# Sr. Cyber Security Architect

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $178,500 - $241,500
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Sr. Cyber Security Architect will provide subject matter expertise across cloud security, identity architecture, Zero Trust, network segmentation, application/container security, and enterprise monitoring capabilities.

This role requires adaptability, critical thinking, and leadership advisory skills as the position aims to fundamentally re-shape the client's cybersecurity posture.

The position requires the ability to operate with substantial independence, as the architect will spearhead multi-disciplinary technical efforts, act as an advisor to executives, and ensure the modernization and evolution of the client's technology environment.

Responsibilities:

- Lead enterprise cybersecurity architecture efforts by designing and governing integrated architectures across identity, devices, networks, applications, and data within a Zero Trust model.

- Develop secure architectures for hybrid on-prem/cloud environments, Microsoft 365, identity services, and container ecosystems.

- Establish enterprise patterns, baselines, and engineering standards.

- Ensure alignment with NIST SP 800 53, RMF, and OMB/CISA directives.

- Lead major cybersecurity modernization initiatives including defining scope, technical objectives, dependencies, schedules, and measurable outcomes.

- Implement security infrastructure upgrades; Provide secure architecture solutions for Virtual Desktop and Server Infrastructures.

- Coordinate engineering, cloud, network, application, and development teams to oversee threat modeling, secure API design, encryption, secrets management.

- Manage architectural risk; conduct impact analyses; and enforce technical quality gates.

- Leading Zero Trust-aligned enterprise architectures across identity, cloud, applications, and data AND establishing standards and baselines to ensure compliance with NIST, RMF, and federal directives.

- Performing functional testing and validation of security products.

- Designing and implementing secure file sharing and cross domain solutions.

- Directing or participating in major cybersecurity modernization efforts.

- Advancing the security of enterprise applications and platforms by embedding secure designing practices.

- Advising senior leadership on strategy and enterprise risk.

Requirements:

- Education: Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

- Experience: 10+ years of related experience

- Desired Technical skills: Experience with various Operating Systems (Linux/Windows/MacOS), various scripting languages (Python/Perl/Shell, etc); SEIM technologies (IBM Qradar, Splunk, or Elastic); on-prem and cloud implementations, IDS/IPS solutions; VMWare (ESXi, VMware vCenter, VMware VSAN, VMware View)

- Security clearance level: TS with SCI Eligibility

- US citizenship required

## Skills

### Required
- Building Architecture
- Design
- VMware
- Zero Trust
- cloud security
- identity architecture
- network segmentation
- application/container security
- enterprise monitoring

### Nice to have
- Linux
- Windows
- MacOS
- Python
- Perl
- Shell
- SEIM technologies
- IBM Qradar
- Splunk
- Elastic
- IDS/IPS solutions

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