# Security Architect

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Reston, VA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $154,050.00 - $278,475.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Security Architect to join our team, supporting the creation of an Enterprise AI Platform and Digital Services Framework for a Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE) client.

As a Security Architect, you will provide technical security expertise in a primarily cloud infrastructure, focusing on leading teams through the Risk Management Framework to system ATOs across multiple domains.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing expert guidance to enable streamlining ATO management processes with engineering solutions and best practice efficiencies

- Leading solution architecture and implementation of streamlined security, governance, and accreditation support model, including automation of compliance processes

- Providing expert technical guidance to team members while employing security solutions

- Directly interacting with client CIO and Security POCs

- Creating, improving, and maintaining security policies and procedures

- Providing operating system hardening and system patching guidance based on DISA STIGs and NIST publications

- Analyzing security incidents and providing recommendations for resolution

- Managing individual project priorities, deliverables, and deadlines

- Fostering an environment of collaboration with team members to provide quality service and product to our customer

Requirements:

- BS degree and 15+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 15+ years of prior relevant experience

- An active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain/maintain a Polygraph

- At least one of the following DoD 8570.01-M IASAE Level II certifications: CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, CISSP-ISSEP, CSSLP, or CASP+ CE

- Familiarity with NIST Special Publications, e.g., NIST SP 800-27, 30, 37, 53, 60

- Experience with CNSS publication CNSSI 1253

- Experience supporting DoD/IC systems through the entire Risk Management Framework Plus (RMF) process to ATO

- Experience with incident response plans, plans of actions and milestones (POA&Ms), risk management plans, and vulnerability management plans

- Experience establishing and maintaining a System Security Engineering (SSE) management process to integrate security and privacy controls into complex hardware and software systems

- Experience managing a team of Cyber Security Engineers (CSEs) and Information System Security Officers (ISSOs)

- Experience using Tenable Security Center and all components

- Experience with technologies such as Linux, Windows, firewalls, gateways, proxies, VPCs, and public key infrastructure

- Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills

Preferred qualifications:

- An active TS/SCI clearance with Poly

- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) certification

- Successfully achieved ATO under RMF+ across multiple domains

- Experience working in Agile and DevOpsSec environments

- Experience with big data applications

- Experience with Jira and Confluence

- Experience with OIDC or Oauth2

- Experience with any of the following technologies: Kubernetes, Rancher, or Cloudera containerization technologies, CI/CD tools like Jenkins or Gitlab, Elasticsearch, Active Directory, SQL and NoSQL databases, scripting languages like bash, python, or PowerShell

## Skills

### Required
- cloud infrastructure
- Risk Management Framework
- security technologies
- industry best practices
- NIST Special Publications
- CNSS publication CNSSI 1253
- DoD/IC systems
- incident response plans
- System Security Engineering
- Tenable Security Center
- Linux
- Windows
- firewalls
- gateways
- proxies
- VPCs
- public key infrastructure

### Nice to have
- Agile
- DevOpsSec
- big data applications
- Jira
- Confluence
- OIDC
- Oauth2
- Kubernetes
- Rancher
- Cloudera
- CI/CD tools
- Elasticsearch
- Active Directory
- SQL
- NoSQL
- bash
- python
- PowerShell

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