Enterprise Security Architect

Futrend Technology; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Futrend Technology, Inc. is seeking an Enterprise Security Architect to join a high-performing team responsible for solving complex federal security challenges through advanced analytics, automation, and scalable security engineering.

This role is ideal for an architect-level security professional who thrives in data-driven environments, enjoys building cross-platform security visibility, and can translate technical complexity into actionable insights for both operational teams and executive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years of information security experience, including 3+ years focused on cloud security
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical findings into actionable insights

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and operationalize end-to-end security visibility across large-scale federal environments
• Integrate and correlate data from multiple security and infrastructure platforms to deliver accurate, authoritative security insights
• Develop scalable security analytics, dashboards, and reporting aligned with compliance and operational requirements
• Serve as a technical bridge between security, cloud, operations, and leadership teams
• Enable continuous improvement of vulnerability posture, asset coverage, and compliance metrics through automation and engineering rigor
• Support audit-ready security reporting aligned with federal standards and mandates
• Advice leadership on latest security trends
• Research and stay on top of security threats, vulnerabilities

Skills

Security communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud security (3+ yrs)

Security analytics

Python for automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related

Tools

Tenable Security Center

Nessus

Splunk

Python

Job description

Futrend Technology, Inc. is an innovative business and technology solutions provider delivering high-value IT services to federal agencies. Our core competencies include Healthcare IT, Federal Financial Management, and Grants Management, with proven success in complex, real-time system integration and enterprise-wide implementations.

By leveraging industry best practices, modern technologies, and a customer-centric approach, Futrend supports mission-critical federal programs with measurable results. Our team is built on values of integrity, excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement, and we actively invest in our people's professional growth.

We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

Position Overview

Futrend Technology is seeking an Enterprise Security Architectto join a high-performing team responsible for solving complex federal security challenges through advanced analytics, automation, and scalable security engineering.

This role is ideal for an architect-level security professional who thrives in data-driven environments, enjoys building cross-platform security visibility, and can translate technical complexity into actionable insights for both operational teams and executive leadership. The position offers the opportunity to work on high-visibility federal systems that directly support cybersecurity, compliance, and risk management objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and operationalize end-to-end security visibility across large-scale federal environments
• Integrate and correlate data from multiple security and infrastructure platforms to deliver accurate, authoritative security insights
• Develop scalable security analytics, dashboards, and reporting aligned with compliance and operational requirements
• Serve as a technical bridge between security, cloud, operations, and leadership teams
• Enable continuous improvement of vulnerability posture, asset coverage, and compliance metrics through automation and engineering rigor
• Support audit-ready security reporting aligned with federal standards and mandates
• Advice leadership on latest security trends
• Research and stay on top of security threats, vulnerabilities

Required Qualifications & Capabilities

Core Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical findings into actionable insights
• Strong collaboration and problem-solving abilities in cross-functional environments
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years of information security experience, including 3+ years focused on cloud security

Security Architecture & Visibility

• Proven ability to design and maintain cross-platform security visibility models spanning vulnerability management, endpoint security, logging and analytics platforms and cloud and on-premise environments
• Deep understanding of authoritative asset inventories, agent coverage validation, and vulnerability posture tracking in large enterprise or federal environments
• Experience correlating security telemetry across diverse tools to produce reliable operational and executive-level insights

Vulnerability Management & Tenable Engineering

• Advanced, hands-on expertise with Tenable Security Center and Nessus, including:
• Ability to create custom vulnerability analytics beyond native tool interfaces
• Experience normalizing vulnerability data by plugin Id, asset characteristics, operating system, vulnerability age
• Strong capabilities in large-scale filtering, including CIDR ranges, IP segmentation, and dynamic exclusions

Splunk Engineering & Security Analytics

• Advanced Splunk engineering skills, including complex SPL development
• Experience building and maintaining production-grade XML dashboards for both operations and executive stakeholders
• Proficiency in Lookup-based normalization and asset resolution and enrichment workflows
• Ability to develop snapshots, trending views, and compliance metrics with high data accuracy and integrity
• Strong proficiency in Python for security automation, analytics and reporting, and custom operational tooling
• Experience developing tools that integrate with security platform APIs to normalize and enrich data, correlate assets across systems, and validate agent health and coverage

Cloud Security & Compliance

• Strong working knowledge of AWS and Azure security including: logging and telemetry, resource tagging strategies, and ephemer asset tracking
• Experience aligning security reporting with FedRAMP and OMB M-21-31 requirements
• Ability to translate compliance mandates into measurable, technical security controls

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in regulated federal environments with complex governance and compliance requirements
• AWS Certified Security - Specialty (or equivalent cloud security certification)