Solutions Architect-Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Solutions Architect at IT solution provider CompuNet: delivers pre- and post-sales security consulting — designing solutions with customers, writing SOWs/BOMs, setting deployment standards, and mentoring engineers. Requires deep expertise across areas like NIST/CIS frameworks, EDR/XDR, SIEM/SOAR, firewalls, identity/MFA, and PKI.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Portland, OR 97224; Seattle, WA 98028
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Security
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Well-developed communication skills; can communicate technical information to technical and non-technical staff
- Proven technical ability, relationship management, and problem-solving skills
- Experience with a mix of advanced on-prem, hybrid, and cloud technologies and IT operations
- Broad understanding of security concepts (frameworks, EDR/XDR/NDR, SIEM, SOAR, SecOps, OT/IoT security, IR, vulnerability management, firewall/IPS, NAC, AppSec/WAF, PAM, identity/MFA, PKI, MDR, DLP) w
- Prior experience delivering consulting engagements and managing customer expectations
- Maintains expert-level certifications in their technical areas of focus
Nice to have
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Expert level certifications
- Bachelor's degree and/or relevant industry certifications
- Proficiency in designing, deploying, and delivering enterprise security solutions
- Highly skilled in technical project management and documentation delivery
- Team player with the ability to mentor and onboard new engineers
Full description
Why join CompuNet?
CompuNet values its people more than any other asset—and realizes the contributions made by each employee are a reflection of their education, experience, certifications, expertise and passions. We strive to take care of each other, do the right thing and help our customers succeed. We work to build lasting relationships and are proud that our customers across many industries see us as a trusted advisor. Putting the customer at the center of every engagement, our mission is to design, test, deploy and support the right IT solutions for every customer.
We offer a generous total compensation package for our employees, including competitive wages, medical, dental, vision, PTO, company-matching retirement plans, profit-sharing and more.
What You'll Do
We are seeking a Cybersecurity Solutions Architect to join our team. Our engineers are the foundation of success for our customers and our business. The Cybersecurity Solutions Architect is part of an exceptional team of Engineers and Architects that partner with and work as trusted advisors for our customers. This role provides both pre- and post-sales consultation, design, and implementation support and oversight.
Our Cybersecurity Solution Architects have diverse backgrounds and typically include a combination of experience in: Engineering, technical aptitude across several technologies, and are skilled at developing a broad and deep understanding of our customer’s requirements. This position will mentor other engineers and assist with creating bill of materials, statements of work, and technical proposal components. This role performs the following responsibilities:
- Clearly communicates technical information to customers including technical and non-technical staff
- Works with Solutions Architects to create and evaluate system designs
- Collaborates with customers on solution designs and deployments
- Maintains Expert Level Certifications in their technical areas of focus
- Engages and assists Solutions Engineers with key strategic accounts
- Provides both the pre-sales designs and mentor post-sales implementations with engineering peers
- Develops deployment standards for CompuNet’s diverse Customer base and verticals. Ensures deployment standards and best practices are reflected in Statements of Work (SOW). Engages with other Senior Solutions Engineers, as well as local Solutions Architects, to improve and maintain deployment standards within CompuNet
- Assists Engineering Directors and Managers in identifying professional services opportunities and with recruiting and hiring efforts
- Pairs with Engineering Directors and Managers to review project scopes for validation