Principal Enterprise Security Archtiect (SME)

Title: Principal Enterprise Security Architect (SME)                                                                                                                

Task description and/or any specific requirements:                                            

Education Level: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other IT/security related major; or equivalent experience

Position Overview

We are seeking a visionary Principal Enterprise Security Architect to serve as the strategic and technical bridge between our security operations and CISO leadership, and enterprise infrastructure. Operating within the Corporate Information Security Office (CISO), you will collaborate directly with internal and external stakeholders to align corporate initiatives with robust cyber defense strategies. The primary focus of this role is to ensure the preservation and continuous enhancement of our security posture throughout our continuing infrastructure evolution process and into the ultimate architectural end-state. You will identify structural security gaps across our hybrid environment, comprising multiple physical data centers and multi-cloud environments, engineering resilient solutions to mitigate them, while using SI and LLM .

Experience Years: 10+ years’ relevant experience

• Act as the primary security architecture advisor to USPS CISO ENG, translating deep technical risks and structural vulnerabilities into clear business-risk metrics.
• Lead collaborative design, threat modeling, and remediation sessions across the CISO office, Network Engineering teams, Endpoint Management teams, and external vendor/partner organizations.
• Formulate and author Enterprise Security Architecture roadmap, ensuring the security solution/technology investments align with CISO goals and business needs, in the areas of edge/network defense, cloud security, transport security, endpoint protection, and certificate lifecycle management. Using skillset along with vendor products to continue moving the enterprise security towards SI automation.
• Establish and enforce governance and security policies in the infrastructure.
• Manage and/or advise on planning and operation of all CISO Engineering Security Edge workstreams.
• Conduct rigorous, proactive architectural reviews of the global hybrid footprint to identify structural weaknesses through continuous monitoring.

Required Skills:   

• Strong experience with SASE/SSE Convergence – SDWAN, (CASB), Secure Web Gateways (SWG), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA).
• 15+ years with strong experience with Edge and Perimeter Protection solutions and designs - IDS/IPS, WAF/WAAP, SDWAN remote security
• Strong experience with Network service security and infrastructure – DNS security, PKI and CAOps, Proxy
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust tenets and principles, and practical application of the principles.
• In-depth understanding of Security Framework Alignment: Map all infrastructure patterns to prevailing industry standards and best practices, specifically NIST CSF / SP 800-53 and the CIS Critical Security Controls.
• In-depth understanding of hybrid large scale enterprise: Strong history of assessing and securing complex enterprise environments spanning multiple physical data centers and comprehensive multi-cloud environments from various cloud service providers. (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)
• 10+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity and infrastructure, with 5+ years in a dedicated architecture role directly influencing architectural decisions and priority.
• 15+ years with hands-on architectural experience across the entire technical scope: PKI, NDR, NGFW, WAAP, EDR/XDR, and SIEM), IDS/IPS, DNS Protection, Proxy, Webproxy, PAC, Loadbalancer, IP routing, Data Center designs
• Experience with development and application of governance policy and standards in application of security tools, and Security Governance process/workstream management, while working to leverage SI to automate processes
• Experience with security Incident response activities.
• Understanding AI application development methodology