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# Security Architect

- **Company:** Everforth Ecs
- **Location:** Fairfax, VA, United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $165,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Public-Key Cryptography, Digital Signature, Networking Hardware, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Local Area Networks, Systems Architecture, Wide Area Networks, Network Routers, Test Scripts, Firewalls (Computer Science)
- **Published:** June 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/3e2da792-f0e9-4c1a-9659-b725540f7dcd

## About the Role

Excellent written and oral communication skills

## Description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Security Architect to work Remotely.

The Security Architect will be expected to study the organization's existing systems architecture and recommend and designs security solutions to improve them in an effort to ensure the organization's security posture and functionality will operation more efficiently. The systems security architect will be expected to develop ways to add new security functionality to current systems, and support the installation and configuration of new hardware and software. The security architect will regularly test new systems to ensure that they work as expected, and communicate with engineers and application developers to ensure the compatibility of security requirement, configurations, and components. The systems security architect will assist the program staff and technical director with identifying the requirements, dependencies, constraints, and direction needed to design, deploy, or migrate security capabilities to a variety of cloud infrastructures. The security architect will host and support
regular meetings and correspondence with teammates and customers to gain a better understanding of security requirements.

Salary Range: $140,000 - $165,000

Required Skills

 * Enhances security team accomplishments and competence by planning delivery of solutions.
 * Determine security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements; researching information security standards; conducting system security and vulnerability analyses and risk assessments; studying architecture/platform; identifying integration issues; preparing cost estimates.
 * Plan security systems by evaluating network and security technologies; developing requirements for local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), virtual private networks (VPNs), routers, firewalls, and related security and network devices; designs public key infrastructures (PKIs), including use of certification authorities (CAs) and digital signatures as well as hardware and software; adhering to industry standards.
 * Support the Implementation of security systems by recommending intrusion detection methodologies and equipment, developing and supporting the implementing test scripts.
 * Recommends upgrades to security systems by monitoring security environment; identifying security gaps; evaluating and implementing enhancements.
 * Prepares system security reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.
 * Demonstrate a firm understanding and experience with designing, deploying, or migrating systems security capabilities and standards from an on-prem environment to various cloud environments.


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