Remote: N
Salary: 80-90/hr
Location: Dulles, VA
Clearance: Secret
We are looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Architect to support a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate their server operations environment. The Sr. AWS Cloud Architect will assess and develop cloud-based architectures and requirements and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts in the development of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
Qualifications:
- Must be a US Citizen
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field.
- Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability prior to starting employment
- Must have 10+ years of applicable experience including 2+ years of AWS cloud architecting experience
- AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience
- Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading technical teams and projects
- Able to work effectively as a leader, in a group, or as an individual contributor
- Strong working knowledge of IT products and services
- Strong working knowledge of IT Service Operations – Innovative, technical mindset
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and proven ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization
- Ability to analyze information and identify relevant facts
- Ability to shape opinions of key stakeholders and influence outcomes
- Proven track record of achieving desired results
- Strong and diverse business and technical acumen
- Experience working with senior leadership including VP and Director levels
Desired Skills:
- Experience in the following AWS technologies: Lambda, EMR, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Route53, IAM, Cognito, Athena, Sagemaker, Glue, ELB
- Familiarity in the following AWS technologies: GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, SSM, SNS, SQS, S3/Glacier, KMS, Certificate Manager, Secrets Manager, CLI, EC2, EBS, WAF Security Groups, NACL, VPC, Availability Zones
- Familiarity with the following technologies in a cloud environment: Elk Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana), Ansible, Nessus, ClamAV, AIDE, Splunk, DNS, NAT, git
- Azure cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience
- Experience with AWS technologies, and migrations from on-prem to AWS
- Experience with agile tools, including Jira and Jira Align
Responsibilities:
- Partnering with the Chief Engineer to develop advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented architectures that provide new cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer
- Partnering with Agile Scrum teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented cybersecurity capabilities
- Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.