Who is Element? We serve as a partner at the intersection of innovation and our clients' needs, efficiently crafting meaningful user experiences for government and commercial customers. By breaking down complex problems to their fundamental elements, we create modern digital solutions that drive efficiencies, maximize taxpayer dollars, and deliver essential outcomes that serve the people. Why Work at Element? Make an impact that resonates-join our vibrant team and discover how you can improve lives through digital transformation. Our talented professionals bring unparalleled energy engagement, setting a higher standard for impactful work. Come be a part of our team and shape a better future. Position Summary As the Sr. Security Engineer during this 16 week assessment and optional implementation you will drive the integration of security risk reduction directly into our stabilization roadmaps. Unlike traditional models that treat security as a parallel track, your work is embedded within the core operational strategy. You will ensure that as we modernize and stabilize infrastructure, the security posture is strengthened, not sidelined. Key Responsibilities - Conduct structured interviews with partner organizations, operational teams, and technical stakeholders. - Documents end‑to‑end operational workflows and surface implicit, non‑documented practices. - Identify workflow fragility zones, handoff risks, and transition‑period vulnerabilities. - Map business operations to their technical dependencies to assess stability and exposure. - Evaluate partner readiness throughout the transition period, including capability, staffing, and process maturity. - Recommend interim stabilization guardrails that reflect practical operational constraints. - Synthesize findings into actionable recommendations for continuity planning and transition execution. Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor’s Degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related technical field. - 8+ years of experience in Cybersecurity, Information Security, or IT Risk Management with federal or state and local systems. - Proven experience in federal or public sector environments requiring: - Governance Risk & Compliance alignment - Vendor Risk Assessment readiness - Operational hardening initiatives - Infrastructure remediation planning - Strong knowledge of security regulations and standards. - Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. - Proficiency in security technologies and software. - Strong communication and interpersonal skills. - US Citizenship or Permanent Residency required. - Must reside in the Continental US; located in the state of Pennsylvania a plus, but not required. - Depending on the government agency, specific requirements may include public trust background check or security clearance. Preferred Qualifications - Certification in CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or CISA. - Deep familiarity with frameworks such as NIST 800-53, FISMA, or SOC2 within a government context. - Experience working within the State/Commonwealth is a plus. $150,000 - $180,000 a year The likely salary range for this position is $150,000-$180,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range. Location Be in your Element. We are a remote-first company based in Washington, DC. Element is an equal opportunity employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected class. We believe in a world where solutions we build improve the lives of those who use them.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description We are seeking a Security Engineer with expertise in security automation, integration, and engineering practices to strengthen our global cybersecurity capabilities. In this role, you will focus on designing and implementing scalable security solutions, automating workflows, and enhancing the organization’s overall security posture through innovation and operational excellence. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams—including security operations, threat intelligence, and development—to deliver robust solutions that streamline incident response, vulnerability management, and security monitoring. Key Responsibilities: - Design, develop, and implement automations and workflows to improve security processes within security-oriented platforms and other IT platforms. - Build and optimize integrations between security tools/platforms. - Develop dashboards, reports, and technical documentation for stakeholders to track security operations deliverables, trends, and progress on security posture. - Support incident response and other security operations tasks through automation and orchestration. - Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by applying DevOps and agile principles to security engineering tasks. - Collaborate with global teams to ensure alignment on security engineering, standards, and best practices. Qualifications - 3+ years of experience in security engineering, security automation, or related cybersecurity roles. - Strong understanding of security platforms and technologies with experience specifically in Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM and ServiceNow. - Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Python, JavaScript) and experience with workflow orchestration. - Familiarity with DevOps tools and practices. - Experience with threat intelligence frameworks, vulnerability management processes, and MITRE ATT&CK. - Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills. - Ability to work independently and collaboratively across global teams and time zones. Requirements - Preferred Certifications: - Security+ – CompTIA Security+ - CySA+ – CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst - Other relevant security or cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Security Specialty, Azure Security Engineer) Benefits - Health & Welfare Benefits: Comprehensive plans tailored to your needs, effective from day one. - Retirement Savings: Robust programs to help you secure your financial future. - Employee Discounts: Access to a wide range of discounts on merchandise, services, travel, and more. - Career Growth Opportunities: Paths for advancement within a global organization. - Paid Training: Learn while you earn with award-winning learning platforms. - Paid Time Off: Competitive PTO packages to help you recharge. - Great Work Environment: Join an award-winning culture that values diversity and inclusion.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description Ardent is seeking a Cloud Security Architect to ensure Zero Trust enforcement extends consistently across cloud and on-premises environments. This role will design secure hybrid architectures integrating segmentation, identity-based access, workload isolation, and secure API communication. The architect will align cloud-native controls with enterprise Zero Trust policy models. This position ensures compliance with FedRAMP and federal cloud security frameworks while supporting automated posture validation and secure workload deployment. Responsibilities and Duties - Leads teams with building comprehensive zero trust solutions that encompass Users, Applications, and Infrastructure. - Understanding of the Agile SDLC and how SecDevOps plays a role in it. - Coordinate coding and unit testing phases of system development and efforts. - Manages delivery on all projects and commitments. - Lead and contribute to the service delivery across multiple project phases of the software development life cycle. - Serve as subject matter expert for leading Best practices across SecDevOps, CICD, Rapid Release, and related end-to-end automation. - Good communication skills. - Managing, building, configuring, administering, operating, and maintaining all components that comprise the SecDevOps environment. - Developing and maintaining secure deployments to AWS and multi-cloud environment and other tasks. - Scripting and maintaining security embedded build environments. - Working with project teams to integrate their products into the Zero Trust, SecDevOps environment. - Strong AWS and other cloud services understanding and experience. - Document, schedule, and execute software scans, builds, and deployments. - Document Security, CM, SCM Plans, Releases, and Build Procedures. - Production-level experience in Infrastructure Automation using Ansible, Terraform, Docker, ECS, EKS, ECR, and Fargate. - Design, configure, and support software build/deploy pipelines (CI/CD, Jenkins, Git, GitLab). - Assist with software deployment through various staged operating environments (e.g., Development, QA, Staging, Production). - Scripting and maintaining build environments. - Linux and shell scripting. Qualifications - Must be a U.S. Citizen. - Bachelors degree in related field (Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Business Management preferred). - 10+ years of software development experience. - 7+ years of experience in a combination of software development and technical operations support. - Deep understanding of user credentials, identities, authentication, SSO, applications, workloads, endpoints, networks, data, automation, security analytics, SIEM, SOAR, threat intelligence. - Experience with monolith and micro service architectures using containerization and Kubernetes. - Solid understanding of managing polyglot technologies, frameworks, and apps. - Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) - compliant software stack (Kubernetes) and Open Container Initiative (OCI) Compliant containers (Docker). - Demonstrated ability to manage projects from end to end with minimal supervision. - Expert knowledge of the underlying concepts of Branching, Merging, and Archiving software throughout the development lifecycle. - Proven experience managing system changes without interruption to the user. - Familiarity with Continuous Integration tools such as source control (GIT preferred), build (Maven, Gradle, npm), and automation (Jenkins, Github Actions, scripting). - GovCon experience preferred. - Technical lead experience preferred. Requirements - Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process. - We highly encourage all Veterans and those with disabilities to apply. Company Description Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other basis protected by state, local, or federal law.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Security Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to drive our customer’s security transformation on the Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 Platforms. This is a customer-facing role, owning the security-focused technical relationship and strategy between the customer and Microsoft as well as customer engagements, including architecture, implementation, and operational health. As a Cloud Solution Architect - Data Security, you will specialize in one or more of the following categories: - Cloud Security - Threat Protection - Identity and Access Management (IDAM) Key responsibilities include: - Land an end-to-end value prop for Security (i.e. Zero Trust) which spans the breadth of Microsoft Security offerings. - Empower customers in their Microsoft Security adoption journey, helping them to define a Secure strategy, Architecture, and implementation of necessary security controls aligned with Microsoft Azure and M365 E5 Security Services including Identity and Access management, Threat Protection, Cloud Security, Information Protection. - Perform hands-on activities, supporting the customer in evaluating native security solutions in areas such as Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, and Azure Active Directory, among others. - Accelerate Business Value of overall Azure adoption by improving security posture and ensuring that the solution exhibits “Secure by Design” or “Well-Architected” framework. - Apply technical knowledge to architect security solutions that meet business needs, infusing key security technologies where appropriate. - Run Architectural Design Session to build a plan for implementing the solution – governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment. - Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and practices, connect with Global Security teams at Microsoft, Engineering and Product teams to remove blockers and influence the solution roadmap. - Troubleshoot technical issues to prove value of implementation of Security technologies. - Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects and MS stakeholders in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions with the Microsoft Security platform. - Orchestrate technical resources that may be required to deliver business outcomes. Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 4+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience. - 2+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external). - 2+ years experience working on technical projects. - Technical preferences in one or more of the following categories: - Cloud Security - Threat Protection - Identity and Access Management Requirements - This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship. - Certification in one or more of the following technologies preferred: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies, Cloud Security, Online Certificate Status Protocol, Global information Assurance Certification, Incident Response. - Knowledge of cloud security platforms. - Enterprise-scale technical experience and experience to learn new cloud security technologies and understand relevant cloud security market trends. - Experience in security and expertise around related technologies and concepts such as Zero Trust, threat management, Security Operations Center monitoring, Extended Detection & Response, Access Control, Cloud Security Architecture, and/or Data Security. Benefits - Cloud Solution Architecture IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,100 - $169,800 per year. - Cloud Solution Architecture IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. - Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here .