NIH - Cyber Technical Architect
About The Position
cFocus Software is seeking a Cyber Technical Architect to support the National Institutes of Health (NIH) program. This is a fully remote position that requires a Public Trust clearance or the ability to obtain one. The role involves serving as a senior cybersecurity technical advisor, providing guidance on modernization initiatives, conducting architecture reviews, and developing technical recommendations for enterprise cybersecurity investments. The architect will also mentor staff, coordinate with various teams, and present technical briefings to leadership. Key responsibilities include leading the design, implementation, and management of NIH's enterprise cybersecurity architecture, developing secure solutions for various computing environments, establishing standards and roadmaps, and evaluating emerging technologies. The position also focuses on supporting disaster recovery, developing architectural documentation, and leading the implementation of Zero Trust Architecture initiatives, including developing maturity roadmaps, designing identity-centric security models, and architecting secure access solutions.
Requirements
- Public Trust Clearance
- B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 8+ years of progressively responsible cybersecurity engineering and architecture experience.
- Experience supporting Federal cybersecurity programs.
- Experience designing secure hybrid cloud and enterprise security architectures.
- Experience implementing NIST cybersecurity frameworks and Federal security controls.
- Active CISSP, CISSP-ISSAP, CCSP, SABSA Chartered Architect, TOGAF, GDSA, or GSE
Responsibilities
- Serve as senior cybersecurity technical advisor to NIH leadership.
- Provide technical guidance supporting cybersecurity modernization initiatives.
- Conduct enterprise architecture reviews for new technologies and major system changes.
- Participate in engineering reviews throughout system development lifecycles.
- Develop technical recommendations supporting enterprise cybersecurity investments.
- Mentor cybersecurity engineers and technical staff.
- Coordinate with system owners, ISSOs, infrastructure teams, cloud engineers, and security operations personnel.
- Present technical briefings and architectural recommendations to Government leadership.
- Lead the design, implementation, modernization, and lifecycle management of NIH enterprise cybersecurity architecture.
- Develop secure architectural solutions supporting on-premises, cloud, and hybrid computing environments.
- Establish enterprise cybersecurity standards, technical roadmaps, and reference architectures.
- Design resilient security architectures supporting availability, confidentiality, and integrity of NIH information systems.
- Evaluate emerging cybersecurity technologies and recommend enterprise adoption strategies.
- Provide strategic technical leadership regarding enterprise security engineering, risk reduction, and industry best practices.
- Support disaster recovery, contingency planning, and resilience of enterprise cybersecurity platforms.
- Develop architectural documentation, engineering diagrams, standards, implementation guides, and technical procedures.
- Architect, engineer, implement, administer, and optimize enterprise cybersecurity technologies.
- Lead engineering activities supporting SIEM, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW), IDS/IPS, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Privileged Access Management (PAM), cloud security platforms, and related enterprise security technologies.
- Design secure integration between enterprise cybersecurity tools and operational infrastructure.
- Engineer secure monitoring, alerting, logging, and analytics capabilities.
- Oversee security platform performance tuning, optimization, scalability, and lifecycle management.
- Design security infrastructure supporting continuous monitoring and operational cybersecurity.
- Evaluate system performance and identify opportunities to improve enterprise visibility and security posture.
- Review enterprise security architectures to ensure compliance with Federal cybersecurity requirements.
- Develop technical implementation strategies for new cybersecurity capabilities.
- Support backup, restoration, resiliency, and disaster recovery planning for cybersecurity infrastructure.
- Maintain architectural documentation supporting enterprise security systems and technologies.
- Lead development and implementation of NIH Zero Trust Architecture initiatives.
- Develop Zero Trust maturity roadmaps aligned with Federal cybersecurity guidance.
- Design identity-centric security models supporting least privilege and continuous verification.
- Architect secure identity, authentication, authorization, and access control solutions.
- Implement network segmentation and micro-segmentation strategies.
- Design secure access solutions supporting remote users, cloud services, and hybrid environments.
- Evaluate Zero Trust technologies and recommend implementation priorities.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to integrate Zero Trust principles across enterprise systems.
- Ensure Zero Trust initiatives align with NIST guidance, Executive Orders, and Federal mandates.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
