Cloud Security Architect

Req ID: 283284 

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We are currently seeking a Cloud Security Architect to join our team in Arlington, Virginia (US-VA), United States (US).

Cloud Security Architect

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cloud Security Architect to join our team. As a Cloud Security Architect, you will be responsible for designing, securing, implementing, and managing our customer’s cloud infrastructure.

 

A cloud architect is an IT professional who is responsible for overseeing a company's cloud computing strategy. This includes cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring. Cloud architects oversee application architecture and deployment in cloud environments, including public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud. One of their primary objectives is to guarantee that the cloud infrastructure aligns with the business needs concerning scalability, performance, security, and cost efficiency. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the seamless integration of cloud services, optimize system performance, and enhance security measures.

 

The Cloud Security Architect serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) regarding cybersecurity assessment, implementation, risk, and security impacts associated with cloud environments IaaS, PaaS, XaaS, applications, containers, code while interpreting direction from intelligence, cybersecurity, and other resources to provide analysis and recommendations related to information security.

 

The Cloud Security Architect must have a comprehensive knowledge of FISMA, NIST, NSA, and other information security, cybersecurity, UAM, and CDM related industry policies, standards, procedures, guidelines, best practices, developing, engineering, implementing, testing, evaluating, configuring, monitoring, and maintaining cybersecurity, UAM, CDM, insider threat detection/analysis. incident detection/analysis, and vulnerability compliance and assessment software and hardware.

 

Personnel assigned to this role will serve primarily on the ISSO as a Service (ISSaaS) team. This role is responsible for coordinating with other internal teams, sections, or divisions within the organization. These include but are not limited to: IT Operations, Engineering & Integration, and Software Operations, and the Office of Investigative Technology.

 

Job Duties: 

• Cloud adoption. The architect's role is to help determine the need for cloud and manage its adoption. Part of the process of cloud adoption is managing the cultural change in the organization that comes with changing infrastructure, employee roles and procedures. Another aspect of this is vendor management.
• Strategic design and planning. After cloud adoption is approved, a cloud architect should develop a cloud migration strategy that is carefully integrated with the business objectives of the company. This entails selecting the ideal combination of cloud service providers and services and creating infrastructures that develop to meet the expanding needs of the company. Cloud architect should also ensure that strong disaster recovery plans are in place in case of emergencies.
• Cloud architecture development. After strategic design and planning, the architect is tasked with developing the architecture, which spans several areas of IT, including application development, data management and identity and access management (IAM). It is the role of the architect to ensure that all these pieces work in harmony.
• Cloud management and monitoring. Once the architecture is established, the cloud architect's job is to maintain the architecture, provide troubleshooting and monitor its performance according to business objectives.
• Front-end platforms. Front-end cloud infrastructure includes everything the client will interact with. It is software that allows users to access the cloud.
• Back-end platforms. Back-end cloud infrastructure refers to hardware and software components of a cloud system like data storage, servers, virtual machines, hypervisors, and network devices.
• Cloud-based data delivery models. Cloud computing service vendors typically provide organizations with IT