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JOB TITLE: Security Architect
The Security Architect joins the team to provide technical leadership for the design, integration, and evolution of secure multi-cloud networking capabilities supporting the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Next contract. This role serves as a senior technical authority, developing common networking patterns across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You will build scalable network architectures, establish technical standards, and create automation patterns to ensure secure connectivity between cloud environments, Department of the Air Force networks, and mission systems. Key responsibilities include designing hybrid connectivity using VPNs and private circuits, implementing Zero Trust principles, and managing routing and segmentation. You will utilize Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and Ansible within GitLab workflows to maintain high availability and compliance in regulated DoD environments.
Design and maintain enterprise network architectures across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
Develop reusable reference architectures and technical standards to ensure consistency across different cloud providers.
Architect secure hybrid and cross-cloud connectivity using VPNs, private circuits, and software-defined networking.
Define enterprise routing, IP address management, network segmentation, and traffic isolation strategies.
Implement Zero Trust networking principles, including firewall policies, encryption, and microsegmentation.
Provision network infrastructure automatically using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and Ansible.
Establish monitoring, flow logging, and telemetry approaches for performance analysis across heterogeneous environments.
Review proposed network changes to ensure alignment with security requirements and operational constraints.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
12–15 years of prior relevant experience in network architecture or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
Extensive experience designing and operating enterprise-scale network architectures including routing, switching, firewalls, DNS, and load balancing.
Demonstrated experience designing cloud network architectures in at least two of the following: AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, CIDR planning, and IP address management.
Experience designing secure hybrid cloud connectivity using technologies such as AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, Google Cloud Interconnect, or OCI FastConnect.
Experience implementing network infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, and Git-based configuration management.
Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance.
AWS
Microsoft Azure
Kubernetes
Terraform
CloudFormation
Bicep
Ansible
Amazon EKS
Azure Kubernetes Service
Red Hat OpenShift
DevSecOps
Infrastructure-as-Code
RMF
ATO
Zero Trust Architecture
NIST
STIGs
Identity and Access Management
Networking
Encryption
AWS
Azure
Cloud Security
IAM
NIST
RMF
Zero Trust
STIGs
F5
Palo Alto
cATO
Encryption
Secrets Management
Logging
Monitoring
Infrastructure as a Service
Agile