# Principal IAM-Zero Trust Solutions Architect **Company**: Leidos **Location**: Odenton, MD **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $154,050.00 - $278,475.00 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Odenton-MD/Principal-IAM-Zero-Trust-Solutions-Architect_R-00193593?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_55b0ad6e-362 ## Description Serve as a principal technical leader for the Leidos Mission Operations Division CTO Team supporting the Defense Information Systems Agency and other Department of Defense and federal customers. The Principal IAM / Zero Trust Solutions Architect will lead the development and integration of complex enterprise technology and cybersecurity solutions spanning identity, cloud, infrastructure, networking, automation, security, and mission systems. **Primary Responsibilities:** - Lead the architecture, design, and integration of complex enterprise infrastructure and cybersecurity solutions across cloud, on-premises, classified, and mission environments. - Develop integrated IAM and Zero Trust solution architectures aligned with customer mission requirements and applicable Department of Defense, NIST, and federal cybersecurity guidance. - Assess existing technology environments, identify architectural and operational gaps, and develop modernization strategies and implementation roadmaps. - Design and integrate identity, cloud, infrastructure, networking, security, automation, monitoring, and related enterprise capabilities. - Apply IAM principles including authentication, authorization, federation, identity lifecycle management, privileged access, PKI, and access policy as part of broader enterprise solutions. - Incorporate Zero Trust principles such as least privilege, continuous verification, segmentation, policy enforcement, and risk-based access into solution architectures. - Evaluate commercial and government technologies, conduct technical trade studies and Analyses of Alternatives, and develop solution recommendations. - Define architectural interfaces, integration dependencies, implementation approaches, and transition strategies across multiple technical domains. - Develop architecture diagrams, technical approaches, implementation plans, test strategies, modernization roadmaps, and customer briefings. - Provide technical leadership and direction to multidisciplinary engineering and integration teams. - Engage directly with government customers and mission stakeholders to understand technical challenges, shape requirements, and develop practical solutions. - Research emerging enterprise, cybersecurity, cloud, IAM, and Zero Trust technologies and assess their applicability to customer missions. - Support technical demonstrations, solution development, capture, proposals, and on-contract growth activities. **Basic Qualifications:** - Significant experience designing, integrating, and modernizing complex enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, or mission technology environments. - Ability to translate customer mission and technical requirements into architectures, implementation approaches, and modernization roadmaps. - Experience evaluating technologies, conducting technical trade studies or Analyses of Alternatives, and developing solution recommendations. - Experience leading complex technical integrations across multiple infrastructure and cybersecurity domains. - Strong working knowledge of enterprise IAM/ICAM concepts including authentication, authorization, federation, identity lifecycle management, privileged access, PKI, directory services, and access policy. - Experience incorporating IAM capabilities into enterprise cloud, infrastructure, or cybersecurity solutions. - Understanding of Zero Trust principles and the interaction among identity, devices, applications, networks, workloads, data, and security policy. - Familiarity with Department of Defense, NIST, RMF, and related federal cybersecurity frameworks and requirements. - Experience with cloud and hybrid enterprise environments such as AWS, Azure, or comparable platforms. - Broad understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies including networking, virtualization, automation, configuration management, monitoring, and cybersecurity technologies. - Familiarity with modern automation, DevSecOps, containers, and infrastructure-as-code concepts. - Ability to understand and define integration requirements across infrastructure, cybersecurity, IAM, cloud, and operations technologies. - Experience providing technical leadership to multidisciplinary engineering teams. - Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to government customers, technical teams, and senior stakeholders. - Strong written, verbal, technical briefing, and customer-facing communication skills. - Experience developing technical architectures, solution concepts, recommendations, or implementation plans. **Preferred Qualifications:** - Experience supporting Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, or other federal mission environments. - TS/SCI eligibility or active TS/SCI clearance. - Experience architecting solutions across classified, multi-domain, hybrid-cloud, or distributed enterprise environments. - Experience with enterprise IAM platforms such as Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Okta, Ping Identity, SailPoint, CyberArk, RadiantLogic, or comparable technologies. - Experience with Zero Trust modernization initiatives or applying Zero Trust principles within enterprise architectures. - Experience with automation, infrastructure-as-code, DevSecOps, or configuration-management technologies. - Experience with enterprise network, monitoring, observability, or cybersecurity platforms. - Experience supporting federal security accreditation and authorization processes. - Experience conducting vendor technology evaluations or Analyses of Alternatives. - Experience supporting capture, proposals, technical solution development, or customer demonstrations. **Education, Experience, Clearance & Certification:** - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field and approximately 15+ years of relevant professional experience. - Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a technical degree. - Active Department of Defense Secret clearance or higher. - Department of Defense 8140-aligned cybersecurity certification appropriate to the role, such as Security+ CE or higher. **Pay Range:** $154,050.00 - $278,475.00 ## Skills ### Required - Identity and Access Management (IAM) - Zero Trust principles - cloud environments - cybersecurity solutions - enterprise architecture - automation - DevSecOps - infrastructure-as-code - configuration management - networking - virtualization - monitoring - observability - cybersecurity platforms - federal cybersecurity frameworks ### Nice to have - TS/SCI clearance - Microsoft Entra ID - Active Directory - Okta - Ping Identity - SailPoint - CyberArk - RadiantLogic - Zero Trust modernization initiatives - configuration-management technologies - enterprise network platforms - federal security accreditation and authorization processes --- Source: [Apply at leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://leidos.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Odenton-MD/Principal-IAM-Zero-Trust-Solutions-Architect_R-00193593?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)