Date Posted: 02/11/2026
Hiring Organization: Rose International
Position Number: 496900
Industry: Government/Staffing
Job Title: Security Architect
Job Location: Columbia, SC, USA, 29201
Work Model: Onsite
Shift: Regular
Employment Type: Temporary
FT/PT: Full-Time
Estimated Duration (In months): 7
Min Hourly Rate($): 90.00
Max Hourly Rate($): 105.00
Must Have Skills/Attributes: Cisco, Designing, Firewall, VPN
Experience Desired: Prior state or federal experience (2 yrs)
Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree
**C2C is not available**
Job Description
***Only qualified Security Architect – Consultant candidates located near the Columbia SC area to be considered due to the position requiring an onsite presence***
Required Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in an Information Technology (IT) related field
Preferred Certification:
• CCNP Security
• CCNP Routing and Switching
• CCSP
Required Skills:
• 3+ years of experience monitoring and analyzing existing rules and converting them into least-privilege rules for both private and web policies
• 3+ years of experience deploying and administering Cisco Secure Firewall for remote access and IPSEC-based VPN
• 3+ years of experience with Cisco endpoint web filtering technologies or similar technologies (Palo Alto Checkpoint Fortinet)
• 2+ years of experience deploying ZTNA or SASE tools
Preferred Skills:
• Previous deployment experience with Cisco SSE and ZTNA architecture and products or similar experience with other vendors
• Experience with Cisco SecureX Secure Endpoint and the Cisco Secure Client
• Experience administering Cisco Secure Access
• Experience administering Cisco Umbrella including Secure Internet Gateway products
• Experience designing implementing and managing Secure Access to support enterprise security strategies
• Experience deploying Cisco Remote Access VPN solutions on Cisco’s ASA platform
• Experience administering and interfacing with Check Point firewalls
Job Responsibilities:
• The Cisco Security Engineer will be responsible for designing implementing and managing secure access policies to support enterprise security strategies
• They must be able to serve as a subject matter expert on Cisco Web Secure Access including Secure Internet Gateway and with Secure Internet Access
• This role requires collaboration with Security IT and business stakeholders to test and validate migrated policies to ensure that existing security protections are maintained on the new platform
• This engineer will be responsible for deploying administering and supporting Cisco ASA Cisco Secure Firewall and Cisco Secure Access products to document existing policies and to migrating existing policies
• This includes migrating existing Umbrella SIG policy to Secure Access deployment of web filtering rules to replicate currently permitted access and to assist in deployment of remote access VPN and ZTNA-based access for end users
Additional Skills:
• Ability to communicate and coordinate with identified IT and business stakeholders
• Ability to train IT staff for ongoing administration of the product - **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**
- **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**
Benefits:
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