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 Cloud Architect 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
- 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)
- Serving as a cloud agnostic advocate and helping to educate the Government customer on cloud services appropriate to meet mission requirements
- 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 assessing 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 FSP 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. Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
- 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)
- Certification(s):
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Cloud related (e.g., DevOps, Security, and/or ML)
Desired:
- Certifications in any of the following CSPs:
- Azure
- OCI
- GCP
- IBM
- Strong analysis and quality assessment skills
- Experience with successful full life cycle cloud development projects
- Experience with various Linux and Microsoft Windows OS 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
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