Security Architect

Peraton; United States; Remote; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Security Architect to design, develop, and govern enterprise security architectures across information systems, applications, and cloud environments. You will establish security principles, reference designs, and standards aligned with federal requirements and risk tolerance.

This remote role requires coordinating with security engineering, DevSecOps, and cloud teams while ensuring governance across the system development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship with ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years experience, or Master 10+ years, or other combos per policy.
• Relevant certifications: CISSP, CISM, CASP, CCISO, Security+ or CAP.
• Experience designing Zero Trust and identity-centric architectures.
• FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud or Azure Government experience.
• Proven security architecture design for complex enterprise, cloud, or federal systems.
• Strong grasp of security principles, threat modeling, defense-in-depth, least privilege.
• Experience applying security frameworks, including NIST SP 800-53.
• Ability translate security requirements into technical designs and controls.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise security architecture principles and standards.
• Translate requirements into secure architectural solutions across apps, infra, networks, and cloud.
• Conduct security architecture reviews and threat modeling to identify risks.
• Define security requirements for new systems and integrations.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and provide secure architecture recommendations.
• Establish architecture governance and lifecycle security considerations.
• Provide guidance to security engineering, DevSecOps, cloud, and app teams.
• Establish secure integration patterns for monitoring, IR, vulnerability mgmt, and threat detection.
• Review designs and implementation plans for alignment with standards.
• Support selection and integration of security technologies per needs.

Skills

Zero Trust

Identity security

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Defense-in-depth

Least privilege

NIST SP 800-53

Security controls

Federated security

Cloud security

FedRAMP/AWS GovCloud

Azure Government

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Associates Degree

High School Diploma

Tools

CISSP

CISM

CASP

CCISO

Security+

Job description

About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

About The Role

Peraton is seeking a Security Architect responsible for designing, developing, and governing enterprise security architectures that protect information systems, applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, and sensitive data. This role establishes security architecture principles, reference designs, technical standards, and implementation patterns aligned with organizational risk tolerance, mission objectives, and applicable federal security requirements.

Work Location

This is a remote position, but candidate must be willing to work during the hours of 8am - 5pm EST

This position is contingent upon contract award

What You Will Do

• Develop and maintain enterprise security architecture principles, reference architectures, technical standards, and security design patterns.
• Translate business, mission, and regulatory requirements into secure architectural solutions across applications, infrastructure, networks, endpoints, and cloud environments.
• Conduct security architecture reviews and threat modeling to identify design weaknesses, architectural risks, and opportunities to strengthen security controls.
• Define security requirements for new systems, technology integrations, modernization initiatives, and enterprise platforms.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and provide architecture recommendations that balance security, scalability, performance, cost, and operational requirements.
• Establish architecture governance processes and ensure security considerations are incorporated throughout the system development lifecycle.
• Provide technical architecture guidance to security engineering, DevSecOps, cloud platform, infrastructure, and application teams.
• Establish secure integration patterns for security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, and threat detection capabilities.
• Review technical designs, solution proposals, and implementation plans to validate alignment with security architecture standards.
• Support the selection and integration of security technologies based on technical requirements, threat models, and organizational needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance
• Bachelors Degree and 12 years of experience, a Masters Degree and 10 years of experience, an Associates Degree and 14 years, or a High School Diploma or equivalent and 16 years of experience
• One or more of the following relevant certifications: CISSP, CISM, CASP, CCISO, Security+, or CAP
• Experience designing Zero Trust and identity-centric architectures, including FICAM-aligned identity, credential and access management.
• FedRAMP and AWS GovCloud or Azure Government experience
• Demonstrated experience designing and reviewing security architectures for complex enterprise, cloud, hybrid, or federal information systems.
• Strong understanding of security architecture principles, threat modeling, defense-in-depth, least privilege, identity security, encryption, and network security.
• Experience applying security frameworks and controls, including NIST SP 800-53 and other applicable federal or industry standards.
• Proven experience translating security requirements into technical architecture designs, implementation standards, and security control specifications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
• AWS Certified Security - Specialty certification, or an architecture certification such as SABSA, TOGAF, or CISSP-ISSAP
• Experience with federal agency modernization roadmaps

Details

Target Salary Range: $112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

EEO

Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.