Platform Security Architect - 4 days Onsite/Week

VITA Platform Security Architect.
WEEKLY ON SITE REQUIRED: 4 days/each week

Parking provided on site to contractors

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Platform Security Architect is a critical technical role responsible for ensuring the secure design and compliance of the platform's enterprise architecture. The Platform Security Architect will assist in ensuring systems complete needed steps in order to receive Authority to Operate, including but not limited to architectural design, System Security Plan, and compliance with organization design patterns. to effectively and securely support the organization in meeting specific business technology needs. This candidate will be considered a technical expert. Ideal candidates will have the following expectations, execute architecture design reviews to evaluate security controls and identify opportunities to enhance the security posture of the Commonwealths Platform services, build relationships with supplier infrastructure architects and engineering leads to disseminate and explain secure design methodologies and policies. Ideal candidates will also understand the landscape and components of cutting-edge architectures and the methods to securely deploy them.

Duties/Responsibilities:
As part of a team, ensure the adoption of security architecture and engineering initiatives in order to effectively and securely support the organization in meeting specific business technology needs.
Review solutions to be deployed in cloud and on premise environments
Assist with Architectural design documentation and System Security Plan documentation
Monitor and guide systems to ensure Authority to Operate is achieved in a timely manner
Understand technical security issues and the implications to the Platform and be able to communicate them to management and other business leaders.
Responsible for guiding the design and implementation of secure solutions and services across the Platform.
Maintain in-depth knowledge of IT industry best practices, technologies, architectures, and emerging technologies.
Must have knowledge and understanding to be able to configure and implement security solutions to reduce risk to an acceptable level.
Understand emerging security technologies and determine the appropriate use within business applications.
Must be able to provide technical guidance and foster a collective understanding of data flows and security issues encountered in both premise based and cloud applications and services.
Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies
Must be able to incorporate business drivers, needs and strategies to address future business / technology needs.
Work in teams for secure application and/or infrastructure solution architecture.
Collaborate with our Governance organization and functions including Internal Audit, Legal and Compliance, Privacy, and Sourcing to ensure that the Platform maintains a strong cybersecurity posture. Required/Desired Skills

Skill	Required /Desired	Amount	of Experience
Experience providing high-level design and architecture diagrams	Required	8	Years
technically validating solutions and connecting business, data, security, systems, and other technical and non-technical architectures	Required	8	Years
Familiarity with open architecture and cybersecurity architecture principles that achieve cybersecurity framework goals.	Required	8	Years
Familiar with encryption technologies used in commercial operating systems, including Public Key Infrastructures-continued	Required	8	Years
symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, certificate trust stores and the use of key escrow for discovery and legal purposes	Required	8	Years
At least 8 years of experience in network and endpoint security architecture	Required	8	Years
Familiarity with protocols commonly used in commercial networks, such as SMB, RPC, HTTP, SQL	Required	8	Years
Familiar with multi-tiered network applications, common ports and protocols used in those communications	Required	8	Years
Familiar with Vulnerability Scoring (CVSS) and exploitation mechanisms of common vulnerability types (overflows, cross-site-scripting, SQL injection)	Required	8	Years
Experience working with Cloud Native architecture paradigms, patterns and security methodologies.	Required	6	Years
Familiarity with NIST, IRS 1075, HIPAA, FedRAMP and other cybersecurity framworks	Required	8	Years
Familiar with methodologies for scalable, automated creation of System Security Plan, and Authority To Operate, Attestation & Validation	Required	4	Years
Candidate should have a background in general security practices such as identity and access management (IAM)-continued	Required	8	Years
Experience leading the alignment of on-going activities in support of critical State & Federal mandates such as -continued	Required	8	Years
Continuous Diagnostics and Monitoring (CDM), Executive Orders related to cybersecurity, and guidance from OMB and NIST	Required	8	Years
Familiarity with open architecture and cybersecurity architecture principles that achieve cybersecurity framework goals	Required	8	Years
Desired Skills / Certification: AWS Certified Security Azure Architect Certification Google Architect Certification	Desired	0
Desired Skills/Certs (continued)- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)	Desired	0

Questions

No.	Question
Question1	Commonwealth of Virginia security policies prohibit the use of offshore IT contractors. Do you attest to the fact that your candidate will physically reside within the US for the duration of the assignment?
Question2	Please list candidate's email address.
Question3	In what city and state does your candidate currently reside? Local Richmond candidates preferred due to ON SITE requirements. If you put they are in Richmond then please upload a copy of their drivers license to verify their local address.
Question4	ON SITE REQUIRED: 4 days /each week. If selected, does your candidate agree to this arrangement?
Question5	Pls make sure to highlight or BOLD (on your candidates resume) their exp with any of the REQUIRED and of DESIRED experience /skills - this helps you (and us) to determine their fit for the role.
Question6	Does your candidate have any of the DESIRED certs listed above? If so please make sure name of the cert is listed at the TOP of the resume. If not simply put NO in the skills matrix.