Remote Cybersecurity Solutions Architect

Summary

Join a dynamic team as Cybersecurity Solutions Architect in the USDA Office of the CIO's Information Security Center. This is a surge support role lasting approximately 4 months, supporting operational environments and cybersecurity architecture development.

Requirements

• Cybersecurity Architecture background. More software and process focused on solutions
• Background in NIST, OMB, DoD, DHS, FISMA, and other government work
• Background in Supply Chain Management extremely important
• Experience motivating teams in a virtual environment
• Familiarity with Cloud Services

Responsibilities

• Attend all USDA internal architecture meetings (relevant to cybersecurity)
• Coordinate with varying security Focus Groups to leverage the architecture
• Coordinate across USDA, as required, to gain inputs and insights to assist in development and implementation of a USDA Cybersecurity Architecture
• Create, Collect, and Post all cybersecurity architecture documentation to a shared data repository
• Assist USDA in cybersecurity architecture assessment, design, development and planning of current and future technical and functional/business systems by depicting technical, systems and functional architecture views as required
• Facilitate and develop plans which will enable information sharing, integration, and interoperability while considering service-oriented architecture best practices by aligning with overarching Federal and DHS architectures
• Research and identify new and emerging technologies for potential insertion into current and future programs, and the cybersecurity architecture baseline, based on a business case analysis (e.g., cloud services, Big Data analysis, block chain, zero trust, IOT, and AI)
• Participate and support the development of implementation strategies and courses of action that address mission capabilities development and implementation, data migration, and capacity planning

Preferred Qualifications

• CISSP Certification
• Cloud Services Background which includes an understanding of the relationship of applications and databases and other capabilities that operate in infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS); and potentially software as a service (SaaS) as well as all government-specific data types
• ServiceNow experience a plus

Benefits

$120k -130k annually