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This role focuses on building truly isolated recovery capabilities that enable organizations to recover critical systems and identity infrastructure after ransomware or other destructive cyber events without risk of recontamination.\nYou will own end-to-end IRE architecture and deployment leadership, from initial design through implementation and validation, while directing project teams ranging from 3 to 15 people depending on engagement size. The work is deeply technical and client-facing.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the architecture, design, and hands-on deployment of Isolated Recovery Environments for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.\nDesign and implement strong isolation controls, including network segmentation, air-gapping (physical or logical), one-way replication paths, and firewall/VLAN strategies (e.g., yellow/green models).\nArchitect independent platform services within the IRE (compute, storage, networking, DNS, DHCP, monitoring, and virtualization) with no shared trust or dependencies on production.\nDesign and guide Active Directory forest recovery processes executed inside the isolated environment, including separate identity planes, no trust relationships to production AD, independent time sources, and controlled validation/promotion paths.\nDefine secure administration models, including Privileged Access Workstations (PAWs), restricted access methods (console/iLO preferred; no direct RDP/SSH from untrusted zones), just-in-time access, and integration considerations for PAM solutions.\nEnsure immutable storage and backup ingestion designs, and incorporate architectural knowledge of platforms such as Rubrik and Cohesity for clean data transfer into the IRE (hands-on experience with these tools is not required).\nDevelop recovery runbooks, validation procedures, and testing approaches so clients can safely restore, scan, and promote workloads.\nLead and mentor delivery teams (typically 3-15 consultants/engineers) across design and deployment phases; provide technical direction and quality oversight.\nEngage directly with client stakeholders to translate cyber resilience requirements into practical, implementable IRE designs.\nDocument architectures, standards, and recommendations for client environments.\nRequired Qualifications\nMinimum 10 yearsof relevant enterprise IT security architecture, infrastructure, or cyber recovery experience.\nProven hands-on experience designing and deploying isolated, air-gapped, or highly segmented recovery environments.\nStrong practical knowledge of network segmentation, firewalling, VLANs, routing controls, and isolation techniques in both on-premises and cloud platforms.\nDeep understanding of Active Directory, including forest recovery procedures performed in isolation, DNS/time dependencies, and identity separation principles.\nExperience with platform services (virtualization platforms such as VMware or Hyper-V, cloud infrastructure on AWS/Azure/GCP, storage, and core networking services).\nArchitectural knowledge of modern backup and cyber recovery platforms (e.g., Rubrik, Cohesity) sufficient to design integration and data-flow patterns; hands-on operational experience with these tools is not required.\nDemonstrated ability to lead technical teams of varying sizes on complex infrastructure and security projects.\nStrong consulting and client communication skills.\nU.S. Citizenship required.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Privileged Access Management (e.g., CyberArk), phishing-resistant MFA, and Privileged Access Workstation design.\nHands-on work with immutable storage, object lock, or equivalent write-once protections.\nPrior involvement in ransomware recovery, clean-room recovery, or large-scale cyber resilience engagements.\nRelevant certifications (CISSP, CISM, or platform-specific credentials in VMware, Microsoft, or major cloud providers).\nExperience with Infrastructure-as-Code or automation approaches for repeatable IRE builds.\nKnowledge of related frameworks or controls (NIST, CIS, or similar) applied to recovery architectures.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4324,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["IT Consulting & Digital Transformation","Managed IT Services (MSP)","AI Consulting & Integration","Cloud Consulting & Migration"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-22T17:39:36Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 23 · green card filings: 4","filings_12m":23,"filings_prev_12m":21,"green_card_filings_12m":4,"median_offered_wage_usd":151759,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":2}],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":74,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-23T05:54:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ahead-senior-enterprise-it-security-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ahead-senior-enterprise-it-security-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-24T00:53:21Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1370,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-25T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3614},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3614"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fahead-senior-enterprise-it-security-architect"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fahead-senior-enterprise-it-security-architect"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fahead-senior-enterprise-it-security-architect"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ahead-senior-enterprise-it-security-architect\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fahead-senior-enterprise-it-security-architect"}]}