Senior Cybersecurity Architect: Posture & NSPM Platform

IonQ, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite or hybrid work in Santa Clara

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) matching

Unlimited PTO

Parental/adoption leave

Home technology stipend

Job summary

IonQ, Inc. is seeking a senior security architect to design and own a security posture assessment rule framework across devices, networks, and access controls aligned with NIST CSF, CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, FISMA, and FedRAMP.

Build scalable systems for authoring, versioning, and deploying rules and policies, and translate emerging threats and CVEs into updates. The role leads risk scoring across enterprise environments, collaborates with platform engineering on rule execution and APIs, and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of cybersecurity, network security, or security architecture experience, with 5+ years in senior/principal network security posture roles.
• Deep hands-on NSPM platform experience and ability to operationalize posture rules at scale.
• Strong knowledge of NIST CSF, CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, FISMA, FedRAMP.
• Experience with firewall policy analysis and device hardening across major vendors.
• Ability to engage executives and collaborate with engineering on rule design and data models.
• Preferred CISSP, CISM, CCNP Security or equivalent credentials.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the security posture assessment rule framework for evaluating device configurations, network behaviors, and access controls against NIST CSF, CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, FISMA, and FedRAMP.
• Build and maintain a scalable system for authoring, versioning, managing, and deploying security posture rules and organizational policies.
• Monitor emerging threats, compliance requirements, regulatory changes, and CVEs, translating them into updated posture assessment rules.
• Define risk scoring and prioritization models across devices, network segments, and enterprise environments.
• Collaborate with platform engineering on scalable rule execution, data modeling, and APIs for rule ingestion, evaluation, and results delivery.
• Engage enterprise customers and internal stakeholders to translate compliance requirements into platform capabilities and provide authoritative security guidance.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to shape the NSPM roadmap and security posture capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and security analysts on posture rule design, threat modeling, compliance mapping, and rigorous rule review processes.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Network security

Security architecture

NSPM platforms

Policy enforcement

Threat modeling

Compliance mapping

CIS benchmarks

Tools

NSPM platforms tools

Firewall policy analysis

Security policy tooling

Job description

IonQ, Inc. is seeking a senior security architect to design and own a security posture assessment rule framework across devices, networks, and access controls aligned with NIST CSF, CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, FISMA, and FedRAMP.

Build scalable systems for authoring, versioning, and deploying rules and policies, and translate emerging threats and CVEs into updates. The role leads risk scoring across enterprise environments, collaborates with platform engineering on rule execution and APIs, and