Senior Cyber Architect

We are seeking an experienced Senior Cyber Architect to partner with business stakeholders, business analysts, system engineers, and infrastructure teams to design and deliver enterprise cloud application architectures, strategies, and roadmaps. This role will ensure our customer’s application portfolio is scalable, secure, cost effective, and aligned with their business goals across their hybrid and multi cloud environments.

Work will be performed remote from employee home, at corporate offices in Chesapeake, VA and customer site in Suffolk, VA.

Some travel may be required.

Active Secret clearance required.

Primary responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product/solution owners, business teams, and analysts to help translate business strategies and requirements into solution architectures and application roadmaps.
• Define and document target architectures and patterns for enterprise applications.
• Support end to end solution design for major initiatives, ensuring consistency with enterprise architecture principles, security policies, and infrastructure standards.
• Work closely with system engineers and infrastructure/support teams to design resilient, observable, and performant cloud hosting, networking, and integration models.
• Support the development and maintenance of cloud adoption roadmaps, migration strategies, and reference architectures for key business capabilities and platforms.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering and DevOps teams on architecture best practices, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure solutions meet regulatory, data protection, and identity/access management requirements.
• Review solution designs, integration approaches, and implementation plans produced by delivery teams, providing feedback and approvals.
• Support the creation and maintenance of clear architecture artifacts, including diagrams, standards, and decision records for cross team consumption.
• Lead the implementation of approved solution designs.
• Work with technical staff to help document the “as-is” environment

Experience/Skills:

• 15+ years overall IT experience.
• 5+ years in cyber security operations role, experience with Navy highly desired.
• 3+ years’ experience leveraging AI/ML technologies in support of cyber security role.
• Proven experience designing and implementing cyber security solutions in DoW cloud environment; multi cloud experience desired.
• Hands on knowledge of modern application architectures (APIs, microservices, containers, serverless, event driven patterns) and integration approaches.
• Experience working with or within large DoW enterprise environment, collaborating with multiple domains (applications, data, infrastructure, security).
• Knowledge of Agile, DevSecOps, or ITIL environments.
• Experience running workshops or interviews with technical staff to gather content.
• Ability to operate in ambiguous environments, perform discovery, and propose a structured plan to get from “unknown current state” to a well-documented capability.
• Strong communication skills capable of communicating technical concepts to senior leadership and customer stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross functional teams.

Education Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer engineering, Systems Engineering or related field
• Equivalent additional work experience may be considered in lieu of degree (+4 years)

Certification Requirements

DoD 8140 System Administrator role certification (candidate must have, or obtain, at least one of the following within 90 days of starting position)

• CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP)+ CE, (or updated CompTIA SecurityX),
• Cloud +,
• GIAC Defensible Security Architecture (GDSA),
• GIAC Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP),
• GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC),
• GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA),
• GIAC Cloud Security Essentials (GCLD),
• GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA),
• Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP).
• Federal IT Security Professional-Designer (FITSP-D)
• Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)
• Certified Information Systems Security Officer (CISSO)
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional - Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (CISSP-ISSAP),
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional - Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (CISSP-ISSEP)

We use E-Verify to confirm the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires.

The anticipated salary range for this role is $170,000 to $200,000 annually. The anticipated salary range for this position is provided in accordance with applicable pay transparency laws. The final starting salary will be determined based on a variety of job-related factors, including the selected candidate's qualifications, skills, relevant experience, education, certifications, and work location (where applicable), as well as internal equity and market considerations