Enterprise Cloud Security Architect Location: Reston, VA
Required Clearance: TS/SCI (CI Poly Eligible)
Employment Type: Full-Time Regular
Shift: Day
Travel: No
Relocation Assistance: Yes
Position Overview Ennoble First is seeking an Enterprise Cloud Security Architect to provide enterprise-level cloud security architecture leadership across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In this role, you will develop secure multicloud architectural patterns, guide engineering teams, and help establish governance models that support secure, automated, and scalable enterprise cloud environments.
Primary Responsibilities - Serve as a multicloud architecture subject matter expert across AWS, Azure, and GCP, providing design-level leadership and guidance to engineering teams.
- Lead the interpretation and adoption of multicloud governance models, including AWS Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones, and GCP Organization Structures, to support secure and automated enterprise environments.
- Translate security strategies into cloud-agnostic architectural patterns, standards, and reference architectures implemented across engineering teams.
- Contribute to shaping enterprise cloud and cybersecurity capabilities by developing converged multicloud architectural approaches aligned with innovation, governance, risk management, and modernization goals.
Required Qualifications - 10+ years of experience in enterprise security architecture, cloud architecture, or cybersecurity engineering roles, utilizing cloud-native functionality as well as COTS, GOTS, and open-source tools to meet objectives.
- Experience integrating cybersecurity tools and capabilities in an enterprise environment, modernizing cybersecurity capabilities by pushing functionality closer to the edge, closer to the workload, and operating in a distributed manner.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code concepts such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep to provide architectural guidance.
- Knowledge of multicloud governance and automation such as AWS Control Tower, Azure Landing Zones, or GCP Organization Structures.
- Knowledge of multicloud networking models, including segmentation, routing, and hybrid connectivity.
- Knowledge of cloud security controls, compliance frameworks, and security telemetry ecosystems.
- Knowledge of modern cybersecurity frameworks, including Zero Trust principles and secure-by-design methodologies.
- ssociate's degree and 5+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities, or Master's degree and 1+ years of experience supporting IT projects and activities.
- bility to obtain a DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification such as Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, SSCP, CySA+, GICSP, or CND Certification within 30 days of start date.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience producing enterprise architecture artifacts such as reference architectures, design patterns, standards, and decision records.
- Experience with cloud modernization and multicloud strategy drivers such as innovation, portability, governance consolidation, and vendor variation.
- Knowledge of cloud-native security, identity, and platform capabilities across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- bility to evaluate, guide, and improve architectural designs created by engineering and delivery teams and create and maintain realistic roadmaps of solution development and improvement activities.
- Multicloud certifications such as AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications.
Pay Range $165,000-$200,000 The Ennoble First pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
