Senior Cyber Architect

This position supports work located in Chesapeake, VA, Suffolk, VA and/or in Washington, DC metro area.  There is up to 25% travel required between the locations.  


Active Secret clearance required.


Primary responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product/solution owners, business teams, and analysts to help translate business strategies and requirements into solution architectures and application roadmaps.


• Define and document target architectures and patterns for enterprise applications.


• Support end to end solution design for major initiatives, ensuring consistency with enterprise architecture principles, security policies, and infrastructure standards.


• Work closely with system engineers and infrastructure/support teams to design resilient, observable, and performant cloud hosting, networking, and integration models.


• Support the development and maintenance of cloud adoption roadmaps, migration strategies, and reference architectures for key business capabilities and platforms.


• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering and DevOps teams on architecture best practices, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.


• Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure solutions meet regulatory, data protection, and identity/access management requirements.


• Review solution designs, integration approaches, and implementation plans produced by delivery teams, providing feedback and approvals.


• Support the creation and maintenance of clear architecture artifacts, including diagrams, standards, and decision records for cross team consumption.


• Lead the implementation of approved solution designs.


• Work with technical staff to help document the “as-is” environment

Experience/Skills:

• 15+ years overall IT experience.


• 5+ years in cyber security operations role, experience with Navy highly desired.


• 3+ years’ experience leveraging AI/ML technologies in support of cyber security role.


• Proven experience designing and implementing cyber security solutions in DoW cloud environment; multi cloud experience desired.


• Hands on knowledge of modern application architectures (APIs, microservices, containers, serverless, event driven patterns) and integration approaches.


• Experience working with or within large DoW enterprise environment, collaborating with multiple domains (applications, data, infrastructure, security).


• Knowledge of Agile, DevSecOps, or ITIL environments.


• Experience running workshops or interviews with technical staff to gather content.


• Ability to operate in ambiguous environments, perform discovery, and propose a structured plan to get from “unknown current state” to a well-documented capability.


• Strong communication skills capable of communicating technical concepts to senior leadership and customer stakeholders.


• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross functional teams.

Education Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer engineering, Systems Engineering or related field


• Equivalent additional work experience may be considered in lieu of degree (+4 years)

Certification Requirements


DoD 8140 System Administrator role certification (candidate must have, or obtain, at least one of the following within 90 days of starting position)

• CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP)+ CE, (or updated CompTIA SecurityX),


• Cloud +,


• GIAC Defensible Security Architecture (GDSA),


• GIAC Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP),


• GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC),


• GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA),


• GIAC Cloud Security Essentials (GCLD),


• GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA),


• Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP).


• Federal IT Security Professional-Designer (FITSP-D)


• Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)


• Certified Information Systems Security Officer (CISSO)


• Certified Information Systems Security Professional - Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (CISSP-ISSAP),


• Certified Information Systems Security Professional - Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (CISSP-ISSEP)

We use E-Verify to confirm the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires.


The anticipated salary range for this role is $170,000 to $200,000 annually. The anticipated salary range for this position is provided in accordance with applicable pay transparency laws. The final starting salary will be determined based on a variety of job-related factors, including the selected candidate's qualifications, skills, relevant experience, education, certifications, and work location (where applicable), as well as internal equity and market considerations