# Principal Cybersecurity Architect

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future.MITRE’s Secure Enterprise and Cloud Architectures Department (L523) in the Cyber Engineering Division provides subject matter expertise and consulting to Federal Government sponsors in enterprise-wide security architecture, with specific emphasis on cloud computing, zero trust architecture, 5G, and networking technologies. The department advances the

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- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mitre-principal-cybersecurity-architect>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: McLean, United States
- **Countries**: US
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- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
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- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
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- **Days open**: 0
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- **Industries**: Cybersecurity, Information Security, Research Institutes

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## Technologies

- **Zero Trust** — Optional: no
- **NIST CSF** — Optional: yes
- **SIEM** — Optional: yes
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: yes

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## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

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

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- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T19:44:34Z

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- **Stated usd annual**: 216000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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