Jobs at 9th Way Insignia

Designs and assesses enterprise security architectures across Zero Trust, cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Develops security roadmaps, reference patterns, requirements, transition plans, architecture diagrams, and executive briefings. Evaluates system designs, integrations, data flows, identity patterns, and control dependencies for security and interoperability risks. Advises technical teams and leaders on architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and remediation priorities in large enterprise or government environments.

Designs and maintains cybersecurity telemetry and data pipelines for monitoring, detection, investigation, reporting, and risk analysis. Integrates logs, alerts, asset, identity, vulnerability, and other security data into analytics platforms. Defines data models, collection patterns, retention requirements, quality controls, and integrations while improving data completeness, normalization, timeliness, and correlation. Partners with security operations, engineering, data teams, and system owners to resolve telemetry gaps and strengthen visibility.

Plan and execute cybersecurity integration, interoperability, functional, and regression testing. Develop test plans, cases, data, procedures, and traceability artifacts; validate security controls across APIs, networks, applications, and cloud services. Document defects, support root-cause analysis, verify corrective actions, and contribute to release readiness, test reporting, and production acceptance activities.

Designs secure system and integration architectures for APIs, applications, platforms, data exchange, and operational services. Defines system requirements, data flows, interface patterns, and integration standards; evaluates architecture alternatives for security, scalability, reliability, performance, and supportability; coordinates with technical and business stakeholders; and produces architecture diagrams, interface specifications, integration plans, and technical decision records.

Analyze cybersecurity and continuous-diagnostics data to identify vulnerabilities, control gaps, asset issues, and risk trends. Validate and normalize data, reconcile asset and vulnerability records, develop dashboards and reports, and provide remediation recommendations. Coordinate with system owners and security teams to resolve discrepancies and verify remediation. Document analytical methods, data definitions, assumptions, and results.

Manage cybersecurity project planning and delivery, including integrated work plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, staffing, deliverables, reporting, change control, release readiness, issue escalation, and stakeholder communications. Coordinate meetings, maintain project records, and translate technical priorities into executable plans for complex, multi-team government cybersecurity operations and services.

Engineer and assess cybersecurity capabilities across identity, devices, networks, applications, data, and cloud platforms. Translate NIST, FISMA, RMF, and FedRAMP requirements into technical controls; support authorization activities; review security documentation and evidence; analyze vulnerabilities and control gaps; develop remediation recommendations; and advise stakeholders on security design and risk treatment.

Assess cybersecurity supply-chain risks involving vendors, products, software, services, and third-party dependencies. Document security requirements, findings, mitigations, and risk decisions; review supplier evidence, provenance, vulnerabilities, and remediation plans; coordinate with acquisition, engineering, legal, security, and program stakeholders; and continuously monitor supplier risks, threats, and corrective actions.

Engineers, configures, integrates, and sustains cybersecurity tools for detection, prevention, vulnerability management, configuration management, and compliance. Develops implementation plans, standards, procedures, and documentation; integrates security data with operational systems; analyzes performance, coverage, alerts, and data quality; and supports upgrades, testing, troubleshooting, and operational handoff.

Lead migration of Informatica PowerCenter ETL workloads from on-premises Oracle infrastructure to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Assess, configure, migrate, validate, troubleshoot, and optimize enterprise ETL processes across environments. Develop data reconciliation and source-to-target validation, resolve performance and connectivity issues, coordinate cloud and database dependencies, and maintain migration documentation, test plans, runbooks, and recovery procedures. Support production readiness, change control, defect resolution, security processes, and knowledge transfer for the VA Enterprise Data Warehouse.

Lead execution of a complex federal IT program supporting the VA CORP Service Line. Manage program, product, technical, financial, staffing, schedule, risk, quality, communications, deliverables, and customer coordination activities. Serve as the primary contractor liaison to Government stakeholders, oversee multidisciplinary teams, maintain plans and reporting, manage contract performance, support Agile and DevSecOps governance, and drive process improvement, automation, transition, and continuity activities.

Supports program management through business process and data analysis, requirements documentation, deliverable development, status reporting, process documentation, metadata management, and ad hoc reporting prioritization. Participates in Agile stakeholder meetings and continuous improvement initiatives, identifies data sources, evaluates processes, and supports sprint planning. Provides coaching, mentorship, and oversight to junior Program Analysts while collaborating with team members to maintain data accuracy and consistency.

Develops and analyzes federal government cost and pricing proposals, ensuring compliance with FAR, DFARS, solicitation requirements, and company policies. Builds cost models covering labor, indirect rates, materials, subcontractors, and other expenses; performs scenario analysis and supports price-to-win strategies. Collaborates with technical, program management, business development, and subcontractor teams, prepares cost narratives and basis-of-estimate documentation, responds to audits, and improves pricing tools and processes.

Administer and optimize an Oracle Enterprise Data Warehouse, including capacity monitoring, SQL and database performance tuning, schema and table refreshes, access controls, backups, recovery, patching, replication support, and disaster recovery testing. Implement and document database changes, troubleshoot production issues, maintain security and data integrity, and collaborate with developers, analysts, project managers, and stakeholders. The role is fully onsite in Washington, DC and requires eligibility for a security clearance.

Performs cybersecurity risk assessments, compliance reviews, audits, and RMF/ATO support for federal systems. Identifies vulnerabilities, control gaps, and compliance deficiencies; develops mitigation strategies, remediation reports, risk analyses, and traceability matrices. Coordinates with government stakeholders, auditors, system owners, engineers, and vendors. Maintains cybersecurity policies, evidence, findings, dashboards, and risk records while monitoring remediation and evolving federal requirements. The role may include occasional onsite visits and support for third-party and supply-chain risk management.

Provides configuration management, technical writing, documentation, change management, and knowledge management support for cybersecurity and IT programs. Develops and maintains technical artifacts, configuration items, baselines, repositories, procedures, diagrams, reports, and training materials. Ensures documentation is accurate, version-controlled, accessible, compliant with government standards, and synchronized with approved system configurations. Coordinates reviews, approvals, change control, quality assurance, and stakeholder communications throughout the project lifecycle.

Designs, assesses, implements, and supports secure cloud architectures for VA enterprise systems. Translates Federal, VA, and business requirements into security controls and engineering solutions; supports FedRAMP, RMF, A&A, and ATO activities; performs threat modeling, risk and gap analyses, architecture reviews, configuration-baseline assessments, and cloud security posture reviews. Develops security reference architectures and patterns, supports identity, networking, data protection, and application security, and advises technical and executive stakeholders on compliance, risks, and remediation.

Provides quantum computing, cryptography, and post-quantum cryptography expertise for federal cybersecurity modernization. Assesses cryptographic technologies, inventories algorithms and dependencies, evaluates quantum risks, and develops migration plans toward quantum-resistant standards. Designs crypto-agile architectures, conducts simulations and testing, implements algorithms using Python, C++, and Java, and supports security assessments, policy, governance, and technical reviews. Collaborates with architects, engineers, program managers, and government stakeholders while communicating quantum risks and modernization recommendations to technical and executive audiences.

Serves as the senior technical authority for enterprise cybersecurity architecture and engineering supporting a federal VA program. Leads security architecture reviews, threat modeling, risk and gap analyses, modernization, governance, requirements traceability, and secure implementation across cloud, health IT, network, data, identity, and emerging technologies. Advises government and technical leadership, guides multidisciplinary teams, develops architectural standards and recommendations, supports A&A and ATO activities, presents executive briefings, reviews deliverables, and mentors cybersecurity personnel.

Designs, develops, deploys, evaluates, secures, and maintains enterprise AI, machine learning, generative AI, and LLM solutions for government applications. Responsibilities include data preparation, model training and monitoring, evaluation, red-team testing, safety controls, documentation, governance, privacy protection, cybersecurity compliance, architecture reviews, and stakeholder collaboration. The role translates mission and technical requirements into production-ready, responsible AI capabilities.