Job Title: Cloud Security Architect

Location:Reston, VA (Hybrid)

Mode: Contract

Required Skills:

• 4 Years of experience in Cyber Security field as an Information Security Architect or Cloud Security Architect.
• 2-4 years of experience in AWS as a Cloud Security Architect/Engineer and must be certified in at least one of the cloud technologies/infrastructures.
• Excellent written and communication skills to report, document and communicate security architecture.
• Excellent coordination skills and must be detail oriented.
• Cloud agnostic security architecture experience a plus
• 1-2 years of experience in working with NIST assessments of business applications
• Container Security experience to protect container workloads during build and run-time
• API Security architecture experience with industry standard API Gateways 
• Security engineering/administration background leveraging SIEM, Network firewalls, host-based security, and security configuration
• One or more industry standard security certification such as CISSP, CCSP or relevant GIAC certifications (ANY)
• One or more Cloud Service Providers Security Specialty Certifications such as AWS Security Specialty or Azure AZ-500 Certification
• The group of skills related to Security including designing and evaluating security systems, identifying security threats, securing computers, assessing vulnerability, etc.
• The group of skills related to Relationship Management including managing and engaging stakeholders, customers, and vendors, building relationship networks, contracting, etc.
• Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
• The group of skills related to Risk Assessment and Management including evaluating and designing controls, conducting impact assessments, identifying control gaps, remediating risk, etc.
• Experience identifying and determining levels of risk to an organization's networks and systems using cybersecurity techniques 
• Working with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively to work toward a common goal
• Skilled in cloud technologies and cloud computing
• The group of skills related to Influencing including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Enterprise/Portfolio Architecture team and Business Units development squads to collaboratively develop security architectures/designs leveraging approved patterns that ensure applications migrating from on-premise to Cloud, achieving high standards of security practices and compliance.
• Drive the development and adoption of cloud security standards, best practices, and technologies within Enterprise IT infrastructure
• Liaise on security-related issues with internal business stakeholders, InfoSec, Enterprise Architecture, and application development squads
• Work to develop, enhance and document security architecture, security policies, patterns, procedures, guidelines and standards required to design cloud-based solutions
• Educate application, portfolio and solution architects on secure solution design and industry best security practices
• Work on assessments of compliance and standards including and not limited to NIST, FedRAMP, FIPS, etc.
• Support threat modeling and update application security architecture as needed. 
• Support application development squads with Security implementations and issues