Chief Security Architect

Job Summary

Leidos is seeking a Chief Security Architect to join our team in support of our federal civil customer. As a key member of our team, you will help our customers solve their most demanding challenges via technology, modernization, and transformation processes.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 to ensure 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Additional Skills & Certifications

• Experience with Cyber Security Operations
• Active CISSP certification preferred
• Active DoD/Top Secret Clearance (Interim Top Secret acceptable), or TS/SCI

Job Type

• Full-Time

Work Location

• Fairmont, WV or Boulder, CO

Travel

• Yes, 10%

Leidos is a Fortune 500 information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets.

The company's 38,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers.

Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020.

For more information, visit https://www.leidos.com/.

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