Senior Cybersecurity Architect – DoD AI & Cloud

Koniag Government Services; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Life and disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Commuter benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Koniag Government Services is seeking a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer to provide senior technical leadership in cybersecurity engineering, architecture, and DoD-aligned security for enterprise, data, cloud, and AI modernization initiatives in Washington, DC. The role emphasizes risk-based architecture, secure integration, and DoD RMF compliance.

The candidate will advise executives, work with engineers and cloud teams, and guide DevSecOps practices while solving complex security challenges in

Qualifications

• TS/SCI eligible
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline
• 10–15+ years in cybersecurity/security engineering or related
• Experience in senior/principal/lead roles
• Designing and securing complex enterprise systems in DoW/IC or similar
• Advanced knowledge of security architecture and engineering
• Strong DoW RMF and NIST standards knowledge
• Expertise with NIST SP 800-53, controls, assessment, and continuous monitoring
• Zero Trust architecture knowledge and implementation
• Experience securing cloud environments (AWS/Azure) and IAM
• Networking security, encryption, logging, SIEM, and security monitoring
• Experience with DevSecOps and secure SDLC integration
• Ability to communicate security risks to engineers and executives
• Leadership of technical initiatives on highly complex cybersecurity challenges

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior cybersecurity authority for DoW systems, data platforms, and AI initiatives
• Develop and evaluate architectures for cloud/hybrid/classified environments
• Integrate security across SDLC and deployment
• Design and implement Zero Trust controls (identity, access, device, network)
• Develop security architectures for data platforms supporting AI/ML and analytics
• Assess architectures to identify vulnerabilities and mission risk
• Support security across AWS, Azure, government cloud, and classified cloud
• Lead IAM, PKI, encryption, key management, secrets, and API security
• Collaborate with data, software, AI/ML, cloud, and gov cybersecurity teams
• Support DevSecOps practices: automated testing, vulnerability mgmt, SBOM, container security
• Evaluate AI/ML and API security implications for security posture
• Advise leadership on risk, architecture tradeoffs, and mitigations
• Support Authority to Operate and cybersecurity authorization aligned with risk reduction
• Review SSPs, strategies, architectures, CONOPs, interfaces, designs
• Participate in evaluations, planning, source selections, and assessments

Skills

Zero Trust

IAM / PKI

Cloud security

NIST RMF

DevSecOps

Security architecture

Risk communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity / CS / ECE / IT

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

GitLab/GitHub

Job description

Koniag Government Services is seeking a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer to provide senior technical leadership in cybersecurity engineering, architecture, and DoD-aligned security for enterprise, data, cloud, and AI modernization initiatives in Washington, DC. The role emphasizes risk-based architecture, secure integration, and DoD RMF compliance.

The candidate will advise executives, work with engineers and cloud teams, and guide DevSecOps practices while solving complex security challenges in