Certified Cloud Architect

Title: Cloud Architect

Duration: 12+ months

Location: Remote-Must be current Wisconsin state resident. Potential onsite visits, 1-2 times for the duration of the contract)

About the role

In this role, you will act as a trusted technical advisor to senior leaders while providing hands-on technical leadership across cloud architecture, DevSecOps engineering, and enterprise security operations. You will help operationalize security controls, guide risk governance decisions, and support statewide cybersecurity initiatives in a highly visible environment. You will also play a key role in mentoring and upskilling infrastructure and security operations staff through pair engineering, technical coaching, and engineering leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to the CISO, CIO, and other senior executive stakeholders
• Support the implementation of the Accelerated Exposure Reduction Plan across a large, complex enterprise environment
• Provide senior-level technical leadership in cloud architecture and DevSecOps engineering
• Operationalize security controls, including tiering models, compensating control validation, and time-bound risk governance structures
• Mentor, train, and upskill infrastructure and security operations staff through pair engineering and technical coaching
• Partner with cross-functional teams to strengthen enterprise security posture and exposure reduction effort
• Guide best practices across security engineering, infrastructure, and cloud operations

Required experience

Candidates must be able to demonstrate prior experience in large and complex environments with the following:

• Serving as a trusted technical advisor to CISOs, CIOs, or senior executive leaders within public sector or heavily federated enterprise environments
• Acting as a technical mentor, trainer, or engineering lead focused on pair engineering and technical upskilling
• Operationalizing security controls, including tiering models, compensating control validation, and time-bound risk governance structures
• Delivering cloud architecture and DevSecOps engineering solutions

Required technical expertise

Strong experience with the following enterprise cybersecurity and engineering technologies is required:

• Google Threat Intelligence / VirusTotal
• Google SecOps
• Mandiant ASM
• Tenable.io
• Microsoft Azure Arc
• GitHub
• GitHub Advanced Security
• Ansible Tower
• Gemini and Anthropic AI security frameworks

Nice to have

• Experience working in federated or government environments
• Broader exposure to Google, Microsoft, AWS, and Splunk environments

The ideal candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior cybersecurity leader who can move seamlessly between executive advisory work and hands-on technical engineering. They bring strong communication skills, leadership presence, and the ability to influence strategy while helping teams build practical security capability in a large-scale enterprise environment.