Systems Architect Security Clearance

Position: Systems Architect with Security Clearance
Systems Architect

Location:

Chantilly VA, Gaithersburg MD, Alexandria VA, St Louis MO
Clearance:
Top Secret (SCI CI Poly Eligible)
Required

Certifications:

DoD 8570 Compliant Certification (Security+)
Work Type:
Full Time

Job Description:

Grid Iron IT is seeking a Systems Engineering Architect to support AWS Resiliency and Recovery. The qualified candidate will work hand-in-hand with technical and program management leadership along with various external stakeholders, to help design and implement AWS Resiliency and Recovery capabilities including cross-AZ recovery procedures, infrastructure automation, and automated failover orchestration. This position will require experience across multiple System Engineering and architecture domains with a focus on standing up and maintaining cloud environments, and the deployment of custom code, COTS, and GOTS to those environments with a Geospatial focus.

Responsibilities:
This position involves systems engineering activities that support building and delivering new and innovative systems to implement analytics, exploitation, production and dissemination using web, remote desktop, and cloud technologies.
Analyze current system(s) architecture as well as service and systems dependencies from a full-stack perspective (Platform, Service, Code and Server) perspective
Identify and communicate use cases and implementation options where existing system availability and resiliency can be improved
Improve mission assurance, reduce operational risk, and enhance continuity of operations during AWS infrastructure disruptions.
Collaborate with other program technical leadership on the system architecture roadmap and backlog aligned to customer’s technology strategy and vision.
Decompose requirements, use cases, and need statements into epics and features with clearly defined acceptance criteria that will be assigned to agile development teams
Assist in designing and documenting solutions to enhance ICAM service adoption throughout the customer agency
Execute analysis of alternatives (AoA) and prototypes to determine the design of new system features and capabilities, then author white papers on your findings
Manage the system requirements and maintain requirements and interface control documents
Create and communicate design artifacts to the team to ensure applications and services are built to support the business and architecture objectives
Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies to executive management Core

Qualifications:

Analyze current system(s) architecture as well as service and systems dependencies from a full-stack perspective (Platform, Service, Code and Server) perspective
Identify and communicate use cases and implementation options where existing system availability and resiliency can be improved
Improve mission assurance, reduce operational risk, and enhance continuity of operations during AWS infrastructure disruptions.
Collaborate with other program technical leadership on the system architecture roadmap and backlog aligned to customer’s technology strategy and vision.
Decompose requirements, use cases, and need statements into epics and features with clearly defined acceptance criteria that will be assigned to agile development teams
Assist in designing and documenting solutions to enhance ICAM service adoption throughout the customer agency
Execute analysis of alternatives (AoA) and prototypes to determine the design of new system features and capabilities, then author white papers on your findings
Manage the system requirements and maintain requirements and interface control documents
Create and communicate design artifacts to the team to ensure applications and services are built to support the business and architecture objectives
Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies to executive management

Preferred Qualifications:

Analyze current system(s) architecture as well as service and systems dependencies from a full-stack perspective (Platform, Service, Code and Server) perspective
Identify and communicate use cases and implementation options where existing system availability and resiliency can be improved
Improve mission…