ENTERPRISE INFORMATN SECURITY ARCHITECT

About the role

Serve as Information Security Architect with responsibility of developing and maintaining the enterprise architecture of NEXCOM's Security and BC DR programs. Includes working with stakeholders both leadership and subject matter experts to build a holistic view of NEXCOM's strategy processes, information, and information technology assets. Coordinates the NEX business need with DOD security and business continuity requirements to form a full roadmap for the future. Defines the configurations necessary for failover to remote disaster recovery site.

Responsibilities

• Incumbents of this position must be U.S. Citizens.
• Responsible for the design, development, implementation, and/or integration of a DoD IA Information Assurance architecture/system or system component for use within the NEXCOM enterprise.
• Performs risk analyses for functional areas to identify points of vulnerability, single points of failure, and identifies risk avoidance and mitigation strategies.
• Advises NEXCOM on the specific data technologies that support or enhance the organization for the long-term strategic responsibilities of NEXCOM IT systems.
• Designs, develops, reviews, and implements system security measures that provide confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation.
• Designs, develops, reviews, and implements security designs for new or existing technology systems.
• Ensures that the design of hardware, operating systems, and software applications adequately address IA security requirements for the computing environment.
• Provides system-related input on IA security requirements to be included in statements of work and other appropriate procurement documents.
• Ensures security deficiencies identified during security certification testing have been mitigated, corrected, or a risk acceptance has been obtained by the appropriate authorized representative.
• Ensures that the implementation of security designs properly mitigate identified threats.
• Develops and maintains the organization’s enterprise architecture alignment of IT security strategy incorporating NEXCOM’s business goals.
• Ensures compliance of artifacts to NEXCOM enterprise Information Assurance and BC DR standards.
• Familiar with regulatory requirements such as DIACAP, PCI PII, SOX.
• Participates in enterprise strategy development including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases, and business innovation portfolio development regarding all areas of IT security and BC DR functions.
• Documents system security design features and provides input to implementation plans and standard operating procedures.
• Conducts advanced technical research including market research of solutions based on vendor-supplied documents.
• Based on current and future business requirements, defines configurations necessary for a disaster recovery site.
• Installs, configures, and maintains Governance, Risk, and Compliance toolset.
• Plans for future growth and resource needs by consulting with system administrators and other computing technical professionals, recommending, and providing security principle guidance and direction.
• Investigates and understands the IT threat potentials and provides insight on specific IA threat concerns to NEX components and recommends mitigation or prevention best practices.
• Ensures implements the rigorous application of Information Security Information Assurance policies, principles, and practices in the delivery of Systems, Applications, and/or Services, Hardware, Software.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Information Assurance Workforce Certification IAM2 jobs SECNAV M-5239.2 DoN Information Assurance IA Workforce Manual requires incumbents of this position to possess and maintain current one of the following certifications:
  • GIAC Security Leadership Certification GSLC
  • Certified Information Security Manager CISM
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional CISSP
• NEXCOM preferred certification is GIAC Security Leadership Certification GSLC.
• Candidate without the required certification may be placed into this position but must obtain the required certification within 6 months of appointment. Failure to obtain this requirement will result in termination of employment.

General Experience

• 3 years experience in administrative, technical, or investigative work which demonstrated the ability and aptitudes required to perform technical, managerial, or analytical work involving management information systems.
• OR Substitution of Experience for Education:
  • One year of related academic study above the high school level may be substituted for 9 months of experience up to a maximum of a 4-year bachelor’s degree in software engineering or business information systems for 3 years of general experience.

Specialized Experience

• Five years of experience in at least two of the following Technical analysis for infrastructure architecture, Disaster recovery design methodology, IT security compliance and reporting, Technical risk analysis, Enterprise Architecture.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

Full-Time (35+ hours)

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Skills

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Benefits

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Schedule

Full-Time (35+ hours)

Unposting Date

Aug 1, 2026, 12:59:00 PM