DoD Cloud Security Architect — Hybrid & RMF Expert

Age Solutions; Salem (PA); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 Days Paid Leave

Performance Bonuses

401(k) with Match

Life Insurance

Health Benefits

Parental Leave

Military Differential Pay

Professional Growth

Shared Success

Job summary

AGE Solutions is a premier technology and professional services company delivering cybersecurity architecture and engineering for DoD environments. The Cloud Security Architect will design secure cloud-native solutions, review architectures, and guide mission-critical systems with ISSMs and ISSOs, ensuring risk is mitigated from design through implementation.

Requirements include a DoD Top Secret clearance, 10+ years in security architecture, and commutable distance to Fort Meade, MD or

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of related experience.
• DoD 8140 Work Role 652 - Security Architect Certification requirement (must have at least one of the following): Security X/CASP+CE, CCSP, Cloud+, CISSP, CSSLP, CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, CISSP-ISSIP, CSSLP, and GSEC.
• Must have and maintain a current DoD Top Secret clearance.
• Must reside within a commutable distance of Fort Meade, MD or Chambersburg, PA in order to work a hybrid onsite schedule (4 days onsite weekly).
• Demonstrated cloud and cloud-native security architecture experience.
• Demonstrated expertise securing APIs, microservices, containerized workloads, Kubernetes/Docker, serverless functions, and software-defined networking.
• Expert knowledge of RMF, NIST SP 800-37, and NIST SP 800-53.
• Practical knowledge of DoD STIGs, SRGs, and applicable DoD cybersecurity requirements.
• Ability to translate compliance requirements into concrete technical engineering solutions.
• Experience evaluating architectures, system relationships, interfaces, and data flows.
• Strong consulting, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to support multiple systems and projects in a high-tempo environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, review, and recommend secure architectures for cloud, hybrid, distributed, and cloud-native environments.
• Perform security architecture and design reviews to identify design-level weaknesses and recommend appropriate mitigations.
• Provide specialized security guidance for APIs, microservices, containerized workloads, Docker, Kubernetes, serverless functions, and software-defined networking.
• Analyze cloud architectures, system interfaces, trust boundaries, network segmentation, and data flows for cybersecurity risk.
• Translate RMF, NIST, DoD cybersecurity, and hardening requirements into actionable cloud engineering solutions.
• Collaborate with system owners, developers, and architects during requirements development, design reviews, modernization efforts, and implementation.
• Recommend practical technical controls such as multi-factor authentication, encryption, secure network zoning, access controls, and other security mechanisms.
• Support vulnerability remediation and development of technically sound mitigation strategies that reduce attack surface while maintaining mission capability.
• Provide technical recommendations to ISSMs/ISSOs and clearly communicate architectural risks and mitigation alternatives to Government stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud security

Security architecture

RMF/NIST

DoD 8140

Kubernetes/Docker

Top Secret clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

AGE Solutions is a premier technology and professional services company delivering cybersecurity architecture and engineering for DoD environments. The Cloud Security Architect will design secure cloud-native solutions, review architectures, and guide mission-critical systems with ISSMs and ISSOs, ensuring risk is mitigated from design through implementation.

Requirements include a DoD Top Secret clearance, 10+ years in security architecture, and commutable distance to Fort Meade, MD or