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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Chief Enterprise Architect (Cisco - Network Security) - **Company:** Computacenter Inc. - **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $200,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Data Centers, Data Security, Information Systems Security Architecture Professional, Network Security, Network Architecture, Network Segmentation, Computer Networking Systems, Falcon Platform, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Splunk, SentinelOne Expertise, Cisco - **Published:** August 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=63afea004f2a379f ## About the Role * 5+ years' experience as a Lead or Domain Enterprise Architect * Must possess a working history with the top OEMs in the Network & Data Security space such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Splunk, Crowdstrike, SentinelOne, Fortinet, Dell etc. * Experience creating and embedding technology strategies either within a business domain or with in a large-scale transformation program * Legally eligible to work in the United States * Effective communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and business terminology * A proven track record of building strong relationships with customer CISOs, security teams, and infrastructure leaders by delivering expert guidance on risk reduction, compliance, and secure infrastructure transformation. * Ability to build trusted and respect as a 'thought leader' who can influence and when appropriate persuade technology and business leaders * Ability to be technology neutral: unbiased towards any specific technology or vendor choice, entirely motivated by getting to 'value & outcomes' * Ability to propose and effectively estimate proposed solution commercials * Exceptional interpersonal skills, teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation * Proven analytical, planning, organizational and technology skills ## Description The Security Chief Enterprise Architect (CEA) is a high-impact, technical thought-leader responsible for assisting clients in architecting enterprise-grade security solutions. You will assist our clients in meeting the challenge to protect and enable large-scale data center and networking environments to achieve their business outcomes. The Security CEA, (as an infrastructure and data security subject matter expert) is a difference maker in customer engagements. You combine deep network and security expertise with business acumen to drive the success of our clients' major infrastructure initiatives. As a member of the broader Solution Sales Organization; your focus is on the sales goals & growth of our own business. Annual Salary Range: $160K - $200K USD What you'll be doing * Partner with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values. * As a Network Infrastructure Security thought-leader, you'll design and propose security architectures and solution use-cases for data center and enterprise networks. Your most significant contributions will be delivered in areas such as micro-segmentation, zero trust network architecture, secure multitenancy & hybrid clouds, data protection, threat detection & response, identity & access management and policy creation & enforcement. * Lead the creation and evolution of a Domain Tech Strategies that are adopted by your domain and technology business stakeholders * Create and maintain a current and target view of our Enterprise Architecture to deliver our business and technology strategies. * Support business and technology change through capability roadmaps that inform Portfolio prioritization. * Establish and assure effective architecture governance and tooling to support Solution Architecture and other GIS teams. * Work closely with our Solution Architecture function ensuring that Tech Strategy is viable and new 'solutions' can be architected within the EA Principles/Guardrails and still deliver the desired outcomes to the business areas * Support annual and quarterly business and portfolio planning processes to ensure that the initiatives and plans are consistent with the agreed tech strategies * Ensuring our EA tool information is up to date and has the required breadth and depth * Support the development of architecture tools and techniques to support others in the practice * Embrace and support Computacenter's mission and core values. ## Related Videos - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Back to CODE100](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1909-wearedevelopers-live-back-to-code100) - [Our journey with Spring Boot in a microservice architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/511-our-journey-with-spring-boot-in-a-microservice-architecture) - [Cyber Sleuth: Finding Hidden Connections in Cyber Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/893-cyber-sleuth-finding-hidden-connections-in-cyber-data) - [Computer Vision from the Edge to the Cloud done easy](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/263-computer-vision-from-the-edge-to-the-cloud-done-easy) - [Blueprints for Success: Steering a Global Data & AI Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1577-blueprints-for-success-steering-a-global-data-ai-architecture) ## Related Articles - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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