SECURITY ARCHITECTMILITARY FRIENDLY  PREFERRED - HOH SPONSORZermount Inc. is seeking looking for a highly talented, technical hands-on Security Architect to help accelerate our Security Program for a client in the Government Sector. You will use your exceptional security knowledge and hands-on technical knowledge and skills to help support our client with developing, reviewing, and modernizing IT technology and secure and compliant architectures and implementations.DUTIES  RESPONSIBILITIESDevelop  maintain the Enterprise Security Architecture (ESA) strategy, roadmap  capabilities matrix, outlining capabilities (current  future: tools, technologies  processes), with path to achieve optimal maturity. Create  maintain the ESA diagrams depicting capabilities, identify duplicates, gaps  provide actionable recommendations. Update and maintain the client's Zero Trust strategy  develops the Zero trust Architecture (ZTA) implementation plan  integrates into the roadmap.Leads assessments  evaluations of new or replacement capabilities and tools to meet future or changing needs. This includes tool functionality and complexity of implementation, compliance with client  NIST requirements,  interoperability with existing or planned capabilities.Plans  conducts Proof of Concept (PoC) deployments within the client enterprise and/or in external vendor environments.Understands  evaluates business, technical  functional requirements, translating mission goals  operational directives into actional recommendations.Understand requirements, use cases, implementation challenges, client road maps  operational pain pointsDesigns solutions for existing  ongoing implementations  supports implementation efforts. This includes tool evaluation, adoption, implementation  phase-out; system integration development and implementation; and feature/content development.Develops schedules, work breakdown structures (WBS's)  project schedules. Collaborates with internal  external teams  ensures client  NIST compliance. Serves as a Team Lead and provides services as a cross functional team member - support other Task Areas as required.Ensures all SLA's are met. REQUIRED SKILLS:High level of attention to detail, needs minimal guidance, effective verbal, and written communications.Equally adept at strategic planning and operational/technical level.Able to adapt to new and changing requirements or priorities and manage work and resources accordingly.At least 10 years of hands-on technical IT and cybersecurity experience. To include experience with: LAN/WAN, WAF/CDN/DDOS, Network Firewalls, IDS/IPS.Virtualization, hypervisor security, container security.Application development, serverless security, microservices, CICD.Designing and/or implementing security in Cloud (AWS required, Azure or GCP optional): Multi-Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, shared responsibility model. AWS IAM, KMS, S3, RDS, SNS/SQS, Organization, Guard Duty, Security Hub, Detective, Config, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Lambda.EDUCATIONA minimum of a Bachelor of Science in one of the following: Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity or similar field. CERTIFICATIONSA minimum of one security certification from the DOD 8570 IAM Level III or IAT Level III approved baseline. Additionally, one of the following certifications are preferred, Project Management Professional (PMP), IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), or Scaled Agile (SAFe). CLEARANCEA favorable Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) and agency suitability is required. WORK LOCATIONPrimary location resides at Zermount HQ. Remote work is authorized. Occasional travel to the primary location and client site maybe required.HOURS OF OPERATIONBusiness Hours: 7:00 am EST - 7:00 pm EST | Core Hours: 8:00 am - 4:00pm EST