# Security Architect - MDC

Position Overview SteerBridge is seeking an experienced Security Architect to lead security architecture for a mission-critical VA Disability Claims platform that supports Veterans and federal customers in AWS GovCloud. This role defines the security design, standards, and roadmap across cloud and hybrid infrastructure, applications, data, identity, and external integrations, translating mission needs, federal cybersecurity frameworks, and applicable commercial security requirements into secure, compliant, and scalable architectures. The architect partners with cloud and solutions architects, DevSecOps engineers, application developers, the security operations team, compliance stakeholders, and program leadership. The architect establishes security requirements and design patterns, reviews implementation evidence, and guides remediation; engineering teams implement and operate the controls, while security operations monitors the environment and leads incident response. This is a technical leadership role with hands-on design validation. The ideal candidate leads threat modeling and architecture reviews, produces clear security diagrams and architecture decision records, evaluates i

- **Id**: 4208989
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/steerbridge-security-architect-mdc>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Vienna, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T18:52:10Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T00:27:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5280
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Dental insurance, Health insurance, Life insurance, Retirement plans, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Government, Information Security, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation

## Company

- **Id**: 685505
- **Name**: SteerBridge
- **Domain**: steerbridge.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/steerbridge>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.333
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 76
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 190000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 190000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **FedRAMP** — Optional: no
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Sentinel** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Terragrunt** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: yes
- **AWS Fargate** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Zscaler** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T00:27:04Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 76
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T02:21:51Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 190000
- **Is top pay**: no

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