# Cybersecurity SME

We are seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) Cybersecurity Architect to join our team supporting a large-scale federal modernization program. This role owns security architecture across enterprise solutions, platforms, networks, identity, mobility/endpoints, data, and cloud, bridging cybersecurity policy and controls with implementable designs, evidence, and risk decisions throughout the system lifecycle. This is a hands-on architecture role. You'll be expected to produce real security designs and see them through review, implementation, and operations, not just set policy from a distance. This is a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC. Candidates must be U.S. citizens. Key Responsibilities 1. Security Architecture & Design Develop and assess security architectures, patterns, requirements, controls integration, trust boundaries, data flows, and identity and segmentation design. Design logging, resilience, and operational safeguards into solution architecture. Translate federal and agency security requirements into practical design decisions, implementation actions, and residual-risk statements. 2. Reviews & Governance Participate in architecture compliance, technical design, eng

- **Id**: 758419
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/igniteitservices-cybersecurity-sme>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Washington, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-17T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-17
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T01:07:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 84
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3694
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Dental insurance, Health insurance, Life insurance, Professional development, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity, Information Security, Digital Government, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation

## Company

- **Id**: 678736
- **Name**: Ignite IT Services
- **Domain**: igniteitservices.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/igniteitservices>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.474
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 50
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 104000
- **Max usd**: 237000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 3638

## Technologies

- **Zero Trust** — Optional: no
- **SIEM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 83

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T17:44:23Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 23
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.648
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 83
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:0, urgency, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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