SECURITY ARCHITECT

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SECURITY ARCHITECT

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SUMMARY:

Zermount Inc. is seeking looking for a highly talented, technical hands-on Security Architect to help accelerate our Security Program for a client in the Government Sector. You will use your exceptional security knowledge and hands-on technical knowledge and skills to help support our client with developing, reviewing, and modernizing IT technology and secure and compliant architectures and implementations.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop & maintain the Enterprise Security Architecture (ESA) strategy, roadmap & capabilities matrix, outlining capabilities (current & future: tools, technologies & processes), with path to achieve optimal maturity.
• Create & maintain the ESA diagrams depicting capabilities, identify duplicates, gaps & provide actionable recommendations.
• Update and maintain the client's Zero Trust strategy & develops the Zero trust Architecture (ZTA) implementation plan & integrates into the roadmap.
• Leads assessments & evaluations of new or replacement capabilities and tools to meet future or changing needs. This includes tool functionality and complexity of implementation, compliance with client & NIST requirements, & interoperability with existing or planned capabilities.
• Plans & conducts Proof of Concept (PoC) deployments within the client enterprise and/or in external vendor environments.
• Understands & evaluates business, technical & functional requirements, translating mission goals & operational directives into actional recommendations.
• Understand requirements, use cases, implementation challenges, client road maps & operational pain points
• Designs solutions for existing & ongoing implementations & supports implementation efforts. This includes tool evaluation, adoption, implementation & phase-out; system integration development and implementation; and feature/content development.
• Develops schedules, work breakdown structures (WBS's) & project schedules.
• Collaborates with internal & external teams & ensures client & NIST compliance.
• Serves as a Team Lead and provides services as a cross functional team member - support other Task Areas as required.
• Ensures all SLA's are met.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• High level of attention to detail, needs minimal guidance, effective verbal, and written communications.
• Equally adept at strategic planning and operational/technical level.
• Able to adapt to new and changing requirements or priorities and manage work and resources accordingly.
• At least 10 years of hands-on technical IT and cybersecurity experience. To include experience with:
  • LAN/WAN, WAF/CDN/DDOS, Network Firewalls, IDS/IPS.
  • Virtualization, hypervisor security, container security.
  • Application development, serverless security, microservices, CICD.
  • Designing and/or implementing security in Cloud (AWS required, Azure or GCP optional): Multi-Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, shared responsibility model. AWS IAM, KMS, S3, RDS, SNS/SQS, Organization, Guard Duty, Security Hub, Detective, Config, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Lambda.

EDUCATION:

• A minimum of a Bachelor of Science in one of the following: Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity or similar field.

CERTIFICATIONS:

• A minimum of one security certification from the DOD 8570 IAM Level III or IAT Level III approved baseline.
• Additionally, one of the following certifications are , Project Management Professional (PMP), IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), or Scaled Agile (SAFe).

CLEARANCE:

• A favorable Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) and agency suitability is required.

LOCATION:

• Primary location resides at Zermount HQ. Remote work is authorized. Occasional travel to the primary location and client site maybe required.

HOURS OF OPERATION:

• Business Hours: 7:00 am EST - 7:00 pm EST | Core Hours: 8:00 am - 4:00pm EST

• Ability to pass a minimum background investigation.