Detection Engineer / SIEM Analyst

Ardent is seeking a Cloud Security Architect to join our team.

This is a remote position.

Position 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 encompasses 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 executes 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

Requirements:

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 microservice architectures using containerization and Kubernetes

Solid understanding of managing polyglot technologies, frameworks, and applications

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 branching, merging, and archiving software throughout the development lifecycle

Proven experience managing system changes without interruption to the user

Familiarity with CI tools such as source control (Git preferred), build tools (Maven, Gradle, npm), and automation (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, scripting)

GovCon experience preferred

Technical lead experience preferred

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.

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.