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Role: Cloud Security Architect

Location: Reston, VA (Hybrid)

Duration: Contract Position

Job Description:

Must-Haves: 

•       4+ Years of experience in Cyber Security field as an Information Security Architect or Cloud Security Architect 

•       2-4 years of experience in AWS as a Cloud Security Architect/Engineer and must be certified in at least one of the cloud technologies/infrastructures

•       Excellent written and communication skills to report, document and communicate security architecture 

•       Excellent coordination skills and must be detail oriented 

Nice-to-Haves: 

•       Cloud agnostic security architecture experience a plus 

•       1-2 years of experience in working with NIST assessments of business applications 

•       Container Security experience to protect container workloads during build and run-time 

•       API Security architecture experience with industry standard API Gateways  

•       Security engineering/administration background leveraging SIEM, Network firewalls, host-based security, and security configuration 

•       One or more industry standard security certification such as CISSP, CCSP or relevant GIAC certifications 

•       One or more Cloud Service Providers Security Specialty Certifications such as AWS Security Specialty or Azure AZ-500 Certification 

•       The group of skills related to Security including designing and evaluating security systems, identifying security threats, securing computers, assessing vulnerability, etc. 

•       The group of skills related to Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, contracting, etc. 

•       Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand 

•       The group of skills related to Risk Assessment and Management including evaluating and designing controls, conducting impact assessments, identifying control gaps, remediating risk, etc. 

•       Experience identifying and determining levels of risk to an organization’s networks and systems using cybersecurity techniques  

•       Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal 

•       Skilled in cloud technologies and cloud computing 

•       The group of skills related to Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict 

Key Areas of Responsibility:  

•       Partner with Enterprise/Portfolio Architecture team and Business Units development squads to collaboratively develop security architectures/designs leveraging approved patterns that ensure applications migrating from on-premises to Cloud, achieving high standards of security practices and compliance. 

•       Drive the development and adoption of cloud security standards, best practices, and technologies within Enterprise IT infrastructure 

•       Liaise on security-related issues with internal business stakeholders, InfoSec, Enterprise Architecture, and application development squads 

•       Work to develop, enhance, and document security architecture, security policies, patterns, procedures, guidelines, and standards required to design cloud-based solutions 

•       Educate application, portfolio and solution architects on secure solution design and industry best security practices 

•       Work on assessments of compliance and standards including and not limited to NIST, FedRAMP, FIPS, etc. 

•       Support threat modeling and update application security architecture as needed.  

•       Support application development squads with Security implementations and issues