Senior Systems Architect​/Independent Technical Evaluator

Location: Charleston, SC OR San Diego, CA

Security Clearance: Secret minimum

Job Type: Full-Time

Target Salary Range*: $180,000 - $210,000

• This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary

The Amatriot Group is seeking a Senior Systems Architect / Independent Technical Evaluator to support the assessment and implementation of a new mission-critical computer, network, and software environment for the U.S. Navy in Charleston or San Diego.

This is a senior/expert-level technical position intended for an engineer with unusually broad, hands-on expertise across computer hardware, Linux administration, network engineering, infrastructure automation, software development, and configuration management.

The selected candidate will serve as an independent technical assessor and evaluator of a new custom Navy system being implemented to replace an existing legacy environment. Rather than focusing exclusively on one technical discipline, this individual must be capable of evaluating the system holistically - physical server hardware and bare-metal provisioning through operating systems, network architecture, infrastructure-as-code, software, and configuration management.

The ideal candidate is a highly experienced systems technologist who can move comfortably between the hardware, infrastructure, network, and software layers of a complex classified system and independently determine whether the solution is technically sound, properly configured, secure, supportable, and aligned with Navy requirements.

• Serve as an independent technical assessor and evaluator for the implementation of a new custom Navy computer/network/software system.
• Evaluate system architecture, engineering decisions, configurations, integrations, and implementation approaches across the complete technology stack.
• Assess physical server and computer hardware, including component selection, configuration, system functionality, and hardware/software interactions.
• Evaluate and support bare-metal provisioning of physical computing infrastructure.
• Assess Linux-based environments, with particular emphasis on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and advanced Linux system administration.
• Evaluate infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) implementations using technologies such as Terraform.
• Review configuration-management and system-automation approaches, including environments utilizing Puppet or comparable technologies.
• Review and evaluate software components and automation developed using Go (Golang), including implementations leveraging the Go standard library.
• Assess network architectures and configurations supporting complex Navy computing environments.
• Evaluate software-defined networking (SDN) and networking implementations operating within secured and classified environments.
  
  Assess system interfaces, dependencies, network connectivity, and interactions between hardware, operating systems, infrastructure services, and application components.
• Evaluate configuration-management practices, system baselines, version control, change management, and configuration consistency.
• Identify technical deficiencies, architectural risks, integration issues, and potential points of failure and provide technically defensible recommendations to government and engineering stakeholders.
• Perform hands‑on technical investigation and validation within a secure laboratory environment.
• Review technical documentation, system configurations, architecture diagrams, implementation plans, and engineering artifacts.
• Communicate complex technical findings to Navy program…