Job ID: 2401863
Location: CHANTILLY, VA, US
Date Posted: 2024-02-26
Category: Information Technology
Subcategory: Cloud Comp Engr
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
SAIC’s National Intelligence Community (NIC) Business Unit, USG Mission and Information Technology Division, provides solutions and services supporting digital modernization programs in areas such as systems engineering, multi-cloud computing, cybersecurity, data science and analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, quantum computing, application development, DevSecOps, cloud network operations, and secure communications.
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Cloud Architect with Azure experience to join our multi-million dollar National Intelligence program supporting the Cloud Investment Multi-Cloud Management (CIMM) team. As a contributor to the Intelligence Community’s first multi-cloud initiative, you will be at the epicenter of emergent cloud computing technologies, establishing a foundation that will evolve to include all agencies within the IC. As a Cloud Architect, you will advise Government IT teams on the design and build of single- or multi-cloud computing architecture solutions that meet mission requirements, and develop future technology and architectural advancements to support the Government’s architectural strategy, cloud migration, and continued evolution.
Responsibilities include:
Advising senior business and technical personnel to aid in the delivery of robust, scalable Cloud Architectures that meet or exceed mission requirements
Serving as a cloud agnostic advocate and helping to educate the Government customer on cloud services appropriate to meet mission requirements
Providing advisory services to maintain and evolve the future-state service provider-authorized, multi-Cloud Architecture, and knowledge database based on ever-changing IC mission needs and ensuring optimization of cost, consumption, and performance of services are achieved across all Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)
Developing a baseline multi-Cloud Architecture methodology and framework for implementation within the C2E multi-cloud ecosystem
Supporting the development and maintenance of data models, data dictionaries, data maps, and other architecture artifacts across the enterprise
Designing all cloud solutions in alignment with applicable policies, standards, and practices
Providing creative and innovative architectural solutions to ill-defined requirements
Reviewing and accessing impact of proposed scope changes to future architectures
May be required to provide cloud agnostic technical guidance in the formulation of customer multi-cloud work statements
Qualifications
Required:
Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
Bachelors and eighteen (18) years or more experience; Masters and sixteen (16) years or more experience; PhD or JD and thirteen (13) years or more experience.
Five (5) or more years of experience in a cloud and/or hybrid environment
Five (5) or more years of demonstrated experience in one or more of the following activities:
IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services (e.g., compute, storage, network, security, administration, automation, application services, and databases)
Designing and deploying cloud solutions to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM Cloud, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Large-scale data architecture, data modeling, database design, and information systems implementation
Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in enterprise data strategy, data governance practices, data stewardship principles, data standards, and metadata management best practices
Ability to translate requirements into end-to-end designs for systems that involve multiple interfaces and support data repositories
Strong customer service skills, teaming skills, and the ability to collaborate within a cross-functional team, as well as the CSPs (AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and Oracle)
Certifications in any of the following CSPs:
Azure
OCI
GCP
IBM
- AWS
Desired:
Strong analysis and quality assessment skills
Experience with successful full life cycle cloud development projects
Experience with various Linux and Microsoft Windows OSs distributions
Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL) and databases
Experience migrating both custom built and enterprise apps to and from on-prem to cloud
Experience debugging performance and technical issues
Experience building and deploying systems in the cloud using continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) frameworks and infrastructure automation
Ability to explain technical issues clearly and accurately to both technical and non-technical audiences
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.