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Platform Security Architect

Richmond, Virginia - Posted on July 24, 2025
Published By Gwendolyn Wood

Trillium Professional is now seeking a Platform Security Architect in Richmond!

The Platform Security Architect is a critical technical role responsible for ensuring the secure design and compliance of the platform’s enterprise architecture. This candidate will be considered a technical expert. Ideal candidates will have the following expectations, execute architecture design reviews to evaluate security controls and identify opportunities to enhance the security posture of the Platform services, build relationships with supplier infrastructure architects and engineering leads to disseminate and explain secure design methodologies and policies. Ideal candidates will also understand the landscape and components of cutting-edge architectures and the methods to securely deploy them.

Duties/Responsibilities:
• As part of a team, ensure the adoption of security architecture and engineering initiatives in order to effectively and securely support the organization in meeting specific business technology needs.
• Review solutions to be deployed in cloud and on premise environments
•Assist with Architectural design documentation and System Security Plan documentation
•Monitor and guide systems to ensure Authority to Operate is achieved in a timely manner
• Understand technical security issues and the implications to the Platform and be able to communicate them to management and other business leaders.
• Responsible for guiding the design and implementation of secure solutions and services across the Platform.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of IT industry best practices, technologies, architectures, and emerging technologies.
• Must have knowledge and understanding to be able to configure and implement security solutions to reduce risk to an acceptable level.
• Understand emerging security technologies and determine the appropriate use within business applications.
• Must be able to provide technical guidance and foster a collective understanding of data flows and security issues encountered in both premise based and cloud applications and services.
• Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies
• Must be able to incorporate business drivers, needs and strategies to address future business / technology needs.
• Work in teams for secure application and/or infrastructure solution architecture.
• Collaborate with our Governance organization and functions including Internal Audit, Legal and Compliance, Privacy, and Sourcing to ensure that the Platform maintains a strong cybersecurity posture.

Pay rate is $92-100/hour. Apply now!

-Experience providing high-level design and architecture diagrams
-Technically validating solutions and connecting business, data, security, systems, and other technical and non-technical architectures               
-Familiarity with open architecture and cybersecurity architecture principles that achieve cybersecurity framework goals.       
-Familiar with encryption technologies used in commercial operating systems, including Public Key Infrastructures-continued
-Symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, certificate trust stores and the use of key escrow for discovery and legal purposes
-At least 8 years of experience in network and endpoint security architecture
-Familiarity with protocols commonly used in commercial networks, such as SMB, RPC, HTTP, SQL
-Familiar with multi-tiered network applications, common ports and protocols used in those communications        
-Familiar with Vulnerability Scoring (CVSS) and exploitation mechanisms of common vulnerability types (overflows, cross-site-scripting, SQL injection)
-Experience working with Cloud Native architecture paradigms, patterns and security methodologies.
-Familiarity with NIST, IRS 1075, HIPAA, FedRAMP and other cybersecurity frameworks
-Familiar with methodologies for scalable, automated creation of System Security Plan, and Authority To Operate, Attestation & Validation        
-Candidate should have a background in general security practices such as identity and access management (IAM)-continued          
-Experience leading the alignment of on-going activities in support of critical State & Federal mandates such as -continued
-Continuous Diagnostics and Monitoring (CDM), Executive Orders related to cybersecurity, and guidance from OMB and NIST            
-Familiarity with open architecture and cybersecurity architecture principles that achieve cybersecurity framework goals

Desired Skills / Certifications:
-AWS Certified Security
-Azure Architect Certification
-Google Architect Certification
-Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
-Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)                        


Trillium has been recruiting and placing professionals for over 30 years. From Fortune 100 companies to small businesses, our philosophy remains the same: to achieve excellence by providing quality employees and an uncompromising level of service. We believe in honesty, integrity, and a simple philosophy of providing value to our customers and our employees. We strive to be unsurpassed in the recruitment and placement of quality and skilled professionals. Trillium is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for the employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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Trillium offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes the ability to participate in health insurance and retirement plans, paid holidays, state required leave, and vacation days, if applicable. Trillium’s offerings are dependent on the state in which the assignment is located, length of time worked, and may change depending on assignment. Benefit packages for direct hire placements vary based on the client company.

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