Principal Enterprise Security Architect (SME)

General Dynamics Information Technology•USA VA Home Office (VAHOME), VA

1d•$147,292 - $199,278•Remote

About The Position

Advance your career while impacting our national security as a Principal Enterprise Security Architect (SME). Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government. We are seeking a visionary Principal Enterprise Security Architect to serve as the strategic and technical bridge between USPS security operations and CISO leadership, and enterprise infrastructure. Operating within the USPS Corporate Information Security Office (CISO), you will collaborate directly with internal and external stakeholders to align corporate initiatives with robust cyber defense strategies. The primary focus of this role is to ensure the preservation and continuous enhancement of USPS’ security posture throughout their continuing infrastructure evolution process and into the ultimate architectural end-state. You will identify structural security gaps across USPS hybrid environment, comprising multiple physical data centers and multi-cloud environments, engineering resilient solutions to mitigate them, while using SI and LLM.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other IT/security related major; or equivalent experience
If resources do not have a relevant college degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required.
CCIE
CISSP
10+ years’ relevant experience
15+ years with strong experience with Edge and Perimeter Protection solutions and designs - IDS/IPS, WAF/WAAP, SDWAN remote security
10+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity and infrastructure, with 5+ years in a dedicated architecture role directly influencing architectural decisions and priority.
15+ years with hands-on architectural experience across the entire technical scope: PKI, NDR, NGFW, WAAP, EDR/XDR, and SIEM), IDS/IPS, DNS Protection, Proxy, Webproxy, PAC, Loadbalancer, IP routing, Data Center designs
Strong experience with SASE/SSE Convergence – SDWAN, (CASB), Secure Web Gateways (SWG), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA).
Strong experience with Network service security and infrastructure – DNS security, PKI and CAOps, Proxy
Strong understanding of Zero Trust tenets and principles, and practical application of the principles.
In-depth understanding of Security Framework Alignment: Map all infrastructure patterns to prevailing industry standards and best practices, specifically NIST CSF / SP 800-53 and the CIS Critical Security Controls.
In-depth understanding of hybrid large scale enterprise: Strong history of assessing and securing complex enterprise environments spanning multiple physical data centers and comprehensive multi-cloud environments from various cloud service providers. (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Experience with development and application of governance policy and standards in application of security tools, and Security Governance process/workstream management, while working to leverage SI to automate processes
Understanding AI application development methodology
Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting.
This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Nice To Haves

Microsoft Azure
GCP
AWS Fundamentals/Associate
Splunk
x-AI Fundamentals

Responsibilities

Act as the primary security architecture advisor to USPS CISO ENG, translating deep technical risks and structural vulnerabilities into clear business-risk metrics.
Lead collaborative design, threat modeling, and remediation sessions across the CISO office, Network Engineering teams, Endpoint Management teams, and external vendor/partner organizations.
Formulate and author Enterprise Security Architecture roadmap, ensuring the security solution/technology investments align with CISO goals and business needs, in the areas of edge/network defense, cloud security, transport security, endpoint protection, and certificate lifecycle management. Using skillset along with vendor products to continue moving the enterprise security towards SI automation.
Establish and enforce governance and security policies in the infrastructure.
Manage and/or advise on planning and operation of all CISO Engineering Security Edge workstreams.
Conduct rigorous, proactive architectural reviews of the global hybrid footprint to identify structural weaknesses through continuous monitoring.
Experience with security Incident response activities.

Benefits

401K with company match
Comprehensive health and wellness packages
Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays
variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
dental plan options
a vision plan
a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
full flex work weeks where possible
a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire.
The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
short and long-term disability benefits
life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.