Cybersecurity Architect (Top Secret | NOC / SOC)

Title: Cybersecurity Architect
Location: Washington, DC (Onsite | SCIF)
Work Environment: May require on-call support for incident response and operational continuity.
Clearance: Active Top Secret, SCI eligibility

About this role:

• Rackner is seeking a skilled NOC Architect to design and implement network and security operations center solutions in a highly secure SCIF environment. 
• Be responsible for architecting, optimizing, and maintaining the critical infrastructure for both Network Operations Center (NOC) and Security Operations Center (SOC) services, ensuring high availability, security, and efficiency.

• Architect and design the infrastructure for both NOC and SOC operations, ensuring seamless integration of network and security monitoring tools.
• Lead the implementation of network monitoring systems, security incident detection, and response platforms.
• Establish processes and technologies to monitor, manage, and secure critical networks and systems in real-time.
• Develop and optimize policies, workflows, and procedures for proactive incident response and network management.
• Integrate cutting-edge security technologies such as firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), SIEM solutions, and endpoint security tools.
• Collaborate with security, network, and IT teams to ensure the architecture meets stringent security standards and government regulations.
• Manage the lifecycle of NOC/SOC tools, including selection, configuration, tuning, and maintenance.
• Define metrics and reporting for network health, performance, and security incident trends.
• Ensure compliance with government security standards including NIST, FISMA, and DoD frameworks.
• Provide architectural guidance and thought leadership in enhancing security postures and ensuring network reliability.
• Maintain detailed documentation of the NOC/SOC architecture and infrastructure components.

• Certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), or Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
• Experience with automation and orchestration platforms to enhance NOC/SOC capabilities.
• Familiarity with Palo Alto firewalls and other advanced network security devices.
• Knowledge of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for enhancing incident detection and response.

Who We Are:

• Rackner is a software consultancy that builds cloud-native solutions for startups, enterprises, and the public sector.
• We are an energetic, growing consultancy with a passion for solving big problems for both startups and enterprises.
• We enable digital transformation for large organizations through the newest in distributed technologies as we are laser focused on end-to-end application development, DevSecOps, AI/ML and systems architecture and our methodology focuses on cloud-first and cost-effective innovation.
• Our customers hail from a diverse, ever growing list of industries.