Senior Cloud Solutions Architect/Engineer

Strategic ACI is seeking a Cloud Solutions Architect/Engineer who will work across Cloud Ops, Security, Development, Auditing teams at NGA to design resilient, flexible, and scalable cloud solutions to support GEOINT Enterprise operations.

Responsibilities:

• Formulate, document, and communicate methodologies for building and operating highly available, scalable services.
• Provide assistance in reducing and resolving production incidents (e.g. Site Reliability Engineering).
• Look for opportunities to improve all operations processes.
• Evaluate, build, and modify automation for deploying and operating production services. Create, assess, update, and maintain documentation pertaining to Product Lines.
• Develop and design elastic, resilient and self-healing Cloud native applications and workflows.
• Craft excellent documentation for respective projects and carrying ownership for the code and the instructional tutorials of how to use it.
• Work with team members to design, architect and implement solutions across geographic locations.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.
• Five or more years of experience with cloud-based services or technologies.
• 12-18 years of experience.
• Understanding of object-oriented software with languages like Java, C++, Python or Ruby ideally in SOA applications.
• Understanding of networking and core Internet protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, and distributed networks).
• Understanding of industry standards for designing and implementing IaaS/PaaS/SaaS in Cloud environments.
• Experience with modern container orchestration systems, such as: Kubernetes, Mesos, DC/OS, Swarm.

Desired:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.
• Certified AWS Solutions Architect.
• Two or more years of demonstrated experience in Site Reliability Engineering functions.
• Experience with Linux/UNIX systems and the best practices for deploying applications to those stacks.
• Experience designing, implementing, and operating in a DevSecOps.
• Experience using APIs and RESTful services.
• Experience with infrastructure configuration and automations processes and tools: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Fabric.
• Experience with security in the cloud, such as: Intrusion, penetration, and vulnerability scanning.
• Experience with monitoring solutions, such as: ELK, Splunk, SUMO, Nagios, Prometheus.
• Experience with build automation and continuous integration/delivery ecosystem capabilities, such as: Git, Gerrit, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, Docker, Nexus.