Senior Cybersecurity Architect: Zero Trust & Cloud Strategy

9th Way Insignia; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Voluntary Life Insurance

401(k)

Job summary

9th Way Insignia seeks a Cybersecurity Architect to support the Department of Veterans Affairs COSE program. This role focuses on enterprise security architectures for Zero Trust, cloud, and hybrid environments, delivering roadmaps, patterns, and security requirements.

Strong communication to technical and nontechnical stakeholders is essential. The position requires a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) and 10+ years in security architecture, with experience in large enterprises or government

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, CS, information systems, engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of enterprise security architecture, systems architecture, or cybersecurity engineering experience.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust, IAM, network segmentation, cloud security, and NIST/RMF frameworks.
• Experience designing/evaluating security architecture in large enterprise or government environments.
• Ability to communicate complex architecture decisions to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and assess enterprise security architectures for Zero Trust, cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
• Develop architecture roadmaps, reference patterns, security requirements, and transition plans.
• Analyze designs, data flows, identity patterns, and control dependencies for security risks.
• Advise teams and leadership on security architecture decisions, tradeoffs, remediation priorities.
• Produce architecture diagrams, design docs, and executive briefings.

Skills

Zero Trust

Identity & Access Management

Security architectures

Communication to stakeholders

Security frameworks (NIST RMF)

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

9th Way Insignia seeks a Cybersecurity Architect to support the Department of Veterans Affairs COSE program. This role focuses on enterprise security architectures for Zero Trust, cloud, and hybrid environments, delivering roadmaps, patterns, and security requirements.

Strong communication to technical and nontechnical stakeholders is essential. The position requires a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) and 10+ years in security architecture, with experience in large enterprises or government