Security Modernization Specialist (R-00234)

Truezerotech; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Best in class medical coverage

100% of medical premiums covered

Company-wide new business incentive

Contribution Incentives

3 weeks PTO + 11 paid holidays

401k with company match (up to 4%)

Monthly reimbursement of cell phone &

Paternity/Maternity Leave

Training and certifications investment

Job summary

True Zero Technologies is seeking a cybersecurity professional to advance Zero Trust modernization across federal environments. The role involves developing roadmaps, assessing architectures, and producing architecture views, technical documents, and briefings for leadership.

Candidates should have 5+ years of experience in security modernization, strong writing and presentation skills, and the ability to coordinate across stakeholders to drive modernization in on-prem and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of relevant cybersecurity modernization, Zero Trust, security architecture, or security engineering experience.
• Working knowledge of OMB M-22-09, CISA's Zero Trust Maturity Model, NIST SP 800-207, EO 14028, and federal Zero Trust guidance.
• Experience conducting architecture, tool, configuration, process, readiness, and gap assessments across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Experience developing implementation roadmaps, strategies, metrics, dashboards, schedules, risk registers, and technical recommendations.
• Strong facilitation, technical writing, presentation, stakeholder-coordination, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Apply Zero Trust principles and authoritative guidance, including OMB M-22-09, CISA's Zero Trust Maturity Model, NIST SP 800-207, and Executive Order 14028.
• Evaluate CBP architectures, tools, configurations, and procedures to document the current security posture and identify modernization gaps.
• Develop and maintain Zero Trust implementation and optimization roadmaps across identity, devices, networks, applications, workloads, data, visibility, automation, and governance.
• Assess technologies and recommend tools, configurations, and implementation priorities that improve Zero Trust maturity.
• Track modernization risks, issues, blockers, metrics, schedules, dashboards, and mitigation actions for Government leadership.
• Develop technical and nontechnical documentation, briefings, architecture views, operational views, network diagrams, and online knowledge content.
• Coordinate working groups and stakeholders to clarify responsibilities, resolve architecture issues, and align modernization efforts across CBP OIT.

Skills

Zero Trust

Security Architecture

Documentation

Stakeholder Coordination

Facilitation

Technical Writing

Presentation

Job description

True Zero Technologies, a veteran-owned small business, was founded on the principle that the purposeful enablement of people and technology in an organization directly ties to the quality of its outcomes. True Zero recognizes that those outcomes begin and end with our people, and that is what we have built a community of like-minded, driven, and passionate individuals and innovators who are aligned in a common goal of delivering top-tier services to our customers. Our culture and commitment have been recognized through numerous accolades, including being named one of the Best Places to Work in 2023 in two categories ("Prosperous and Thriving" ($5MM-$50MM in gross revenue) and "Mid-Atlantic Region" (DC, DE, MD, NC, VA, WV)), and again in 2025 as a Best Places to Work honoree. In addition, True Zero earned coveted spots on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in America in 2022, 2023, and 2025, a testament to our sustained growth driven by our people-first approach and unwavering dedication to excellence.

• Apply Zero Trust principles and authoritative guidance, including OMB M-22-09, CISA's Zero Trust Maturity Model, NIST SP 800-207, and Executive Order 14028.
• Evaluate CBP architectures, tools, configurations, and procedures to document the current security posture and identify modernization gaps.
• Develop and maintain Zero Trust implementation and optimization roadmaps across identity, devices, networks, applications, workloads, data, visibility, automation, and governance.
• Assess technologies and recommend tools, configurations, and implementation priorities that improve Zero Trust maturity.
• Track modernization risks, issues, blockers, metrics, schedules, dashboards, and mitigation actions for Government leadership.
• Develop technical and nontechnical documentation, briefings, architecture views, operational views, network diagrams, and online knowledge content.
• Coordinate working groups and stakeholders to clarify responsibilities, resolve architecture issues, and align modernization efforts across CBP OIT.

• Minimum 5 years of relevant cybersecurity modernization, Zero Trust, security architecture, or security engineering experience.
• Working knowledge of OMB M-22-09, CISA's Zero Trust Maturity Model, NIST SP 800-207, Executive Order 14028, and federal Zero Trust guidance.
• Experience conducting architecture, tool, configuration, process, readiness, and gap assessments across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Experience developing implementation roadmaps, strategies, metrics, dashboards, schedules, risk registers, and technical recommendations.
• Strong facilitation, technical writing, presentation, stakeholder-coordination, and documentation skills.

We're actively searching for talented security and technology practitioners who are ready to experience the True Zero difference. As a True Zero team member, you'll enjoy:

• Competitive salary, paid twice per month
• Best in class medical coverage
• 100% of medical premiums covered by True Zero
• Company wide new business incentive programs
• Contribution Incentives (i.e. white papers, blog posts, internal webinars, etc.)
• 3 weeks of PTO starting + 11 Paid Holidays Annually
• 401k Program with 100% company match on the first 4%
• Monthly reimbursement of Cell Phone and Home Internet costs
• Paternity/Maternity Leave
• Investment in training and certifications to broaden and deepen your technical skills