Cloud Cybersecurity Architect

MITRE; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 173,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE in Huntsville, AL, seeks a Cloud Cybersecurity Architect to join the Secure Enterprise and Cloud Architectures team. The role focuses on designing secure cloud solutions, zero trust implementation, and collaboration with federal sponsors.

You will provide technical guidance to address cyber challenges and help advance national security missions. The position requires active Top Secret/SCI clearance, 4+ days on-site per week, and deep expertise across cloud platforms, security controls, and

Qualifications

• Typically requires minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; 6 years with Master’s; 3 years with PhD; or equivalent experience.
• Advanced ability to architect secure cloud solutions and apply zero trust to complex cloud architectures.
• Hands-on experience designing and securing solutions on at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, IBM Cloud).
• Strong understanding of IAM, network security, data protection, application security, logging and monitoring, and incident response in cloud environments.
• Experience implementing security controls and patterns using cloud-native services (security groups, WAF, KMS, IAM roles/policies, secrets management).
• Knowledge of security logging, telemetry, analytics, and orchestration in enterprise security architectures and zero trust.
• Familiarity with emerging security technologies and threat landscapes.
• Strong knowledge of common attack techniques and threat landscapes.
• Experience with cybersecurity technologies and tools, trends, and emerging capabilities.
• Ability to lead and work with others on challenging technical problems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with government executives.
• Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance; U.S. citizenship required.
• On-site presence required: minimum four days a week.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop secure cloud architectures with leading cloud providers.
• Research, specify, and implement cloud-based cybersecurity tools and procedures.
• Provide recommendations to meet security, resiliency, and safety goals across systems.
• Research and develop capabilities for assessing system resilience and security.
• Collaborate with government officials, providing technical and strategic cyber advice.
• Apply knowledge of network architectures and security to protect and detect cyber threats.
• Leverage AI/ML and zero trust to improve government security posture.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Zero trust

Cloud platforms

Security monitoring

Threat modeling

Government communication

Team leadership

Security controls

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

OCI

IBM Cloud

Job description

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.

Department Summary:

MITRE’s Secure Enterprise and Cloud Architectures Department (L523) in the Cyber Engineering Division provides subject matter expertise and objective analysis to Federal Government sponsors in enterprise-wide security architecture, with specific emphasis on cloud computing, zero trust architecture, 5G, and networking technologies. The department advances the state of cyber security while leveraging the functionality and cost efficiencies of advanced architectures and technologies. The department is part of MITRE Technology & Engineering, driving mission impact by delivering nation‑leading, differentiated capabilities to a rich set of consequential national programs across the six Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) that MITRE leads. Our goal is to develop solutions and deliver outcomes for our sponsors, to ensure the security, health, and prosperity of the American public. MITRE Technology & Engineering applies the expertise of technical staff and subject matter experts across our programs by fostering and developing technical talent, stewarding technical depth, conceiving and executing research, and ensuring MITRE’s capabilities—people, methods, labs, platforms, and environments—remain on the leading edge.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The Cloud Cybersecurity Architect will be a core member of the technical team and serve as the first-line support to our Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Sponsor in Huntsville, AL. The position requires direct in-person contributions to our Huntsville-based Sponsor and is an onsite position in Huntsville.

• Architect and develop secure cloud architectures and services while working with leading cloud service providers and important missions
• Research, specify, and implement cloud-based cyber security tools, techniques, and procedures
• Provide recommendations to ensure systems are specified, designed, developed, implemented, integrated, and sustained to meet security, resiliency, and safety needs, goals and objectives
• Research and develop unique, cutting‑edge technical capabilities and processes for understanding, assessing, and analyzing system and technology resilience and security
• Collaborate with senior government officials, providing technical and strategic advice to cyber challenges
• Apply knowledge of network architectures, security technologies, zero trust and cyber threats to provide customers the ability to protect, detect, and respond to cyber‑attacks directed against customer systems
• Leverage your vision and expertise to advance the state of the art in the use of AI/ML and zero trust to improve the security posture of government systems

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; 6 years of related experience with a Master’s degree; or 3 years of related experience with a PhD; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience
• Advanced ability to architect secure cloud solutions and to apply zero trust principles to the architecture of complex cloud‑hosted solutions
• Hands‑on experience designing and securing solutions on at least one major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, IBM, Cloud)
• Strong understanding of core security domains: IAM, network security, data protection, application security, logging and monitoring, and incident response in cloud environments
• Proven experience implementing security controls and patterns using cloud‑native services (e.g., security groups, WAF, KMS, IAM roles/policies, secrets management)
• Knowledge of security logging, telemetry, analytics, and orchestration technologies and their application within enterprise security architectures and zero trust
• Familiarity with emerging security technologies and patterns
• Strong knowledge of common attack techniques and threat landscapes
• Experience with cybersecurity technologies and tools, trends, and emerging capabilities
• Ability to lead and work with others to solve challenging technical problems
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences to include government senior executives
• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI U.S Government issued Security Clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain special programs access. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant professional certifications
• Understanding of security architecture frameworks, methodologies and standards
• Experience conducting or consuming threat modeling and translating results into design requirements
• Experience with U.S. Government policy guidance, including NIST RMF, NIST CSF, DoD 8500, CNSSI Instructions, Cybersecurity Executive Orders, JSIG, ICD 503, NIST SP 800 Series instructions, and NISPOM

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Top Secret/SCI

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

SAP

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$172,800 - $216,000 - $259,200 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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