Overview Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details. Responsibilities Considered a recognized authority within the company. Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative. Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results. Bachelor's (or equivalent) with 10 - 12 years of experience or a Master's with 8 - 10 years of experience. Alternate Job Titles: Customer Solutions Architect, Information Systems Architect, Infrastructure System Architect, Solution Architect The Cloud Architect will support the Sponsor in analyzing, evaluating, integrating, and managing cloud-based systems for the Sponsor and perform the following activities: * Design, deliver optimized network infrastructure for performance and resilience
* Provide Cloud Engineering expertise to design and deliver complete mission systems (infrastructure/platform/applications/process) solutions within the cloud
* Provide guidance and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies
* Establish applications, environment uptime, and utilization scaling parameters and metrics, by which monitoring, and enhancements can be instrumented and reported
* Establish standard policy and compliance metrics by which cloud environment operations will be monitored, corrective responses issued, and reported
* Establish performance and cybersecurity monitoring framework, perform Continuous Monitoring, and report for corrective actions
* Establish and apply Zero Trust Architectures (ZTA) build and sustainment standards; Deliver information papers proposing emergent cloud-based technology and best practices applicable to Sponsor's mission domain, per government established periodicity; and * Establish methods of risk identification and tracking depicting the hosting environment infrastructure and the hosted applications, being visible to the Sponsor, and updated per government periodicity.
Qualifications Required: * Must Possess and Maintain TS/SCI with Poly
* Knowledge and experience with the various cloud provides Microsoft (Azure), AWS, Oracle, IBM, Google, etc * BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7
Desired: * AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
EEO Statement EEO Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.