Principal System Architect – SME

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⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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ShorePoint Inc

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1 - 10 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

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Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

ShorePoint Inc. is a privately-held cybersecurity services company that aims to be the premier provider of cybersecurity services in today's rapidly evolving landscape. Founded by cybersecurity veterans, the company focuses on providing effective cyber defense strategies across the full cyber lifecycle. ShorePoint specializes in various areas including Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM), threat protection, security compliance, and information protection. With a strong emphasis on supporting both public and private sector clients, the firm leverages its expertise to protect critical assets from cyber threats, fostering a collaborative and innovative corporate culture.

📋 Description

• Lead and technically supervise senior systems architects and engineers, providing daily direction and mentorship • Advise the project manager on workload distribution and staffing • Shape and support a federal agency’s Post-Quantum Cryptography migration strategy aligned with NIST standards and CNSA 2.0 • Conduct cryptographic inventory and discovery to identify systems, protocols and data stores exposed to quantum decryption risk • Establish crypto-agility standards and advise on hybrid classical/PQC implementation approaches • Evaluate ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA for enterprise use cases, performance constraints and system requirements • Gather and develop enterprise cybersecurity architecture requirements with federal stakeholders • Produce software, hardware and communications design architectures • Design, implement and baseline enterprise cybersecurity capability configurations • Validate and verify implementations and configuration changes against intended security outcomes • Develop policy aligned with CISA maturity models, NIST standards and federal requirements • Foster collaboration across government and contractor teams • Develop briefings, presentations and written deliverables communicating program status, risk reduction and value

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in systems architecture, including providing technical supervision and direction to senior architects and staff • Active Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) certification • Experience designing and implementing enterprise cybersecurity architectures and capabilities • Experience developing enterprise cybersecurity architecture requirements with customers and stakeholders • Experience baselining enterprise cybersecurity capability configurations and validating and verifying implementations and ongoing configuration changes • Experience creating policy that adheres to CISA maturity models and NIST standards • Experience with PKI, key management and certificate lifecycle management • Proven ability to lead teams, build collaboration across stakeholders and communicate complex technical topics to technical and executive audiences through briefings, presentations and written deliverables • Proven ability to analyze complex requirements and translate them into clear, actionable tasks and processes through critical thinking • Applicants must currently be a U.S. citizen in compliance with federal contract requirements • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field (beneficial to have) • Knowledge of PQC standards, including NIST-selected ML-KEM (FIPS 203), ML-DSA (FIPS 204), SLH-DSA (FIPS 205) and CNSA 2.0 • Knowledge of crypto-agility, hybrid cryptographic implementation, PKI, key management and certificate lifecycle management • Knowledge of enterprise cybersecurity architecture across software, hardware and network communications • Knowledge of federal cybersecurity frameworks, including NIST SP 800-series, NIST Cybersecurity Framework and CISA maturity models • Knowledge of enterprise network architecture and cryptography • Knowledge of cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud security architecture, FedRAMP and cloud key management • Beneficial experience with PQC architectures, cryptographic inventories, hybrid key exchange, discovery tools, CBOMs, FIPS 140-3, HSMs, federal PQC policy, Zero Trust, federal cloud platforms, PMP and cloud security certifications

🏖️ Benefits

• 144 hours of PTO • 11 holidays • 85% of insurance premiums covered • 401(k) • Continuing education • Certification maintenance and reimbursement • Career development opportunities • Healthcare benefits through major carriers