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Security & Solutions Architect
Fulton, MD · Information Technology
Our Distinguished Client has an immediate opening for a Security & Solutions Architect. Client provides the first scalable commercial products to protect data when it’s most vulnerable – when it is being used or processed. Whether performing searches or analytics on data you own or seeking information from a third-party data provider, their solutions ensure nothing is ever revealed during the entire processing lifecycle. For federal customers, they provide the first certified solution for performing searches from classified/trusted domains against sources on untrusted or lower classification domains. Client’s solutions ensure that selectors stay encrypted and nothing is ever revealed during the entire processing lifecycle.
What you'll get to do
What you need to be successful
- Be a technical voice of the client, representing client to customers and customers to the engineering team
- Represent security interests
- Collaborate with Customer Success, Engineering, and strategic partners at the intersection of security requirements and product design.
- Act as a security leader through the company, focusing on usable and functional security.
- Ensure that the client's products are correctly positioned to meet security needs felt by the client's customers
- Conceptualize and architect the details of delivery to customers, including:
- use-case architecture
- queries
- data schema
- threat modeling
- understanding customer’s security posture, needs, and goals
- Lead and develop lightweight customer validation exercises
- Engage with strategic partners to architect integrated product solutions and features
- Provide an authoritative voice to represent the client's engineering thought process and domain expertise
- Decompose customer requirements into necessary engineering tasks and work with engineering to plan tickets to implement meet those tasks
- Be a customer advocate: drive customer feedback into support and engineering
- Help transition products and features from Engineering to Sales
What you need to be successful
- Experience as a solutions architect, engineer, and/or systems administrator
- B.S. or higher degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Familiarity with diverse technical topics including:
- Should have experience with:
- SQL and/or other query languages
- Data storage technologies/databases
- Cloud DevOps and Cloud services (for example: Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation; AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
- Designing system architecture
- Threat modeling, systems design for security, and risk assessment
- “Bonus” to have experience with:
- Cryptography and cryptographic protocols
- Linux system administration
- Machine learning
- Programming languages, especially Java and/or Python
- TLS protocol, Wireshark, OpenSSL command line, PKI
- Note: a successful candidate will be expected to have knowledge of some, but not all, of the topics above.
- Should have experience with:
- Desire and ability to learn new technical skills, quickly and constantly
- Willingness to travel (Customer dependent)
- US Citizenship
- Active TS/SCI clearance with full scope polygraph