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About the job Systems Architect

Systems Architect

Location: Chantilly or Alexandria, VA OR St. Louis, MO, Virginia

Number of openings: 1

Experience: bachelors and 8+ years

Salary: $160,000-170,000

Clearance: TS/SCI

Overview:

We are looking for a Systems Architect to support AWS Resiliency and Recovery. The qualified candidate will work hand-in-hand with technical and program management leadership along with various external stakeholders, to help design and implement AWS Resiliency and Recovery capabilities including cross-AZ recovery procedures, infrastructure automation, and automated failover orchestration. This position will require experience across multiple System Engineering and architecture domains with a focus on standing up and maintaining cloud environments, and the deployment of custom code, COTS, and GOTS to those environments.

Responsibilities:

  • Analyze current system(s) architecture as well as service and systems dependencies from a full-stack perspective (Platform, Service, Code and Server) perspective

  • Identify and communicate use cases and implementation options where existing system availability and resiliency can be improved

  • Improve mission assurance, reduce operational risk, and enhance continuity of operations during AWS infrastructure disruptions.

  • Collaborate with other program technical leadership on the system architecture roadmap and backlog aligned to customer's technology strategy and vision.

  • Decompose requirements, use cases, and need statements into epics and features with clearly defined acceptance criteria that will be assigned to agile development teams

  • Assist in designing and documenting solutions to enhance ICAM service adoption throughout the customer agency

  • Execute analysis of alternatives (AoA) and prototypes to determine the design of new system features and capabilities, then author white papers on your findings

  • Manage the system requirements and maintain requirements and interface control documents

  • Create and communicate design artifacts to the team to ensure applications and services are built to support the business and architecture objectives

  • Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies to executive management

Qualifications:

  • Requires BS degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 + years of prior relevant experience; OR 4 years of experience in lieu of degree

  • Must currently possess an active Top Secret security clearance, with ability to obtain SCI and CI Poly

  • Experience optimizing and managing AWS/cloud infrastructure cost including storage, compute, and database

  • Experience with Windows and Linux

  • Direct experience with AWS core architecture and services

  • Experience/background knowledge of DevOps COTS capabilities and implementation to Cloud

  • Experience with System (hardware, software and networking) Design and Architecture.

  • Understanding of agile SW development methodologies

  • Experience developing a backlog and technical roadmap

  • Experience with disaster recovery (ITDR) and data retention

  • Experience as a systems engineer or architect

  • Excellent communication skills

  • Experience briefing stakeholders at all levels

Preferred Qualifications:

  • An active TS/SCI with a Polygraph

  • DD8570 compliance

  • Experience with technologies such as WMS, WFS, KML

  • Experience with AWS architecture best practices, resiliency capabilities and services

  • Experience with AWS EKS

  • Experience writing, maintaining, and describing architecture diagrams

  • Experience optimizing Software deployments and reducing downtime, for example implementing a blue/green strategy

  • Technical certifications including Microsoft and/or AWS

  • Direct experience with DevOps deployments to cloud environments GITLAB