True Zero Technologies, a veteran-owned small business, was founded on the principle that the purposeful enablement of people and technology in an organization directly ties to the quality of its outcomes. True Zero recognizes that those outcomes begin and end with our people, and that is what we have built a community of like-minded, driven, and passionate individuals and innovators who are aligned in a common goal of delivering top-tier services to our customers. Our culture and commitment have been recognized through numerous accolades, including being named one of the Best Places to Work in 2023 in two categories (“Prosperous and Thriving” ($5MM–$50MM in gross revenue) and “Mid-Atlantic Region” (DC, DE, MD, NC, VA, WV)), and again in 2025 as a Best Places to Work honoree. In addition, True Zero earned coveted spots on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in America in 2022, 2023, and 2025, a testament to our sustained growth driven by our people-first approach and unwavering dedication to excellence.
True Zero is seeking an Application & Infrastructure Specialist to lead Zero Trust architecture and implementation support for applications, workloads, platforms, cloud services, and legacy infrastructure. The role helps translate enterprise use cases into practical patterns for diverse system architectures while balancing modernization objectives with mission and operational constraints.
This specialist is responsible for application and workload integration considerations, technical dependencies, implementation variants, and reusable patterns that accelerate adoption across system families.
Position Responsibilities
- Develop reusable application, workload, cloud, and infrastructure Zero Trust patterns.
- Assess system architecture, workload interactions, service dependencies, security controls, and implementation constraints.
- Define application and workload policy enforcement, secure service communication, secrets management, and workload identity requirements.
- Support engineering plans, deployment sequencing, pilots, testing, validation, and operational readiness assessments.
- Document common variants for cloud, hybrid, legacy, and mission-critical system environments.
- Identify architectural deviations and lessons learned that should refine future enterprise patterns.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- Five or more years of application, cloud, infrastructure, platform, or systems architecture experience.
- Experience with enterprise application architectures, virtualization, containers, cloud platforms, APIs, and legacy integration.
- Working knowledge of Zero Trust application and workload security principles.
- Strong systems thinking, troubleshooting, and technical documentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, API gateways, service mesh, or modern application security controls.
- Experience supporting large Federal application portfolios.
- Experience modernizing legacy systems within security and availability constraints.
Preferred Certifications:
One or more of the following is preferred:
- CCSP
- AWS Solutions Architect
- Azure Solutions Architect
- CISSP
- Security+
