Space Systems Security Architect

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🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

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Dragonfli Group

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11 - 50 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

💼 Consulting

Cybersecurity • Consulting

Dragonfli Group is a Washington, DC based LLC specializing in management and technology consulting. The company transforms its clients’ businesses by leveraging high impact strategic planning and technology solutions coupled with expertise in infrastructure, corporate strategy, and operations. Dragonfli Group’s passionate and experienced consultants take a collaborative approach to provide strategic planning and information security solutions to organizations looking to increase profitability, streamline operations, manage risk, meet regulatory demands, and build market share.

📋 Description

• Own the long-term target architecture, interfaces, trust boundaries, and patterns across space, ground, and user segments • Embed security by design throughout a multi-year roadmap • Serve as senior technical authority for release-readiness gates, engineering standards, and architecture tradeoffs • Lead technical integration across cyber, software, hardware, AI, and systems delivery • Unblock multidisciplinary teams, ensure implementation consistency, and bridge research to production • Productize solutions for repeatable deployment across different client satellites and constellation profiles • Guide system-level test strategy and execution across integration, security validation, mission-readiness, and operational acceptance • Support failure analysis and root-cause resolution • Translate NIST, CMMC, ATO/STIGs, and space threat models into executable delivery controls and compliance-ready designs • Lead technical-vision discussions with clients and executives • Serve as cross-domain technical authority for workstream leads and develop stronger architects and engineers

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required • Must be a U.S. Citizen • 10+ years of experience as a product engineer, solution architect, systems architect, technical product leader, or similar role delivering complex cyber, aerospace, space, embedded, or mission-critical systems • Proven leadership delivering complex, multidisciplinary cyber and/or space systems to production and operations • Deep experience designing secure architectures across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and space/embedded constraints • Strong systems-thinking and integration background • Demonstrated authorship of reference architectures, patterns, or platforms adopted by multiple teams • Cross-domain depth across embedded/space, AI/ML, ground segment, cloud/DevOps • Strong grasp of identity, key management, secure boot and update, segmentation, data protection, logging and telemetry, and supply chain security • Experience with NIST, ATO/STIGs, and CMMC compliance constraints and translating them into executable delivery controls • Ability to lead under uncertainty and apply incident- and risk-management discipline • Ability to influence without direct authority; excellent written and verbal communication across technical and executive audiences • Willingness and ability to travel 20 to 60 percent • Previous consulting or contracting experience preferred • Preferred experience with commercial product/platform launches, satellite mission operations, aerospace delivery, embedded and real-time systems, AI/ML deployment pipelines, space threat research, and active Secret-or-higher security clearance • Working fluency with C, POSIX, real-time operating systems, Python, PyTorch, Docker, Grafana, MQTT, Node.js, GitHub Actions, automated security scanning, and containerized deployments

🏖️ Benefits

• Multiple POS health plan options including an HSA-compatible plan • Dental PPO coverage for preventive, basic, and major services • Vision coverage including annual exam, frames, lenses, and contact lens allowance • 401(k) employer match up to 5% of eligible compensation • 100% employer-paid Long-Term Disability coverage at 50% of pre-disability earnings • 100% employer-paid Life Insurance & AD&D coverage valued at $10,000 each • 15 to 25 days PTO annually based on tenure • All 11 federal holidays observed • Travel expenses covered by Dragonfli Group