Title Certified Cloud Architect
Location: Madison, Wisconsin 53703 -Candidate MUST be a WI resident or willing to relocate to WI prior to starting the role
Duration: 12 months
Minimum Qualifications and Core Competencies:
The designated expert must demonstrate a unique blend of strategic advisory presence and deep, practical engineering capability: The Consultant need to have Active Security Clearance.
Executive Advisory: Proven experience serving as a trusted technical advisor to CISOs, CIOs, or senior executive leaders within public sector or heavily federated enterprise environments.
Teach-by-Doing Expertise: Documented success as a technical mentor, trainer, or engineering lead focused on pair-engineering and technical upskilling of infrastructure and security operations staff.
Security Control Mastery (SI-2): Comprehensive expertise operationalizing security controls, including tiering models, compensating control validation, and time bound risk governance structures.
Advanced Tooling Fluency: enterprise cyber stack Google Threat Intel or VirusTotal, Google SecOps, Mandiant ASM, Tenable.io, Microsoft Azure Arc, GitHub, GitHub Advanced Security, Ansible Tower, and Gemini/Anthropic AI security frameworks.
Cloud Architecture & DevSecOps Engineering.
5. Performance Monitoring & Safeguards:
Knowledge Transfer Auditing: Progress will be measured not only by technical deployment velocity but also by the documented proficiency gains of internal DET staff who assume ownership of the deployed tools.
Data Isolation Guardrails: The consultant is strictly forbidden from utilizing public or unvetted commercial AI models for analyzing State code, logs, or asset data. All engineering must occur exclusively within authorized, state-managed enterprise security instances.
Top Required Skills & Years of Experience:
Must be able to demonstrate prior experience doing the following in a large/complex environment:
· Proven experience serving as a trusted technical advisor to CISOs, CIOs, or senior executive leaders within public sector or heavily federated enterprise environments.
· Documented success as a technical mentor, trainer, or engineering lead focused on pair-engineering and technical upskilling of infrastructure and security operations staff.
· Comprehensive expertise in operationalizing security controls, including tiering models, compensating control validation, and time bound risk governance structures.
· Enterprise cyber stack Google Threat Intel or VirusTotal, Google SecOps, Mandiant ASM, Tenable.io, Microsoft Azure Arc, GitHub, GitHub Advanced Security, Ansible Tower, and Gemini/Anthropic AI security frameworks.
· Cloud Architecture & DevSecOps Engineering.
