Senior Cybersecurity Architect (Lead)

Chenega Corporation•Washington, DC

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Cybersecurity Architect is responsible for ensuring all product/functional areas in the security engineering area are executed successfully, as well as facilitating inter- and intra-task and subtask coordination.

Requirements

BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related discipline
ISC(2) CISSP certification
10+ years of experience designing, building, testing, and implementing security systems within an organization's IT network. Should have experience with Wireless Networks, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, LAN/WAN, SIEM, and Cloud integration strategies.
5+ years of experience managing a team of Security Engineers.
Must be a U.S. citizen
Must be able to pass a Criminal and Financial Background Check prior to start

Nice To Haves

ISC(2) CISSP-ISSAP
Cloud Security Architecture
Experience with Microsoft Azure and AWS
Salesforce
Excellent teaching, problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills.
Experience in applying risk management techniques to develop and complete risk assessments based on NIST standards to ensure system design and implementation sufficiently addresses or mitigates IA risk.
Ability to interact with a broad cross-section of personnel, including senior management, to explain and enforce security measures to protect agency assets

Responsibilities

Provide cybersecurity engineering services to include designing the customer’s IT enterprise and systems against existing and emerging cyber threats; developing and upgrading the security capabilities of legacy systems; and coordinating security-related activities with information security architects, senior agency information security officers, system owners, common security control providers, and information system security officers
Facilitate the integration of security and privacy requirements in the Secure System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to address security and privacy considerations in a cost-effective manner
Assist with planning, designing, and integrating security and privacy requirements into the system development life cycle for new systems and existing systems that need to undergo significant enhancements
Provide security consulting, architecture, application security services, tools management, and engineering support for systems, emerging IT, and IT security initiatives, and ensure that IT security is embedded and threaded throughout the IT architecture for all projects
Create, update, revise, and maintain Cyber Security Architecture, Engineering, and Security Tools documentation for the Cyber Security & Privacy Division using industry best practices
Provide documentation support, architectural design, security engineering, application security, and cybersecurity tools management
Other duties as assigned