Senior Solutions Architect – Vulnerability/Exposure Management
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Senior Solutions Architect modernizing vulnerability and exposure management for Trace3, a transformative IT solutions and consulting provider. Leading CTEM architecture, presales engagements, and security operations enablement.
Responsibilities:
- Lead complex client engagements as the senior architect for vulnerability management modernization, CTEM program development, exposure management architecture, and risk-based remediation strategies
- Assess client vulnerability and exposure management capabilities, technologies, processes, and operational maturity
- Design target-state architectures integrating vulnerability scanning, attack surface management, cloud and container security, identity exposure, and attack path analysis
- Develop and operationalize CTEM programs for exposure discovery, prioritization, validation, and remediation
- Define risk-based prioritization methodologies using CVSS, EPSS, CISA KEV, threat intelligence, asset criticality, exploitability, compensating controls, and business context
- Architect operating models covering asset ownership, remediation workflows, SLAs, exception management, risk acceptance, executive reporting, and team integration
- Design automation and orchestration workflows for findings normalization, enrichment, ticketing, workflow integration, and remediation validation
- Evaluate and incorporate AI-assisted and agentic capabilities with governance and human oversight
- Incorporate threat-informed validation, attack path analysis, breach and attack simulation, penetration testing, and purple-team findings
- Collaborate with SOC/SIEM architects to integrate exposure intelligence with detection and response platforms
- Develop reference architectures, assessment methodologies, solution briefs, packaged offerings, and delivery playbooks
- Collaborate with Security Solutions practices, regional teams, Managed Services, and Service Delivery
- Serve as a technical counterpart to strategic security technology partners
- Support account teams with technical discovery, solution architecture, competitive positioning, proposals, SOWs, effort estimation, and technical validation
- Deliver technical enablement, workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions; mentor junior architects and early-career practitioners
- Provide secondary architectural and presales support across SIEM/SOAR, EDR/XDR, SOC modernization, threat intelligence, and AI-enabled security operations
- Represent Trace3 through executive briefings, partner engagements, industry events, thought leadership, and technical presentations
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university, or equivalent measurable knowledge and experience gained through industry, military, defense, or government operations
- 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with significant hands-on experience designing, implementing, operating, or modernizing enterprise vulnerability management or exposure management programs beyond product implementation alone
- Experience in a customer-facing presales, solutions architecture, or technology consulting role within a VAR, systems integrator, consultancy, or technology vendor
- Deep technical expertise in enterprise vulnerability management, risk-based vulnerability prioritization, CTEM principles, exposure assessment, and remediation lifecycle management
- Demonstrated experience with leading vulnerability and exposure management technologies, such as Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management, Wiz, Axonius, XM Cyber, or comparable enterprise platforms
- Ability to design target-state vulnerability and exposure management architectures, including platform consolidation, technology integration, program modernization, and scalable operating models
- Experience developing or operating enterprise vulnerability management programs, including asset discovery, inventory and ownership, vulnerability identification, findings normalization, risk prioritization, remediation tracking, exception management, and executive-level reporting
- Working knowledge of CVSS, EPSS, CISA KEV, and SSVC
- Familiarity with EASM, CAASM, attack path analysis, breach and attack simulation, and adversarial validation techniques
- Experience integrating platforms with CMDB, ITSM, SOAR, cloud security platforms, and security analytics solutions
- Experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP, including cloud workload security, container security, native security tooling, and cloud vulnerability and exposure management
- Practical understanding of automation, orchestration, and AI-assisted security capabilities
- Working knowledge of SIEM/SOAR, EDR/XDR, threat detection and response, and SOC operations
- Understanding of CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSIAM, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, or Google SecOps
- Working knowledge of NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-40, CIS Controls, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001, and CTEM-aligned exposure management frameworks
- Ability to conduct technical workshops, security assessments, architectural reviews, and executive briefings
- Experience creating technical documentation, presentations, architectural designs, implementation plans, proposals, SOWs, and strategic roadmaps
- Strong executive communication, interpersonal, collaboration, and customer presentation skills
- Strong problem-solving, organization, detail orientation, and time management skills
- Ability to manage multiple and changing priorities while meeting deadlines
- Ability to travel when needed (approximately 25–35%); holds a valid driver’s license
Benefits:
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for you and your dependents
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer Match
- 529 College Savings Plan
- Health Savings Account
- Life Insurance
- Long-Term Disability
- Competitive Compensation
- Training and development programs
- Major offices stocked with snacks and beverages
- Collaborative and cool culture
- Work-life balance
- Generous paid time off
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