Senior Cybersecurity Architect Zero Trust

Socket.dev; Fairborn (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sumaria Systems is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Architect - Zero Trust to support NASIC and modernize sensitive environments at Wright-Patterson AFB. You will provide senior advisory expertise across Zero Trust architecture, cybersecurity modernization, and enterprise network strategy, collaborating with government and technical teams.

The role requires a decade of related experience, DoD/IC familiarity, and the ability to translate complex requirements into actionable modernization roadmaps

Qualifications

• United States Citizenship.
• Demonstrated cybersecurity architecture experience within complex enterprise environments.
• Working knowledge of Zero Trust concepts and architecture principles.
• Experience with enterprise network, cloud, data, application, or identity security architectures.
• Understanding of DoD RMF requirements and processes.
• translate gaps into modernization recommendations.
• Ability to communicate complex cybersecurity concepts to both technical and senior stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work across Government, engineering, intelligence, cyber, data, and acquisition organizations.

Responsibilities

• Assess architectures against DoD Zero Trust principles and identify gaps and risks.
• Develop and evaluate Zero Trust architectures across IAM, devices, networks, data, and workloads.
• Translate mission requirements into actionable architectures and roadmaps.
• Support enterprise architecture and network design in classified environments.
• Evaluate identity-centric access, least-privilege, and policy enforcement.
• Assess cloud capabilities for security and interoperability for DoD environments.
• Support secure data architectures addressing access control and governance.
• Recommend solutions to improve mission security while enabling agility.
• Collaborate with data engineers, cloud architects, network engineers, and software teams.
• Support architecture reviews, trade studies, and risk assessments.
• Identify opportunities to use automation, analytics, and AI/ML for security visibility.
• Integrate Zero Trust with DevSecOps, cloud-native development, and modernization.

Skills

10+ years exp

DoD/IC exp

Zero Trust concepts

Communication skills

Analytical/problem solving

Leadership / collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, CS, IT, Systems Eng, or related

Job description

Job Posting Title

Senior Cybersecurity Architect - Zero Trust

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Cybersecurity Architect - Zero Trust

The National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) delivers scientific and technical intelligence that helps the United States understand foreign air, space, missile, cyber, and related threat capabilities. Protecting the systems, networks, cloud environments, and data that enable this mission requires cybersecurity that is built into the enterprise—not added after the fact.

This position supports NASIC through the Advisory Support & Technical Requirement Administration (ASTRA) effort, providing cybersecurity and enterprise architecture expertise supporting the modernization of highly sensitive intelligence environments. Working alongside Government personnel and multidisciplinary technical teams, you will help NASIC advance Zero Trust principles across complex cloud, network, data, identity, application, and mission architectures.

In this role, you will provide senior technical and advisory support for Zero Trust Architecture, cybersecurity modernization, and enterprise network strategy. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Assess existing enterprise and mission architectures against Department of Defense Zero Trust principles and identify capability gaps, technical risks, and modernization priorities.
• Develop and evaluate Zero Trust architectures and implementation strategies across identity, credential and access management; devices; networks and environments; applications and workloads; data; visibility and analytics; and automation and orchestration.
• Translate mission requirements and cybersecurity policy into executable technical architectures, modernization roadmaps, and implementation recommendations.
• Support enterprise architecture and network design activities across classified and mission-sensitive environments.
• Evaluate identity-centric and attribute-based access approaches, including least-privilege access, continuous authentication and authorization, segmentation, and policy enforcement.
• Assess cloud and commercial cloud capabilities for security, interoperability, scalability, and suitability within DoD and Intelligence Community environments.
• Support development of secure data architectures addressing access control, data protection, tagging, governance, movement, and sharing.
• Evaluate emerging cybersecurity technologies and recommend solutions that improve mission security while enabling operational agility.
• Collaborate with data engineers, cloud architects, network engineers, software teams, intelligence professionals, and cybersecurity personnel to integrate security throughout the technology lifecycle.
• Support cybersecurity architecture reviews, technical exchange meetings, trade studies, risk assessments, and alternatives analyses.
• Identify opportunities to employ automation, analytics, and AI/ML capabilities to improve enterprise cybersecurity visibility and decision-making.
• Support integration of Zero Trust principles with DevSecOps, cloud-native development, and broader digital modernization initiatives.
• Assist Government leadership with cybersecurity strategy, policy development, technical documentation, and executive-level decision briefings.
• Maintain awareness of evolving DoD, Department of the Air Force, Intelligence Community, and industry cybersecurity standards and Zero Trust implementation guidance.
• Develop clear technical recommendations that balance mission effectiveness, cybersecurity risk, interoperability, cost, and implementation feasibility.

Required Skills/Education

Education: Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Years of Experience: Ten (10) or more years of relevant cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, network architecture, cloud security, systems engineering, or related technical experience. Experience supporting Department of Defense or Intelligence Community environments is strongly desired.

Required Qualifications

• United States Citizenship.
• Demonstrated cybersecurity architecture experience within complex enterprise environments.
• Working knowledge of Zero Trust concepts and architecture principles.
• Experience with enterprise network, cloud, data, application, or identity security architectures.
• Understanding of DoD cybersecurity requirements and Risk Management Framework (RMF) processes.
• Ability to assess current-state architectures and translate technical gaps into actionable modernization recommendations.
• Strong analytical and technical problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to communicate complex cybersecurity concepts to both technical personnel and senior decision makers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively across Government, engineering, intelligence, cyber, data, and acquisition organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience supporting NASIC or another Intelligence Community organization.
• Experience developing or implementing DoD Zero Trust architectures or modernization roadmaps.
• Experience with Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), microsegmentation, Software Defined Networking, or policy-based access control.
• Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or other commercial/cloud environments supporting Government missions.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps, containerized environments, APIs, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with data governance, data security, enterprise data architectures, or cross-domain information sharing.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity analytics, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), endpoint security, continuous monitoring, or security orchestration technologies.
• Experience conducting architecture assessments, trade studies, Analysis of Alternatives, technical evaluations, or technology scouting.
• CISSP, CCSP, Security+, AWS/Azure security certification, or other relevant cybersecurity certification.

Travel

Occasional travel may be required in support of mission requirements.

Security Clearance Required

Active Top Secret Security Clearance with SCI eligibility/access.

Position Type

Full Time

Work Location

Wright-Patterson AFB / Dayton, OH area (Onsite)

Why Join Sumaria Systems

• Supporting the National Air and Space Intelligence Center's critical national security mission
• Contributing directly to the modernization of Intelligence Community capabilities
• Opportunity to work across cybersecurity, cloud, data, AI/ML, enterprise architecture, and emerging technologies
• Over 40 years supporting the Department of Defense
• Expertise across:
  • Cybersecurity
  • Digital Engineering
  • Intelligence & ISR
  • Systems Engineering
  • Data & Analytics
  • Mission Modernization

Additional Information

• Position is contingent upon task order award and customer requirements
• No agency submissions accepted
• Learn more: www.sumaria.com
• Equal Opportunity Employer