Chief Security Architect

Chief Security Architect

NOAA Security Operations Center (SOC)

Boulder, CO

Clearance: Top Secret or Interim Top Secret

Job Description

Obsidian is seeking a Chief Security Architect on the NOAA Cyber Security Center contract. In this role, you will help our customers solve their most demanding challenges via technology, modernization, and transformation processes, and proven methods and solutions. As a Cyber Architect, you will lead all program Cyber initiatives including design and implementation of cyber tools/solutions, analysis of alternatives, platform upgrades, enhancement requests, defect resolution, and project coordination. In-depth knowledge of enterprise cybersecurity capabilities and various cybersecurity tools and supporting software and hardware is required. The main focus will be on security operation center tools, log and event management, vulnerability scanning and management, secure configuration management, network security, and cybersecurity architectural support.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the research of new technical trends, products and services, such as hardware components, system software, and networks technologies that offer opportunities to improve the security efficiency and effectiveness of the IT infrastructure across all teams on development and administration.
• Work with the business stakeholders, engineers, and system administrators to ensure all goals are met across the program.
• Provide management, leadership and direction to program engineering team leads and individual contributors
• Act as a subject matter expert for all Cyber Security projects.
• Work with internal and external partners ensuring that the current and future service level requirements of customers are identified, understood and documented in SLA documents
• Produce and maintain security architecture documents establishing the operational, system and technical views of the security architecture including all of the significant areas relative to network defense and the various technologies in use.
• Provides an analysis of the security architecture and document recommendations to close gaps in data protection.
• Create Standard Operating Procedures and decision analysis documentation, as requested.
• Coordinate application and platform upgrades, while ensuring latest releases are implemented in a timely manner with minimal or no disruption to IT operations.
• Produce reports and dashboards based on defined measures, metrics and key performance indicators.

Qualifications

• Masters degree with 15 years of experience related to IT and/or cyber security. Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• Experience managing the implementation and operation of security architecture and tools (5 years)
• Experience working in project management roles (5 years)
• Experience with IT modernization (5 years)
• Understanding of key cyber security tools to ensure that they are consistently deployed, executed, and continuously improved in alignment with business requirements.
• Experience leading complex security infrastructure consolidation and modernization efforts to achieve standardized, consistent and repeatable processes for delivery of services across a large agency enterprise, and optimized use of shared resources.
• Experience effectively communicating at senior levels within a customer organization and meeting with stakeholders to formulate, review, and execute task plans and deliverable items.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with customer representatives, domain experts, systems engineers and architects
• Experience leading high performing multi-disciplinary teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cyber Security Operations
• Active CISSP certification preferred

Clearance/Citizenship

• Must have a DoD Top Secret clearance (Interim Top Secret acceptable), or TS/SCI

Obsidian Global, LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual's race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $185,000.00 - $210,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• Do you have experience with a SIEM implementation?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Cybersecurity: 10 years (Required)

Security clearance:

• Top Secret (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Boulder, CO 80305 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Boulder, CO 80305: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $185,000 - $210,000