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9th Way Insignia
Engineering & Architecture 2h ago

Cybersecurity Architect

9th Way Insignia
United StatesUnited States
Contract
$98,135 — $150,000 USD
Senior-Level

Job Description

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Cloud SecurityNISTCybersecurityZero TrustEnterprise Architecture

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Project Introduction

The Department of Veterans Affairs Cybersecurity Operations and Services Enterprise (COSE) program delivers the enterprise cybersecurity operations, engineering, architecture, risk, and compliance support that safeguards VA systems, data, and mission delivery. The team helps strengthen the cyber resilience of the digital services relied on by Veterans, their families, and the VA workforce.

9th Way Insignia is seeking a Cybersecurity Architect to support this program. This position is contingent upon contract award.

Responsibilities

  • Define and assess enterprise security architectures that support Zero Trust, cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
  • Develop architecture roadmaps, reference patterns, security requirements, and transition plans.
  • Analyze system designs, integrations, data flows, identity patterns, and control dependencies for security and interoperability risks.
  • Advise technical teams and leadership on security architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and remediation priorities.
  • Produce architecture diagrams, design documentation, and executive-ready briefings.

Requirements

  • A Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
  • Ten or more years of enterprise security architecture, systems architecture, or cybersecurity engineering experience.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of Zero Trust, identity and access management, network segmentation, cloud security, and security frameworks such as NIST and RMF.
  • Experience designing or evaluating security architecture in a large enterprise or Government environment.
  • Ability to communicate complex architecture decisions clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

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9th Way Insignia

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9th Way Insignia is a premier, enterprise-grade Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) IT modernization, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence solutions provider engineered to safeguard and optimize mission-critical operations across U.S. Federal Government and defense agencies. Operating at the intersection of defense-grade systems engineering, Zero Trust cybersecurity, and applied data analytics, the company eliminates the operational friction of legacy government IT infrastructure—which routinely suffers from fragmented legacy architectures, manual compliance bottlenecks, zero-day threat vulnerabilities, and high maintenance costs—by delivering intelligent automation pipelines, cloud modernization frameworks, and automated threat suppression systems. Moving beyond traditional government IT contracting, 9th Way Insignia equips federal entities—including the Department of Veterans Affairs, USPTO, and civilian agencies—with DevSecOps implementation, automated FISMA compliance monitoring, machine learning data workflows, and end-to-end IT service management with elite, scalable, and audit-ready precision. Under the hood, its operational architecture—bolstered by Zero Trust frameworks, behavioral threat analytics, continuous vulnerability assessment loops, and enterprise workflow automation engines—natively handles high-concurrency catalog ingestion, multi-tier cloud modernization, real-time threat response, and complex database integrations. What sets 9th Way Insignia apart is its unyielding commitment to defense-grade cybersecurity and mission performance; by uniting advanced AI automation with deep domain expertise, the firm enables federal leadership to streamline operational costs, protect sensitive public datasets, and establish an unassailable benchmark for government digital transformation.

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