Senior Cloud Architect

Title:

Senior Cloud Architect

Description

This program provides SETA (Systems Engineering Technical Advisor) & SE&I (Systems Engineering & Integration) services to an IC customer with a focus on assured space communications and supporting IT infrastructure. This is primarily broken into four major divisions including systems engineering, acquisition, mission operations, and security support. Systems engineering support focuses on the end-to-end processes for managing programs, including Readiness, Configuration Management, integrated master schedule, systems analysis, future studies and innovations. Acquisition support is focused on helping government COTRs in all aspects of managing development contracts to deliver capabilities that meeting requirements. Mission operations roles include the support to integrating new capabilities into operations and leading anomalies response teams when issues arise. Security support is focus on ensuring IT systems comply with the agency's IT Security policy (ICD-503) with personnel certified to information assurance security standards. This position is part of the Engineering Support Team and is primarily focused on helping the customer take advantage of the agency provided cloud infrastructure. This position will play a key role in migrating critical mission capabilities into a hybrid and/or 'public' cloud system with the intent of reducing infrastructure costs, increasing resiliency, reducing vendor-lock and helping establish a modernized, flexible, portable enterprise, capable of quickly incorporating new capabilities across multiple mission areas and quickly taking advantage of emerging efforts. This position will lead trade studies and AoAs to tackle complex cloud integration challenges in the areas of security, adaptability for high-end computing and low latency requirements, etc. This position is in Chantilly, VA.

Required

• Relevant Experience: 10 to 12 years with BS or 8 to 10 years with MS or 5 to 7 years with a PhD
• Clearance required: TS/SCI with CI Poly
• Technical BS in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical degree.
• Knowledge of full software development lifecycle processes, enterprise application software installation and maintenance, integrating with third-party applications through API interfaces and other means
• Experience in architecting multiple cloud systems to provide high-end processing solutions.
• The ability to work well within a team of engineers
• Demonstrated success in working with government customers.

Desired

• At least 5 years of experience with Commercial/Government systems integration into cloud environments
• BS in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or Computer Science.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification
• Technical knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, and DevOps; frontend such as Vue, React, Angular, AngularJS, and Meteor; backend such as Node, Express, Koa, Java; and Database: MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle, SQL Server; performance monitoring such as AWS Cloudwatch, Datadog, New Relic; and Cloud Infrastructure, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Jira; SSO, SAML, SFTP, PM2, load-balancing, auto-scaling, and automated testing
• Knowledge of fundamental networking, security, and systems engineering concepts such as TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, Load Balancing, and SSL

In compliance with the U.S. federal government's vaccine mandate, only candidates who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or have a reasonable accommodation or approved medical exception will be considered for this position.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.