Title: Enterprise Security ArchitectLocation: Bethesda, MD (Onsite)
We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.Position OverviewFutrend Technology is seeking an Enterprise Security Architect to join a high-performing team responsible for solving complex federal security challenges through advanced analytics, automation, and scalable security engineering.
This role is ideal for an architect-level security professional who thrives in
data-driven environments, enjoys building
cross-platform security visibility, and can translate technical complexity into
actionable insights for both operational teams and executive leadership. The position offers the opportunity to work on
high-visibility federal systems that directly support cybersecurity, compliance, and risk management objectives.
Key Responsibilities- Design, engineer, and operationalize end-to-end security visibility across large-scale federal environments
- Integrate and correlate data from multiple security and infrastructure platforms to deliver accurate, authoritative security insights
- Develop scalable security analytics, dashboards, and reporting aligned with compliance and operational requirements
- Serve as a technical bridge between security, cloud, operations, and leadership teams
- Enable continuous improvement of vulnerability posture, asset coverage, and compliance metrics through automation and engineering rigor
- Support audit-ready security reporting aligned with federal standards and mandates
- Advice leadership on latest security trends
- Research and stay on top of security threats, vulnerabilities
Required Qualifications & CapabilitiesCore Qualifications- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical findings into actionable insights
- Strong collaboration and problem-solving abilities in cross-functional environments
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years of information security experience, including 3+ years focused on cloud security
Security Architecture & Visibility- Proven ability to design and maintain cross-platform security visibility models spanning vulnerability management, endpoint security, logging and analytics platforms and cloud and on-premise environments
- Deep understanding of authoritative asset inventories, agent coverage validation, and vulnerability posture tracking in large enterprise or federal environments
- Experience correlating security telemetry across diverse tools to produce reliable operational and executive-level insights
Vulnerability Management & Tenable Engineering- Advanced, hands-on expertise with Tenable Security Center and Nessus, including:
- Ability to create custom vulnerability analytics beyond native tool interfaces
- Experience normalizing vulnerability data by plugin Id, asset characteristics, operating system, vulnerability age
- Strong capabilities in large-scale filtering, including CIDR ranges, IP segmentation, and dynamic exclusions
Splunk Engineering & Security Analytics- Advanced Splunk engineering skills, including complex SPL development
- Experience building and maintaining production-grade XML dashboards for both operations and executive stakeholders
- Proficiency in Lookup-based normalization and asset resolution and enrichment workflows
- Ability to develop snapshots, trending views, and compliance metrics with high data accuracy and integrity
Automation & Engineering- Strong proficiency in Python for security automation, analytics and reporting, and custom operational tooling
- Experience developing tools that integrate with security platform APIs to normalize and enrich data, correlate assets across systems, and validate agent health and coverage
Cloud Security & Compliance- Strong working knowledge of AWS and Azure security including: logging and telemetry, resource tagging strategies, and ephemeral asset tracking
- Experience aligning security reporting with FedRAMP and OMB M-21-31 requirements
- Ability to translate compliance mandates into measurable, technical security controls
Preferred Qualifications- Experience working in regulated federal environments with complex governance and compliance requirements
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty (or equivalent cloud security certification)
