Solutions Architect / Active Secret

Peraton • Arlington, VA

6h • Onsite

About The Position

Peraton is currently seeking to hire a Solutions Architect to become a member of their Federal Strategic Cyber Group. This is a highly visible role where you will influence security strategy, architect innovative solutions, and collaborate with senior technical leaders to strengthen mission resilience against evolving threats. As a Solutions Architect, you will serve as a trusted technical leader responsible for designing and advancing enterprise security architectures that support complex Federal and national security environments. Key responsibilities include defining, designing, and evolving enterprise security architectures and cybersecurity solutions, partnering with Application, Infrastructure, Cloud, and Data teams to implement secure, scalable, and resilient technologies, establishing and maintaining security standards, policies, frameworks, and technical guidance across the enterprise, leading security architecture reviews, risk assessments, compliance evaluations, and remediation efforts, developing and maintaining Security Risk Management Plans aligned to mission objectives and regulatory requirements, evaluating emerging technologies and recommending innovative security capabilities to enhance organizational security posture, authoring technical recommendations, architecture documentation, and executive-level briefings for stakeholders, and supporting compliance with Federal cybersecurity frameworks and security regulations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related scientific or technical discipline and a minimum of 14 years’ of relevant experience. An additional 4 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of the bachelors degree requirement.
• Must either possess and maintain, or obtain prior to start date, one of the following professional certifications: CISSP, Security+, Net+, A+, MCP, MCSE, CCNA, MCSA.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Active Secret security clearance.
• Ability to obtain a final Top Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Experience conducting industry and peer security reviews.
• Demonstrated ability to author white papers, technical recommendations, or security architecture documentation.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to brief technical and executive audiences.
• Prior experience in Federal or DoD cybersecurity programs.
• CISM Certification
• CCSP Certification

Responsibilities

• Define, design, and evolve enterprise security architectures and cybersecurity solutions.
• Partner with Application, Infrastructure, Cloud, and Data teams to implement secure, scalable, and resilient technologies.
• Establish and maintain security standards, policies, frameworks, and technical guidance across the enterprise.
• Lead security architecture reviews, risk assessments, compliance evaluations, and remediation efforts.
• Develop and maintain Security Risk Management Plans aligned to mission objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative security capabilities to enhance organizational security posture.
• Author technical recommendations, architecture documentation, and executive-level briefings for stakeholders.
• Support compliance with Federal cybersecurity frameworks and security regulations.

Benefits

• Overtime
• Shift differential
• Discretionary bonus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior