Cloud Security Architect - Mid

Why AIS? When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success. Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements. Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth. Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued. Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities. What are we looking for? At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles. Working@AIS At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Security Architect. Core Knowledge & Skills: Develops enterprise security architectures, frameworks, and standards; utilizes advanced forensics and integrates solutions with IT systems. Work & Complexity: Designs secure architectures, manages integration projects, leads strategic initiatives, and enforces policies and standards. Quality & Independence: Ensures integrity and scalability, develops comprehensive strategies, and optimizes solutions for performance and efficiency. Teamwork & Communication: Leads architectural teams, builds partnerships, manages knowledge, and communicates strategies and executive reports. Consulting & Engagement: Provides architectural consulting, leads innovation initiatives, evaluates enterprise technologies, and builds strategic partnerships. As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Cloud Security Architect - Mid. Project Summary AIS is supporting federal customer with a program focused on architecture and infrastructure. Key Responsibilities Strong background in GCP/GCP Cloud Native Services. Owns and manages the development of InfoSec engineering designs and implementation. Identifies security issues and risks, and develop mitigation plans for cloud implementations. Architect, design, implement, support, and evaluate security-focused tools and services. Oversee assessment and mitigation of system security threats/risks throughout the program life cycle; validation of system security requirements definition and analysis; establishing system security designs; implementing security designs in hardware, software, data, and procedures; verification of security requirements; performing system certification and accreditation planning and testing and liaison activities, and supporting secure systems operations and maintenance. Liaisons with various internal and external groups for security mapping and overall solution integration activities. Required For This Opportunity Minimum 4 years of relevant experience designing and implementing cloud security solutions in AWS and/or other cloud environments. Hands-on experience securing cloud architectures, including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, logging, monitoring, and vulnerability management. Working knowledge of federal and DoD security frameworks and compliance requirements (e.g., NIST, RMF, FedRAMP) and their application in cloud environments. Ability to collaborate with engineering and operations teams to integrate security controls into cloud designs and delivery pipelines. Active Secret clearance or higher, with ability to support federal and mission customers. IAT Level II certification (DoD 8570/8140 compliant) and one or more cloud certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) Nice to Have Skills Experience supporting DoD/IC programs and mission systems. At AIS, we are committed to offering competitive and fair compensation that reflects the skills, experience, and contributions of each team member. The targeted base salary range for this role is $138,000-$209,000 per year. Please note that this range is provided as a guideline and the final offer will be based on several factors, including but not limited to, skillset and competencies, level of experience, education, certifications, and location. We value transparency in our hiring process and are happy to discuss how your unique qualifications align with our compensation structure during the interview process. Applied Information Sciences does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs.