Principal Cybersecurity Architect – Network Security Posture Management

About IonQ

Location and travel

• The description lists onsite or hybrid work in Santa Clara or the Bay Area, California.
• Travel may be up to 10%.

The role

Responsibilities

• Design and own rules assessing device configurations, network behaviors, and access controls against NIST CSF, CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, FISMA, and FedRAMP.
• Build a scalable rule-authoring and lifecycle-management system for onboarding, versioning, and deploying standards and organizational policies.
• Track evolving threats, compliance requirements, regulations, and CVEs and update posture rules accordingly.
• Define risk scoring for findings at device, segment, and enterprise levels.
• Partner with platform engineering to support efficient execution at scale and APIs for rule ingestion, evaluation, and results.
• Engage customers and stakeholders, translate compliance needs into platform capabilities, and advise as the security subject matter expert.
• Shape the NSPM roadmap with Product and Engineering; mentor engineers and analysts and establish rigorous rule-review processes.

Requirements

• 12+ years in cybersecurity, network security, or security architecture, including at least 5 years at senior or principal level focused on network posture, compliance, or policy enforcement at scale.
• Deep hands-on NSPM platform experience and a track record of operationalizing assessment rules across large enterprise networks.
• Comprehensive knowledge of NIST CSF, CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, FISMA, and FedRAMP.
• Strong network-device security knowledge, including firewall policy analysis, routing protocol security, access control, and configuration hardening across multi-vendor environments such as Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, and Fortinet.
• Ability to operate across strategic and technical dimensions.

Compensation

• Structured salary information gives a yearly range of USD 248,557–325,425.