Cloud experience (e.g., Azure, AWS, Oracle (OCI)).
- Ability to evaluate agency environments for security improvements.
- Knowledgeable on various security-related NIST publications (e.g., SP 800-53r5, SP 800-18r1, etc.).
- Knowledge of zero-trust security architecture.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a customer Top Secret (TS) clearance required; qualified candidates can be sponsored and must obtain interim TS within six months of hire.
- Certifications: CISSP required.
- Preferred: Knowledge of Splunk and other similar SIEM tools.
- Preferred: FISMA/FedRAMP responsibilities of cloud systems.
- Preferred: Implement security controls (NIST 800-53) for cloud-based systems (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), perform self-assessments, create and gather supporting artifacts, and prepare Authority to Operate (ATO) packages.
- Preferred: Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Preferred: Desirable certifications: CISSP-ISSAP, Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, SANS, other cloud certifications.
Benefits
- Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
- 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% company paid long-term and short term disability insurance
- 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
- 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
- Competitive Pay
- Generous paid leave and holiday package
- Tuition and training reimbursement
- Life and AD&D Insurance
ATS Keywords
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Hard skills
cloud security strategiessecurity architectureIAMencryption keyingcontinuous monitoringrisk assessmentssecurity controlszero trust security architecturesecurity solutionsnetwork security architecture
Soft skills
communicationindependent workstakeholder engagementproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingpresentation skillscollaborationawareness of security threatsguidancedocumentation
Certifications
CISSPCISSP-ISSAPAzure Solutions ArchitectAWS Certified Solutions ArchitectSANScloud certifications
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