Cloud Security Architect

Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employee. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed.  We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues and our communities set us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us.  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 P...