Description
Cybersecurity Architect
Washington DC, 20001
Duties Include:
- Design and develop solutions for customer's enterprise-wide cyber systems and networks.
- Serve as the primary technical interface to the customer and perform liaison functions between customer leadership and the technical teams.
- Take complex issues and explain them simply to customer leadership while also providing tailored recommendations on courses of action.
- Evaluate complex enterprise security infrastructure and ensure the disparate components are well integrated, secure, and operating efficiently.
- Ensure system security needs are established and maintained for operations.
- Develop security requirements, perform security risk assessments, and perform systems analysis and systems design.
- Perform security test and evaluation, certification and accreditation, systems hardening, vulnerability testing and scanning.
- Perform disaster recover, and business continuity planning.
- Provide analytical support for security policy development and analysis.
- Integrate architectural analysis of cyber security features as it relates to existing systems as well as future needs and trends.
- Position may also apply advanced forensic tools and techniques for attack reconstruction.
- Perform gap analysis and provide recommendations.
- Works closely with Program Managers and Capture Managers to fully understand technical requirements and recommend solutions.
- Must be willing to travel as needed.
The Successful Architect:
- Must have strong problem solving and organization skills
- Must be able to build and maintain excellent relationships with the customer
- A self-starter with the ability to work with all levels of internal and external customer's management with minimum direct supervision
- Must have strong presentation and communication skills; this is a critical requirement for this position.
- Candidate must be able to clearly communicate technical approaches and findings.
Basic Qualifications:
- BS and 10 years of broad IT experience in information security, information systems, or related field of study
- 2+ years working as a Cybersecurity Architect supporting a large enterprise IT system
- 8+ years Cybersecurity related experience
- Experience in managing projects larger >( $100k] requiring highly-skilled and diverse integrated project teams to include multiple simultaneous activities or projects
- Experience with the Risk Management Framework (NIST SP 800-53) and Committee for National Security Systems Instruction (CNSSI 1253)
- Must be able to obtain a Position of Public Trust Clearance
- Must not have traveled outside of the US for more then a combined 6 months total in the last 5 years
- Must have lived in the United States for the last 5 years
- Position is based in Washington DC and/or Northern Virginia and does not offer relocation assistance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in technical field (Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Systems Security, Electrical Engineering, Physical Sciences)
- Outstanding organizational and oral and written communications skills
- Demonstrated ability to quickly understand new technologies and concepts
- Ability to work in a Matrix organization
- Ability to provide detailed reporting
- Certifications such as CISSP or other security certifications ie CEH, ISSAP/ISSMP, CRISC, SANS
- Familiarity with building and designing enterprise security strategies and roadmaps
- Experience with cybersecurity technologies and advanced threat management solutions
- Experience with cloud, mobile, SIEM, and open source security technologies
- Experience integrating heterogeneous operational security technologies
- Experience with Enterprise Security Architecture
- Experience leading a Security Assessment/Red Team function Experience with product security vulnerability management, responsible disclosure, publishing CVEs, and experience working with security research community
- Experience in standards frameworks CVSS, ISO, NIST, ITIL, etc
- Prior USPS experience Active USPS Clearance