[Hiring] Senior Security Architect @Connected Logistics

Role Description

Contingent Upon Contract Award
Remote with occasional on-site support

Connected Logistics is seeking a Senior Security Architect to support the Cybersecurity Architecture and Engineering Services supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Information Security (OIS) Cybersecurity Operations Systems Engineering (COSE) program.

The Senior Security Architect I serves as a senior cybersecurity technical lead responsible for:

• Designing, assessing, and strengthening security architectures across enterprise applications, platforms, networks, and cloud environments.
• Conducting architecture reviews, performing threat modeling, and developing secure solution architectures.
• Ensuring cybersecurity requirements are incorporated throughout the system and solution lifecycle.
• Evaluating existing security architectures, identifying vulnerabilities and architectural risks.
• Developing practical security controls and design recommendations to protect organizational systems, networks, applications, and data from cyber threats and unauthorized access.
• Working closely with solution architects, system engineers, cybersecurity teams, development teams, and program stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or an Associate's degree in the above discipline with an additional 2 years of experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, security architecture, information technology, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience designing, evaluating, and implementing cybersecurity architectures for complex IT environments.
• Experience conducting security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and solution architecture assessments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security concepts spanning applications, networks, infrastructure, identity, data, and cloud technologies.
• Ability to develop and communicate security architecture recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively with architecture, engineering, development, cybersecurity, and program teams.

Requirements

• Public Trust: T4 or T5 (TS)
• Experience identifying cybersecurity risks, architectural weaknesses, and security control gaps and developing appropriate mitigation recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Professional cybersecurity or security architecture certifications relevant to the position.
• Experience developing enterprise cybersecurity reference architectures, security patterns, reusable security designs, or technical security standards.
• Experience with security architecture for cloud, hybrid-cloud, DevSecOps, containerized, microservices, and modern application environments.
• Experience integrating cybersecurity requirements into solution architecture and engineering processes.
• Experience applying structured threat-modeling techniques during architecture and solution design.
• Experience supporting cybersecurity architecture within large-scale federal government or highly regulated enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with federal cybersecurity frameworks, security controls, risk management practices, and Zero Trust architectural principles.
• Experience translating cybersecurity policy and control requirements into actionable technical architecture and engineering requirements.
• Strong technical writing, architecture documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.

Benefits

• The anticipated salary range for this position is $140,000.00-$150,000.00 USD.
• Robust benefits package including health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Great 401(k) package.
• Generous Paid Time Off.