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Role Description

Ardent is seeking a Cloud Security Architect to ensure Zero Trust enforcement extends consistently across cloud and on-premises environments. This role will design secure hybrid architectures integrating segmentation, identity-based access, workload isolation, and secure API communication. The architect will align cloud-native controls with enterprise Zero Trust policy models. This position ensures compliance with FedRAMP and federal cloud security frameworks while supporting automated posture validation and secure workload deployment.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Leads teams with building comprehensive zero trust solutions that encompass Users, Applications, and Infrastructure.
• Understanding of the Agile SDLC and how SecDevOps plays a role in it.
• Coordinate coding and unit testing phases of system development and efforts.
• Manages delivery on all projects and commitments.
• Lead and contribute to the service delivery across multiple project phases of the software development life cycle.
• Serve as subject matter expert for leading Best practices across SecDevOps, CICD, Rapid Release, and related end-to-end automation.
• Good communication skills.
• Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating, and maintaining all components that comprise the SecDevOps environment.
• Developing and maintaining secure deployments to AWS and multi-cloud environment and other tasks.
• Scripting and maintaining security embedded build environments.
• Working with project teams to integrate their products into the Zero Trust, SecDevOps environment.
• Strong AWS and other cloud services understanding and experience.
• Document, schedule, and execute software scans, builds, and deployments.
• Document Security, CM, SCM Plans, Releases, and Build Procedures.
• Production-level experience in Infrastructure Automation using Ansible, Terraform, Docker, ECS, EKS, ECR, and Fargate.
• Design, configure, and support software build/deploy pipelines (CI/CD, Jenkins, Git, GitLab).
• Assist with software deployment through various staged operating environments (e.g., Development, QA, Staging, Production).
• Scripting and maintaining build environments.
• Linux and shell scripting.

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Bachelors degree in related field (Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Business Management preferred).
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 7+ years of experience in a combination of software development and technical operations support.
• Deep understanding of user credentials, identities, authentication, SSO, applications, workloads, endpoints, networks, data, automation, security analytics, SIEM, SOAR, threat intelligence.
• Experience with monolith and micro service architectures using containerization and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of managing polyglot technologies, frameworks, and apps.
• Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) - compliant software stack (Kubernetes) and Open Container Initiative (OCI) Compliant containers (Docker).
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects from end to end with minimal supervision.
• Expert knowledge of the underlying concepts of Branching, Merging, and Archiving software throughout the development lifecycle.
• Proven experience managing system changes without interruption to the user.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration tools such as source control (GIT preferred), build (Maven, Gradle, npm), and automation (Jenkins, Github Actions, scripting).
• GovCon experience preferred.
• Technical lead experience preferred.

Requirements

• Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.
• We highly encourage all Veterans and those with disabilities to apply.

Company Description

Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other basis protected by state, local, or federal law.