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Enterprise Security Architect at Futrend Technology, Inc.
Futrend Technology, Inc.
Bethesda, MD
Information Technology
Posted 5 days ago
Job Description
Enterprise Security Architect
Title: Enterprise Security Architect Location: Bethesda, MD (Onsite) Futrend Technology, Inc. is an innovative business and technology solutions provider delivering highvalue IT services to federal agencies. Our core competencies include Healthcare IT, Federal Financial Management, and Grants Management, with proven success in complex, realtime system integration and enterprisewide implementations. By leveraging industry best practices, modern technologies, and a customercentric approach, Futrend supports missioncritical federal programs with measurable results. Our team is built on values of integrity, excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement, and we actively invest in our people's professional growth. We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Position Overview Futrend Technology is seeking an Enterprise Security Architect to join a highperforming team responsible for solving complex federal security challenges through advanced analytics, automation, and scalable security engineering. This role is ideal for an architectlevel security professional who thrives in datadriven environments, enjoys building crossplatform security visibility, and can translate technical complexity into actionable insights for both operational teams and executive leadership. The position offers the opportunity to work on highvisibility federal systems that directly support cybersecurity, compliance, and risk management objectives. Key Responsibilities
Title: Enterprise Security Architect Location: Bethesda, MD (Onsite) Futrend Technology, Inc. is an innovative business and technology solutions provider delivering highvalue IT services to federal agencies. Our core competencies include Healthcare IT, Federal Financial Management, and Grants Management, with proven success in complex, realtime system integration and enterprisewide implementations. By leveraging industry best practices, modern technologies, and a customercentric approach, Futrend supports missioncritical federal programs with measurable results. Our team is built on values of integrity, excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement, and we actively invest in our people's professional growth. We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Position Overview Futrend Technology is seeking an Enterprise Security Architect to join a highperforming team responsible for solving complex federal security challenges through advanced analytics, automation, and scalable security engineering. This role is ideal for an architectlevel security professional who thrives in datadriven environments, enjoys building crossplatform security visibility, and can translate technical complexity into actionable insights for both operational teams and executive leadership. The position offers the opportunity to work on highvisibility federal systems that directly support cybersecurity, compliance, and risk management objectives. Key Responsibilities
- Design, engineer, and operationalize endtoend security visibility across largescale federal environments
- Integrate and correlate data from multiple security and infrastructure platforms to deliver accurate, authoritative security insights
- Develop scalable security analytics, dashboards, and reporting aligned with compliance and operational requirements
- Serve as a technical bridge between security, cloud, operations, and leadership teams
- Enable continuous improvement of vulnerability posture, asset coverage, and compliance metrics through automation and engineering rigor
- Support auditready security reporting aligned with federal standards and mandates
- Advice leadership on latest security trends
- Research and stay on top of security threats, vulnerabilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical findings into actionable insights
- Strong collaboration and problemsolving abilities in crossfunctional environments
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years of information security experience, including 3+ years focused on cloud security
- Proven ability to design and maintain crossplatform security visibility models spanning vulnerability management, endpoint security, logging and analytics platforms and cloud and onpremise environments
- Deep understanding of authoritative asset inventories, agent coverage validation, and vulnerability posture tracking in large enterprise or federal environments
- Experience correlating security telemetry across diverse tools to produce reliable operational and executivelevel insights
- Advanced, handson expertise with Tenable Security Center and Nessus, including:
- Ability to create custom vulnerability analytics beyond native tool interfaces
- Experience normalizing vulnerability data by plugin Id, asset characteristics, operating system, vulnerability age
- Strong capabilities in largescale filtering, including CIDR ranges, IP segmentation, and dynamic exclusions
- Advanced Splunk engineering skills, including complex SPL development
- Experience building and maintaining productiongrade XML dashboards for both operations and executive stakeholders
- Proficiency in Lookupbased normalization and asset resolution and enrichment workflows
- Ability to develop snapshots, trending views, and compliance metrics with high data accuracy and integrity
- Strong proficiency in Python for security automation, analytics and reporting, and custom operational tooling
- Experience developing tools that integrate with security platform APIs to normalize and enrich data, correlate assets across systems, and validate agent health and coverage
- Strong working knowledge of AWS and Azure security including: logging and telemetry, resource tagging strategies, and ephemeral asset tracking
- Experience aligning security reporting with FedRAMP and OMB M2131 requirements
- Ability to translate compliance mandates into measurable, technical security controls
- Experience working in regulated federal environments with complex governance and compliance requirements
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty (or equivalent cloud security certification)
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Typical senior pay: $148k for Miscellaneous Computer Occupations nationally
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$177k
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