Enterprise Security Architect - Steampunk

Design. Disrupt. Repeat.

Steampunk is looking for an experienced and highly skilled Enterprise Security Architect to join our team. As an Enterprise Security Architect at Steampunk, you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing robust security solutions for our clients within the federal government sector. If you are a seasoned security professional with a appetite for taking on new challenges and passion for ensuring the highest level of security for federal government clients; we invite you to apply and become an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence.

Who We Are

Steampunk is the explosive collision of human-centered design and traditional government contracting. An employee-owned company with a startup mindset and time-tested approaches tailored for the federal government, we’re passionate about creating solutions that are impactful, practical, scalable, and most importantly, that meet our clients’ ever-changing needs. At Steampunk, we believe in disrupting the status quo and setting the pace in the ecosystem of government contractors, while creatively improving tried-and-true methodologies. We believe in empowering our people to find innovative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone. While good design makes for a good product, we believe human-centered design makes for an excellent one.

Why Steampunk?

Our people are the very core of what we do; their expertise and hunger for new and exciting challenges fuel our relentless pursuit of mission success. As part of our team, you’ll test the status quo, explore new boundaries, and set the bar high for how government clients expect to engage with contractors.

Because we value our employees’ work/life balance (and believe those who work hard deserve to play hard), we offer a very competitive benefits package, including telework/flex scheduling, health/dental with orthodontics/vision insurance upon hire, paid time off with a sell-back benefit and carryover option, 11 Federal Holidays, 100% paid military leave, 100% 401(k) plan match upon hire, professional development/education reimbursement, all flexible spending accounts, and more. 

We believe effective teams are powered by diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. To that end, Steampunk is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability status, and protected veteran status, amongst our ranks.  Additionally, we participate in the E-Verify program.

Responsibilities

As an Enterprise Security Architect, you are responsible for designing and implementing robust security solutions for our clients that exceed their expectations and reduce the risk to the Enterprise and mission; you will work with Executive staff, security subject matter experts, policy council, infrastructure and cloud support, software engineers, test automation engineers, designers, and product owners to bring our teams conceptual solutions to life in a mature Agile/SecDevOps environment. You will be leveraging your experience by working with different application teams and technology stacks to provide our clients with exceptional solutions, updated process and functional implementations.

• Implement and oversee cloud strategies include migrations and optimization
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers 
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Perform root cause analysis on complex business processes and technical components. 
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats 
• Support enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure through infrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD 
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations 
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize and modernize software systems 
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other team members.

Contributions

As a senior member of the security staff, you will play an key role shaping the direction of agency security and risk management programs by performing a wide array of Cyber Security support activities with emphasis on mobile and cloud security. You will continually assess the organization’s existing IT security program, tools and processes in relation to key agency mission, security goals, and objectives in order to develop and implement solutions resulting in improved security, service quality and delivery for all mission stakeholders.  You will lead the development, engineering and implementation sustainable security solutions designed to address gaps within the agency information security program. You are required to assess and articulate risk in relation to mission/business objectives and processes. You will spearhead the documentation of security processes and status in support of agency risk management and modernization of security authorization (also referred to as C&A or A&A) and continuous monitoring activities.

Required Skills

• Must be US Citizen with ability to obtain a public trust
• Minimum of 16 years of hands-on experience in the field of cybersecurity.
• BA or BS Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field, or equivalent experience required
• Expert knowledge of cloud architectures and implementations (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Extensive experience working with federal government agencies and a deep understanding of their security needs.
• Proven ability to design and implement security solutions that align with industry standards and regulations.
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical, non-technical stakeholders and Executive stakeholders.
• Experience developing comprehensive security architectures and strategies that align with federal government regulations and standards.
• Experience writing and evaluating user stories, acceptance criteria, and pull-requests
• Working knowledge of Git and repository providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Demonstrate sharp, analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills

Preferred Skills / Attributes

• Experience leading the design and implementation of security solutions, with a particular focus on cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proven ability to design and implement security solutions that align with industry standards and regulations.
• Experience working in Human Centered Design, Agile and DevSecOps environments
• Experience performing risk assessments, threat modeling, and vulnerability management.
• A passion to contribute to the full stack – the front-end, backend and anything in-between (middleware or otherwise).

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors.  Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges.  As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.