Senior Cloud Solutions Architect-Engineer

Strategic Alliance Consulting Inc. (Strategic Aci) - Chantilly, VA

Full-time - Senior

Chantilly, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Cloud Solutions Architect/Engineer at Strategic ACI will collaborate with various teams to design and implement resilient, flexible, and scalable cloud solutions that support GEOINT Enterprise operations. This role involves formulating methodologies for high availability, reducing production incidents, and improving operational processes while ensuring effective documentation and ownership of projects.

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 carry ownership for the code and instructional tutorials of how to use it.
• Work with team members to design, architect and implement solutions across geographic locations.

Requirements

• 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 overall.
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• 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 environment.
• Experience using APIs and RESTful services.
• Experience with infrastructure configuration and automation 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.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 100% benefits paid (Includes; health, dental, and vision plan premiums) for all full-time employees and their families
• 401k with 5% match vested at day one
• Profit sharing commensurate with company growth
• PTO - 3 weeks and 3 days per year
• 11 Company Paid Holidays (aligned with Federal Government)
• Long term/Short term disability
• 1.5x salary life insurance
• $100 per month cell phone allowance
• $6000 cash in lieu of benefits per year if employee is insured elsewhere
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 per year for college or professional certifications
• Casual dress code, company lunches, flexible schedules, employee phone plan discounts