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Open nowPosted 48 days ago

Cybersecurity SME

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We are seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Cybersecurity Architect to join our team supporting a large-scale federal modernization program. This role owns security architecture across enterprise solutions, platforms, networks, identity, mobility/endpoints, data, and cloud, bridging cybersecurity policy and controls with implementable designs, evidence, and risk decisions throughout the system lifecycle.

This is a hands-on architecture role. You'll be expected to produce real security designs and see them through review, implementation, and operations, not just set policy from a distance.

This is a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.

Key Responsibilities

1. Security Architecture & Design

  • Develop and assess security architectures, patterns, requirements, controls integration, trust boundaries, data flows, and identity and segmentation design.
  • Design logging, resilience, and operational safeguards into solution architecture.
  • Translate federal and agency security requirements into practical design decisions, implementation actions, and residual-risk statements.

2. Reviews & Governance

  • Participate in architecture compliance, technical design, engineering, security, and phase-gate reviews.
  • Evaluate proposed deviations and waivers, and provide risk-informed recommendations for approval.
  • Maintain security architecture artifacts, review findings, decisions, and risks in approved repositories, with clear traceability.

3. Cross-Domain Coordination

  • Coordinate with solution, data, cloud/platform, network, identity, endpoint/mobility, and operations stakeholders to embed security into design from the start.
  • Identify design gaps, threats, vulnerabilities, technical debt, and noncompliance early in the lifecycle, and propose mitigation options.

4. Risk & Compliance

  • Apply federal risk management framework and security control knowledge to real design decisions.
  • Support authorization evidence, implementation readiness, and post-deployment validation as needed.
  • Produce implementable security designs, review findings, mitigations, and risk decisions that engineers can act on.

5. Communication & Advisory

  • Communicate security architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and residual risk clearly to engineers, architects, program managers, and Government stakeholders.
  • Support incident and problem learning to feed back into architecture improvements.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in cybersecurity, including significant time in security architecture or enterprise technical leadership.
  • Working knowledge of federal risk management, security controls, authorization, continuous monitoring, zero trust, identity, network, endpoint, cloud, application, data, and logging considerations.
  • Ability to interpret security requirements and produce implementable designs, review findings, mitigations, and risk decisions.
  • Strong communication skills, with experience engaging engineers, architects, program managers, and Government decision-makers.
  • U.S. citizenship required.

Nice to Have

  • Direct federal, government, or mission-critical system security architecture experience.
  • CISSP, CCSP, CISM, SABSA, GIAC, cloud security, or comparable security credentials.
  • Experience with NIST RMF/control families, zero trust, cloud security, identity, endpoint security, segmentation, logging/SIEM, and vulnerability management.
  • Experience documenting security architecture views in Sparx/Prolaborate or comparable architecture/modeling tools.

Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development assistance
  • Referral program
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Vision insurance
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