Job Description

Responsibilities

Peraton is looking for a Director, Cybersecurity Architect to join the Corporate Growth, Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions team as one of the technical leads behind our most competitive pursuits. You will provide thought leadership and design differentiated service offerings, architectures, and technical strategies for cybersecurity, zero trust, and cyber defense. These provide the people and process elements to the Peraton Labs technology developments. You will work directly alongside capture teams, growth leaders, sector CTOs, and technical SMEs from early strategic opportunity shaping through proposal submission to build solutions that win contracts and frameworks that make winning repeatable. If you are energized by high-stakes technical challenges and want to see your work translate directly into contract wins, this role was built for you.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the Peraton Enterprise Capabilities and Solutions Portfolio for cybersecurity, zero trust, and cyber defense from strategy through execution, ensuring every offering is aligned to business priorities, technically sound, and built to compete across all Peraton customer’s market spaces.
• Work directly with capture teams, sector growth leaders, and SMEs to shape Cybersecurity solutions from early opportunity identification through proposal submission.
• Develop technical discriminators, solution narratives, and competitive positioning materials that support capture and proposal efforts across the enterprise, with deep credibility in zero trust architecture, cyber defense, and risk management.
• Design and develop scalable, reusable cybersecurity service offerings, architectures, and technical frameworks that give Peraton's sector teams a competitive edge on federal pursuits.
• Continuously evolve the portfolio by analyzing capability gaps, technology readiness, and market trends across the federal cybersecurity landscape to identify portfolio enhancements and competitive differentiation opportunities that strengthen Peraton's position in core markets.
• Provide thought leadership and author white papers and other solution artifacts to support customer engagement efforts highlighting newly developed frameworks and Peraton Labs applicable technologies.
• Partner with sector growth teams, business stakeholders, and engineering leadership to translate market opportunities into viable, differentiated service offerings.
• Drive the design and architecture of services across the portfolio. Ensure each service is fully defined with supporting sales assets, cost models, and solution guides that equip sector teams to sell and deliver.
• Present technical strategies, cybersecurity architecture roadmaps, and solution recommendations to customers, capture teams, and executive leadership with the clarity and confidence to drive decisions.
• Engage with key customers, industry partners, and technology vendors to stay ahead of evolving threat landscapes, emerging cyber capabilities, and competitive dynamics in Peraton's target markets.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 16+ years of industry experience
• Deep expertise in Zero Trust Architecture design and implementation aligned to CISA and DoD Zero Trust Strategy and reference architecture in a federal environment
• Demonstrated experience with Risk Management Framework (RMF) and NIST 800-53, including direct involvement in system authorization, continuous monitoring, and compliance activities
• Proven experience designing and implementing Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) solutions including PIV, CAC, and federation standards in federal environments
• Working knowledge of SOC architecture, cyber defense operations, and the tools that power them including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and XDR platforms
• Experience integrating security into software development and delivery pipelines through DevSecOps practices and secure software development frameworks
• Direct experience supporting federal government customers in a contractor environment, with a working understanding of mission requirements, acquisition processes, and the competitive federal market
• Proven experience contributing to competitive federal pursuits, including technical solution development, architecture design, or competitive positioning in support of capture or proposal efforts
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex cybersecurity concepts into compelling solution narratives for capture teams, executive leadership, and government evaluators
• A demonstrated bias for action and a track record of delivering technical work that contributed directly to competitive wins.
• US citizenship and ability to obtain/maintain a Top Secret clearance

Desired Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph eligibility
• Direct experience in capture management, proposal development, or technical volume leadership on large-scale, competitive federal cybersecurity bids.
• Experience with Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) and data transfer architectures in classified and multi-domain environments.
• Familiarity with AI-driven threat detection, autonomous cyber defense, and machine learning applications in security operations.
• Experience with post-quantum cryptography standards, quantum-safe security architecture, and federal migration requirements aligned to NIST post-quantum standardization guidance.
• Working knowledge of supply chain risk management practices aligned to Executive Order 14028 and NIST guidance.
• Experience with confidential computing, hardware-based security enclaves, and trusted execution environments in federal or classified contexts.
• Familiarity with continuous Authority to Operate (cATO) frameworks and automated compliance monitoring tools that accelerate system authorization.
• Experience presenting cybersecurity architectures and technical solutions directly to senior government customers or evaluators.
• Prior experience developing competitive positioning materials, technical discriminators, or solution playbooks that supported pursuit efforts in the federal cybersecurity market.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CEH, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Security Engineer, or DoD 8140 compliant certifications at the advanced level

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$190,000 - $304,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.