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Senior Cybersecurity Architect

Duke Energy
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Jul 2025

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Job Summary

As a member of the Cybersecurity Architecture and Assessment Team, the Sr. Security Architect will provide security solution architecture services across Duke. Helps set and maintain policies, procedures, and standards for network build outs and updates. Plan for security requirements and provide analysts and IT or OT staff guidance to secure design and architecture, solution placement and configurations and effectively managing risks / threats.  Ensures that the stakeholder security requirements necessary to protect the organization’s mission and business processes are adequately addressed in all aspects of enterprise architecture including reference models, segment and solution architectures, and the resulting systems supporting those missions and business processes.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Cybersecurity leadership and architects to make sure security technologies, processes, and people align with Duke’s strategic plan and budget

  • Develop/integrate cybersecurity designs for systems and networks with multilevel security requirements or requirements for the processing of multiple classification levels of data primarily applicable to Duke Energy (e.g., PUBLIC, CONFIDENTIAL, and RESTRICTED).

  • Ensure that acquired or developed system(s) and architecture(s) are consistent with organization's cybersecurity architecture guidelines.

  • Define and document how the implementation of a new system or new interfaces between systems impacts the security posture of the current environment.

  • Analyze candidate architectures, allocate security services, and select security mechanisms.

  • Evaluate security architectures and designs to determine the adequacy of security design and architecture proposed or provided in response to requirements contained in acquisition documents.

  • Develop enterprise architecture or system components required to meet user needs.

  • Document and update as necessary all definition and architecture activities.

  • Determine the protection needs (i.e., security controls) for the information system(s) and network(s) and document appropriately.

  • Translate proposed capabilities into technical requirements.

  • Assess and design security management functions as related to cyberspace.

  • Collaborate with application assessment team to ensure applications developed in-house comply with industry practices such as following coding standards, static / dynamic code review, and pre-production testing.

Maintain Duke’s overall security strategy, mechanisms for policy enforcement, definition of ownership, monitoring mechanisms, and process controls

Define Duke’s security standards, security baselines, performance metrics, plan, and initiate periodic performance reviews for the cybersecurity architecture and assessment team and vendors

Design network security solutions, select standard products and develop common techniques to meet Duke’s business requirements

Continually monitor and support network security solutions including architecture and technologies and improve the architecture in order to meet performance and risk management objectives

Provide guidance to Duke’s Architecture Review Committee (ARC) and Cybersecurity Architecture Review board (CAR) for system design updates, provisioning and de-provisioning, maintenance, scanning, etc. regarding cybersecurity

Basic/Required Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Cybersecurity, Managing Information Strategies (MIS), or Computer Science

  • Minimum 5 years related work experience

  • In lieu of Bachelors degree(s) AND 5 year(s) related work experience listed above, High School/GED AND 9 year(s) related work experience

Desired Qualifications

Experience in Cybersecurity field preferably with knowledge of platform, application, storage, network, and virtualization
 

Expert knowledge in security solution architecture design and implementation
 

Expert in 3+ of the 10 security domains.

  • Access Control Systems and Methodology

  • Telecommunications and Network Security

  • Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning

  • Securit

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