At Ardent, we hire people who want more than a job — they want to serve a mission that matters. Our teams support the federal government’s most critical national security and defense priorities, helping protect the nation, strengthen resilience, and advance the technologies and capabilities that keep America secure. For veterans, cleared professionals, and purpose-driven innovators, Ardent is a place to continue serving alongside a team that understands the importance of the mission and the people behind it.

We also know top talent has choices, which is why we back our mission with benefits and flexibility that stand out: competitive pay, comprehensive health coverage, flexible PTO, federal holidays off, tuition reimbursement, professional development support, wellness stipends, and a culture that values and rewards hard work, dedication, and adaptability. If you want to build something meaningful, while enjoying the kind of flexibility and support that you need to do your best work — Ardent is where your next mission begins.

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:

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 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.