This is a remote position.

Security Architect

Project Overview

This position will serve as a Contract Security Engineer within the Department of Administration?s Division of Information Security. The successful candidate will have extensive experience supporting security automation, custom tool development, identity and access management, Linux systems, and a broad range of enterprise security technologies. The contractor will work with a large enterprise security team and collaborate with Security Automation Architects, Security Architects, Engineers, Analysts, and Incident Responders to design, develop, implement, integrate, and continuously improve security tools, automations, systems, and services supporting multiple State agencies.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Assist in the planning, design, development, deployment, administration, and operational support of enterprise security automations and custom security tools.
  
• Develop Python-based automations, internal web applications, APIs, SDKs, scripts, dashboards, command-line utilities, and system integrations.
  
• Develop automated workflows for alert enrichment, triage, incident response, case management, notifications, containment, escalation, and reporting.
  
• Develop custom tools for CVE vetting, vulnerability enrichment, prioritization, tracking, and security decision support.
  
• Assist with the planning, design, deployment, and operational support of security platforms including DSPM, ASM, IAM, vulnerability management, email security, endpoint security, SIEM, XDR, SOAR, logging, monitoring, network security, cloud security, and threat intelligence technologies.
  
• Support integrations with ticketing, case management, notification, identity, data sources, APIs, SDKs, and other enterprise systems.
  
• Support security technologies such as Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint, Tenable, Cribl, WhatsUp Gold, and other security products.
  
• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain automated security workflows, applications, and scripts using Python, PowerShell, Bash, REST APIs, JSON, YAML, vendor SDKs, and other appropriate technologies.
  
• Assist with IAM functions including user provisioning, deprovisioning, access reviews, RBAC, service accounts, API credentials, authentication, authorization, and identity-based system integrations.
  
• Deploy, configure, patch, monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot Linux systems supporting security sensors, collectors, connectors, applications, containers, and data-processing services, including Docker-based environments.
  
• Support Security Architects, Engineers, SOC Analysts, Incident Responders, and agency customers through troubleshooting, automation development, system integration, technical escalation, knowledge transfer, and operational handoffs.
  
• Monitor and report on automation health, application availability, system performance, sensor status, integration failures, API errors, vulnerability status, platform issues, and other operational metrics.
  
• Ensure high availability, resilience, backup, recovery, patching, lifecycle management, secure configuration, and controlled change processes for security tools, Linux systems, applications, automations, and supporting services.
  
• Collaborate with security teams and agency stakeholders to align solutions with business goals, industry-standard frameworks, regulatory requirements, and organizational risk tolerance.
  

Requirements

Education and Certifications:

• Bachelor?s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Security, or a related field.
  
• Eight years of relevant work experience; experience may be substituted instead of education.
  
• Five years of experience supporting large IT environments, security systems, software development, and/or system deployments.
  
• CISSP, Security+, GIAC, or other relevant cybersecurity certification.
  
• Linux, Python, Cloud, IAM, or other relevant security engineering or platform certification.
  

Required Skills:

• Broad hands-on security engineering experience supporting multiple cybersecurity technologies, systems, integrations, and operational functions.
  
• Experience developing security automations, scripts, integrations, utilities, and custom tools using Python.
  
• Strong experience troubleshooting complex technical issues across applications, security platforms, operating systems, networks, identity services, and integrations.
  
• Experience with Linux system deployment, configuration, patching, scripting, service management, monitoring, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.
  
• Experience developing automation and response workflows using Python, PowerShell, Bash, REST APIs, JSON, YAML, and vendor SDKs.
  
• Experience supporting IAM, DSPM, ASM, vulnerability management, email security, endpoint security, SIEM, SOAR, logging, monitoring, cloud security, and other enterprise security technologies.
  
• Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, incident response, networking, access control, secure software development, systems administration, and industry-standard cybersecurity frameworks.
  

Preferred Skills:

• Hands-on experience serving as a Security Engineering Generalist in a large, multi-tenant, shared-services, or managed-service environment.
  
• Hands-on experience with Linux, Docker, security sensors, monitoring, scripting, and platform administration.
  
• Experience supporting SOC Analysts, Security Engineers, Incident Responders, agency customers, and rapidly changing operational priorities.
  
• Familiarity with Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint, Tenable, Cribl, WhatsUp Gold (WUG), or other enterprise security technologies.
  
• Experience developing playbooks, runbooks, procedures, and technical documentation.
  

Additional Skills:

• Experience integrating enterprise technologies using APIs, SDKs, web services, structured data formats, authentication methods, and vendor-supported interfaces.
  
• Experience developing or supporting internal web applications, APIs, dashboards, databases, command-line tools, and related software components.
  
• Advanced Python development experience and familiarity with full-stack development, internal web applications, APIs, databases, source control, testing, and software deployment practices.
  

Benefits