Senior Cyber Defensive Operations Architect

Job Title: Senior Cyber Defensive Operations Architect (Charleston)

Job Type: Full Time

Location: On-site, Charleston SC

Clearance: Secret

Who is Ardalyst Defense, LLC?

Ardalyst Defense, LLC is a Maryland, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) that provides engineering services and technical, analytical and cyberspace operations services to integrated U.S. government agency operations. Ardalyst personnel have decades of direct operations experience in full-scope Cyberspace Operations - at the Service, Joint and National Agency levels.

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Ardalyst is a mashup of Ardent, meaning “passionate” and Catalyst, meaning “change agent.” To be an Ardalyst means to be passionate about creating and sustaining meaningful transformations.

Speak Your Mind – Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do and our belief in diversity of people supports our goal for diversity in thought. Ardalysts (that isn’t just what we call ourselves) come ready to contribute and find solutions.

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See Yourself Grow – Ardalysts have cited being encouraged to take educated risk, kick-start progress, and advance their skills as one of their favorite things about working at Ardalyst and we are determined to keep it that way.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Cyber Defensive Operations Architect to add to our dynamic team. In this role, you will be part of the engineering team responsible for ideating, architecting, defining, and designing future defensive cyber operations (DCO) / security operations (SOC) solutions based on next generation open source and best of breed commercial solutions.

Your primary responsibility is to work with customers to identify their SOC/DCO and cybersecurity needs, and rapidly iterate from concept to requirements. This role focuses on capturing and scoping requirements, examining technical options, tailoring design outcomes, and prototyping potential solutions. You will fuse a keen sense of empathy for the customer’s challenges with your hands-on expertise with SOC, DCO, and IT security solutions to delight the customer.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Identify Customer Requirements: Meet with customers to understand and capture their current challenges and opportunities.
• Develop Solutions: Architect and design solutions to meet customer needs, accounting for functional requirements, scalability, performance, cost, resilience, and security needs.
• Collaborate effectively: Leveraging the customers’ requirements; partner with sales, developers, engineering, and customer team members to solve issues and provide sustainable solutions.
• Deliver Value: Throughbuilding and prototyping technology solutions (sensors, data collection, automation, integration, etc.), and implementing production-grade, reliable solutions in cloud environments.

Required Skills

• Experience implementing and optimizing various SOC/analyst tools: sensing, IDS/IPS, EDR, NDR, XDR, SIEM, SOAR, BAS, big data, and the like.
• Hands-on experience in development, scripting, and/or cloud technologies.
• Strong verbal and presentation skills.
• Writing and editing technical/functional requirements, design specs, and design documents.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years industry experience in cybersecurity, information technology, cloud, or related roles.
• 2+ years in a technical alert/incident handling role in a defensive cyber operations (DCO) / security operations (SOC) center: triage, investigation, response, forensics, or similar
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or other similar related field, or 5 additional years of equivalent experience.
• This is an on-site position located at the customer’s facility in Charleston SC. Candidates must live in the greater Charleston area or be willing to relocate there before starting.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance.
• The ability to travel to customer sites 0-25% as required.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Served as primary contributor or technical editor to formal technical writing and deliverables.
• Hands-on experience with Azure or Azure Stack HCI
• Strong analytical skills, critical thinking skills and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of modern threat environments and attack types, as well as secure system design; hands-on experience with any of the following are a plus:
  • Security incident response, vulnerability assessment, or penetration testing
  • Threat modeling, threat analysis, and ATT&CK
• Capability to independently complete project tasks with minimal supervision.
• DevOps and DevSecOps focus with experience building and deploying infrastructure with automation like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, etc. with security features and secure system design built in.
• Self-motivated, highly organized and detail oriented with the ability to work independently, prioritize and multi-task.
• Domain-related certifications are a plus, such as from Microsoft, SANS, Offensive Security, ISC2, etc.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• This is an onsite / in-office role.

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Health, Dental, Vision and Life insurance
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability insurance
• Monetary assistance with training and certifications

Disclaimer

Ardalyst Defense, LLC is an EOE that empowers employees, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic—to meet and exceed customer expectations and thrive in a collaborative and dynamic work environment.