Enterprise Architect Security Clearance

Position: Enterprise Architect with Security Clearance
Location:

Huntsville, AL
Required Clearance: SECRET Required

Education:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, systems engineering, engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.

Required Experience:

Senior-level enterprise architecture and systems engineering experience designing secure, highly available infrastructure, virtualization, storage, backup/recovery, and disaster-recovery solutions in large or mission-critical environments. Position Description Ping Wind is seeking an Enterprise Architect to provide architecture leadership for PAE Fires enterprise systems, virtualization, storage, backup/recovery, and continuity capabilities. This role will translate mission, security, interoperability, availability, and recovery requirements into scalable architectures and technical roadmaps that support secure 24/7 operations, resilient infrastructure, and successful disaster recovery and COOP execution.

Responsibilities Typical Responsibilities/Tasks:

• Develop and maintain enterprise and system architecture recommendations spanning ESXi hosts, virtual machines/appliances, Red Hat Open Shift, VDI, Windows/Linux platforms, storage, applications, backup/recovery, and supporting infrastructure dependencies.

• Perform system analysis and design and provide architecture guidance for establishing and sustaining virtual infrastructure and highly available enterprise services.

• Architect scalable backup and recovery solutions compatible with Linux NFS, Windows SMB, the existing Enterprise SAN, Cohesity, Dell Power Protect Data Manager, VMware Replication, and vSAN environments.

• Define integration patterns for policy-driven protection and recovery services, including vProxy, DD Boost, NDMP, REST APIs, S3-compatible object storage, VMware vCenter/vSphere, and application-aware protection for platforms such as SQL Server.

• Establish architecture approaches that support defined Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), service-level expectations, enterprise growth, and long-term retention requirements.

• Lead or support Business Impact Analysis, risk management, contingency planning, continuity planning, and disaster-recovery architecture recommendations across the enterprise.

• Recommend high-availability and redundancy strategies appropriate to system impact levels, including load balancing, data mirroring, replication, and recovery/restoration approaches.

• Support development, review, testing, and continuous improvement of contingency, business continuity, disaster recovery, and COOP reconstitution plans; document findings and recommendations in required technical products.

• Ensure architecture recommendations align with applicable Army IM&T and cybersecurity standards and contingency guidance, including AR 25-1, AR 25-2, AR 500-3, and applicable NIST guidance.

Required Qualifications
• Demonstrated enterprise architecture or senior systems engineering experience in mission-critical IT environments requiring high availability and 24/7 operational support.

• Strong architecture knowledge of VMware ESXi/vCenter/vSphere/vSAN, virtual machines, VDI, Windows Server, Linux/RHEL, and container or Open Shift platforms.

• Experience designing enterprise storage, SAN, backup, replication, recovery, and long-term retention solutions across physical and virtual workloads.

• Hands-on knowledge of enterprise backup/recovery platforms such as Cohesity and Dell Power Protect Data Manager, including interoperability with NFS, SMB, vProxy, DD Boost, NDMP, REST, S3-compatible storage, and application-aware agents.

• Experience defining and validating RPO/RTO targets, high-availability patterns, redundancy, failover, restoration testing, and disaster-recovery/COOP capabilities.

• Ability to produce architecture diagrams, technical recommendations, standards, roadmaps, and decision support for Government technical leaders and cross-functional teams.

• Working knowledge of Army/DoD security, continuity, and system-management requirements applicable to enterprise infrastructure.

• SECRET security clearance. Desired Qualifications
• TOGAF, DoDAF, or…