Systems Engineering Architect

D2 Government Solutions is looking to hire 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.

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

• Requires BS degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 + years of prior relevant experience; OR 4 years of experience in lieu of degree
• Must currently possess an active Top Secret security clearance, with ability to obtain SCI and CI Poly
• Experience optimizing and managing AWS/cloud infrastructure cost including storage, compute, and database
• Experience with Windows and Linux
• Direct experience with AWS core architecture and services
• Experience/background knowledge of Dev Ops COTS capabilities and implementation to Cloud
• Experience with System (hardware, software and networking) Design and Architecture.
• Understanding of agile SW development methodologies
• Experience developing a backlog and technical roadmap
• Experience with disaster recovery (ITDR) and data retention
• Experience as a systems engineer or architect
• Experience briefing stakeholders at all levels

• An active TS/SCI with a Polygraph
• DD8570 compliance
• Experience with technologies such as WMS, WFS, KML
• Experience with AWS architecture best practices, resiliency capabilities and services
• Experience with AWS EKS
• Experience writing, maintaining, and describing architecture diagrams
• Experience optimizing Software deployments and reducing downtime, for example implementing a blue/green strategy
• Technical certifications including Microsoft and/or AWS
• Direct experience with Dev Ops deployments to cloud environments GITLAB

D2GS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.