Senior Cloud Architect/DevSecOps Security Architect - WI

Job Title: Cloud Architect
Location: 100% Remote (Candidate must be a Wisconsin resident)

Occasional onsite visits 1–2 times during the contract at Madison, WI
Duration: 12 Months
Interview: Virtual (Microsoft Teams) with the CISO

Job Summary

The State of Wisconsin is seeking a senior Cloud Architect/DevSecOps Security Architect to serve as a trusted technical advisor to the CISO while leading the implementation of an AI-driven cybersecurity and vulnerability remediation program. This role combines executive-level advisory responsibilities with hands-on cloud architecture, DevSecOps engineering, security automation, and knowledge transfer.

Required Skills

• Proven experience advising CISOs, CIOs, or executive leadership in large enterprise or government environments.
• Strong Cloud Architecture and DevSecOps engineering experience.
• Expertise implementing security controls, vulnerability management (SI-2), remediation workflows, and risk governance.
• Hands-on experience with:
• Google SecOps
• Google Threat Intelligence / VirusTotal
• Mandiant ASM
• Tenable.io
• Microsoft Azure Arc
• GitHub & GitHub Advanced Security
• Ansible Tower
• Gemini Government / Anthropic AI security frameworks
• Experience mentoring engineering teams and driving knowledge transfer.
• Experience building security automation, AI-assisted remediation, and CI/CD security pipelines.

Preferred Skills

• Public sector or government environment experience.
• Experience across Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Splunk.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic technical advisor to the State CISO.
• Lead implementation of the SI-2 Flaw Remediation Standard.
• Build AI-powered security automation and DevSecOps pipelines.
• Integrate enterprise security platforms (Tenable, Mandiant, Azure Arc, Splunk, Google SecOps).
• Develop automated vulnerability remediation, exception management, and governance workflows.
• Mentor internal security teams through a "teach-by-doing" approach.

Work Authorization / Location

• Must be a Wisconsin resident
• Remote with only 1–2 onsite visits during the engagement.

Candidate Checklist

• ✔ CISO/CIO advisory experience
• ✔ Cloud Architecture
• ✔ DevSecOps & CI/CD Security
• ✔ Vulnerability Management (SI-2)
• ✔ Google SecOps / Mandiant / Tenable.io
• ✔ Azure Arc
• ✔ GitHub Advanced Security
• ✔ Ansible Tower
• ✔ Gemini Government / Enterprise AI Security
• ✔ Government or large enterprise experience
• ✔ Wisconsin resident