Remote Senior Cybersecurity Architect – Zero Trust

RemoteFetch; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401k with Employer Match

PTO + Federal Holidays

Corporate Laptop

Training Opportunities

Remote Opportunity

Job summary

VetsEZ seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to lead security architecture, engineering, and ATO activities for a federal healthcare modernization project. This remote, hands-on leadership role involves directing ISSO/ISSE teams, guiding continuous monitoring, and ensuring Zero Trust compliance across Census Bureau environments.

Travel to the DC area may be required. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in security engineering, CISSP, and strong Agile/DevSecOps and cloud experience, with excellent

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field with 10+ years in security engineering leadership.
• Current CISSP certification is required.
• 5+ years of security-engineering experience in Agile/DevSecOps and cloud projects.
• Extensive knowledge of ATOs, System Security Plans, Zero Trust, continuous monitoring, and federal security policy.
• Hands-on experience with application security testing, encryption, PKI, incident response, and defense-in-depth architectures.
• Strong communication, leadership, mentoring, customer engagement, collaboration, analytical, and remediation-planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead security architecture, engineering standards, procedures, and verification practices across complex environments.
• Provide technical leadership to ISSO and ISSE teams for security engineering, compliance, and remediation activities.
• Lead risk assessments, security-control assessments, strategy, service design, vulnerability management, and cybersecurity programs.
• Oversee ATO and SSP activities ensuring Zero Trust and continuous monitoring compliance.
• Design and guide static and dynamic application security testing and remediation with development teams.
• Communicate security requirements and remediation plans to Government and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Additional duties as needed to support project success.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Mentoring

Customer engagement

Collaboration

Analytical

Remediation planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field

Job description

VetsEZ seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to lead security architecture, engineering, and ATO activities for a federal healthcare modernization project. This remote, hands-on leadership role involves directing ISSO/ISSE teams, guiding continuous monitoring, and ensuring Zero Trust compliance across Census Bureau environments.

Travel to the DC area may be required. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in security engineering, CISSP, and strong Agile/DevSecOps and cloud experience, with excellent