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Cyber Security Architect
Washington, DC

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Job Description

Description

Every day at Perspecta, we enable hundreds of thousands of people to take on our nation's most important work.

We're a company founded on a diverse set of capabilities and skills, bound together by a single promise: we never stop solving our nation's most complex challenges. Our team of engineers, analysts, developers, investigators, integrators and architects work tirelessly to create innovative solutions. We continually push ourselves-to respond, to adapt, to go further. To look ahead to the changing landscape and develop new and innovative ways to serve our customers.

Perspecta works with U.S. government customers in defense, intelligence, civilian, health care, and state and local markets. Our high-caliber employees are rewarded in many ways-not only through competitive salaries and benefits packages, but the opportunity to create a meaningful impact in jobs and on projects that matter.

Perspecta's talented and robust workforce-14,000 strong-stands ready to welcome you to the team. Let's make an impact together.

Perspecta has an immediate need for a Security Architect in Washington DC

The Security Architect plays an integral role in defining and assessing our infrastructure security strategy, architecture and practices. A successful person in this role will effectively translate business objectives and risk management strategies into specific security processes enabled by security technologies and services.

Responsibilities

* Develop and maintain an infrastructure and DevOps security strategic plan, roadmap and architecture process in alignment with enterprise policies and standards.
* Develop and implement security solutions and capabilities for infrastructure and SecOps teams that are clearly aligned with business, technology and threat drivers.
* Develop and maintain security architecture artifacts (models, templates, controls, standards and procedures) that can be used to leverage security capabilities in projects and operations.
* Validate IT infrastructure, security configurations and tools for security best practices, and recommend changes to enhance security and reduce risk where applicable.
* Conduct security assessments of existing and prospective vendors, third party applications, services and other items.
* Conduct or participate in forensic analysis, penetration testing, disaster recovery planning and business continuity management.
* Advocate and enforce cybersecurity best practices and standards and share insights throughout the organization.

Qualifications

Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity or a related field. (Master's degree, preferred)
* 5 to 7 years of experience in a cybersecurity discipline at a senior level.
* Current certification in one or more of the following:

o ISC2's CISSP o ISACA's CISM o ISACA's CISA o The Open Group's TOGAF o SANS' GAIC o IAPP's CIPT

* Experience in using architecture methodologies such as SABSA, Zachman and TOGAF
* Direct, hands-on experience managing security infrastructure such as firewalls, IPSs, WAFs, endpoint protection, SIEM and log management technology
* Verifiable experience reviewing application code for security vulnerabilities
* Expert understanding of containers, virtualization strategies, public cloud services and identity access management technologies
* Experience in designing and implementing Customer Data Protection and Credentials management (TLS, PKI, Secrets, etc.) solutions

EEO Tagline: Perspecta is an AA/EEO Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories

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