What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cloud Architect position at General Dynamics?
Job Details
Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret/SCI
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret SCI Polygraph
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
Cloud
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Solutions, VMware
Certifications:
None
Experience:
8 years of related experience
ship Required:
Yes
Job Description:
Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Senior Cloud Architect at GDIT. As a Senior Cloud Architect you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Here, you'll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you'll make the end user's experience your priority and we'll make your career growth ours.
We are on a mission to harness the power of cloud technologies to drive innovation and deliver reliable, scalable, and secure solutions. We are seeking a talented and self-motivated Senior Cloud Architect with experience in Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) to join our team.
Position Description
As a Senior Cloud Architect, you will take a leadership role in designing, architecting, and maintaining large-scale cloud infrastructure solutions on GDC. You will mentor junior and mid-level architects/engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that our cloud environments are efficient, secure, scalable and cost-efficient. This position is ideal for someone with hands-on experience with GDC and a cloud expert who enjoys solving complex problems, driving best practices, and influencing cloud strategy across the organization.
How a Senior Cloud Architect Will Make an Impact
What You'll Need to Succeed
Must be able to support data collection from a large, complex server and network infrastructure and user base
Must possess a strong work ethic, be self-directed, and be a detail-oriented professional
Must be willing to learn and adapt to new, cutting-edge technologies
Must be willing to document work and participate in the customer's change procedures
Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised
Experience with the following:
Experience with private clouds such as VMWare, OpenStack
Experience as a system architect/administrator/operator in a production environment
Knowledge of IAAS, PAAS and/or SAAS cloud technologies.
Knowledge of network technologies (MPLS, routing protocols, forwarding), common infrastructure components (IPAM, DNS, DHCP), load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
Apply Configuration Management disciplines to maintain hardware/software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
Develop and direct the development of content for a complex and growing infrastructure. This includes use cases for Dashboards, Active Channels, Reports, Rules, Filters, Trends, and Active Lists
Provide guidance to security analyst and network engineering staff
Maintaining up to date documentation of designs/configurations
8 years of related systems engineering experience.
Cloud platforms
Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques.
Knowledge of the associated hardware, software, and equipment
Professional certification in one or more specific technologies may be required, depending on job assignment.
EDUCATION
BS and 8 years of experience or equivalent combination or education and years of experience
Required Skills:
Experience with public clouds such as AWS, Rackspace, and preferably Google
Demonstrated ability to use problem solving techniques such as root cause analysis to resolve issues.
Clearance Level Must Be Able To Obtain:
Top Secret SCI Polygraph
Location: Springfield, VA
ship Required
The likely salary range for this position is $140,250 - $189,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Travel Required:
None
Telecommuting Options:
Onsite
Work Location:
USA VA Springfield
Additional Work Locations:
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.
We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation's most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret/SCI
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret SCI Polygraph
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
Cloud
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Solutions, VMware
Certifications:
None
Experience:
8 years of related experience
ship Required:
Yes
Job Description:
Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as a Senior Cloud Architect at GDIT. As a Senior Cloud Architect you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Here, you'll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you'll make the end user's experience your priority and we'll make your career growth ours.
We are on a mission to harness the power of cloud technologies to drive innovation and deliver reliable, scalable, and secure solutions. We are seeking a talented and self-motivated Senior Cloud Architect with experience in Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) to join our team.
Position Description
As a Senior Cloud Architect, you will take a leadership role in designing, architecting, and maintaining large-scale cloud infrastructure solutions on GDC. You will mentor junior and mid-level architects/engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that our cloud environments are efficient, secure, scalable and cost-efficient. This position is ideal for someone with hands-on experience with GDC and a cloud expert who enjoys solving complex problems, driving best practices, and influencing cloud strategy across the organization.
How a Senior Cloud Architect Will Make an Impact
- Lead the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure solutions, ensuring they are scalable, secure, cost efficient, and aligned with business objectives. Architect solutions using Google Distributed Cloud services.
- Drive automation through Infrascture-as-Code frameworks and optimize cloud environments for cost, performance, and reliability.
- Provide technical leadership to junior and mid-level architects and engineers. Promote best practices, cloud security standards, and operational excellence within the cloud architect/engineering team.
- Lead efforts to monitor cloud infrastructure using GDC and other tools.
- Work with DevOps engineers and software developers to integrate cloud infrastructure with CI/CD pipelines and application deployments
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues with cloud infrastructure, ensuring minimal downtime and quick recover from incidents
What You'll Need to Succeed
Must be able to support data collection from a large, complex server and network infrastructure and user base
Must possess a strong work ethic, be self-directed, and be a detail-oriented professional
Must be willing to learn and adapt to new, cutting-edge technologies
Must be willing to document work and participate in the customer's change procedures
Must possess excellent time management skills and the drive to work unsupervised
Experience with the following:
Experience with private clouds such as VMWare, OpenStack
Experience as a system architect/administrator/operator in a production environment
Knowledge of IAAS, PAAS and/or SAAS cloud technologies.
Knowledge of network technologies (MPLS, routing protocols, forwarding), common infrastructure components (IPAM, DNS, DHCP), load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
Apply Configuration Management disciplines to maintain hardware/software revisions, security patches, hardening, and documentation
Develop and direct the development of content for a complex and growing infrastructure. This includes use cases for Dashboards, Active Channels, Reports, Rules, Filters, Trends, and Active Lists
Provide guidance to security analyst and network engineering staff
Maintaining up to date documentation of designs/configurations
8 years of related systems engineering experience.
Cloud platforms
Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques.
Knowledge of the associated hardware, software, and equipment
Professional certification in one or more specific technologies may be required, depending on job assignment.
EDUCATION
BS and 8 years of experience or equivalent combination or education and years of experience
Required Skills:
Experience with public clouds such as AWS, Rackspace, and preferably Google
Demonstrated ability to use problem solving techniques such as root cause analysis to resolve issues.
Clearance Level Must Be Able To Obtain:
Top Secret SCI Polygraph
Location: Springfield, VA
ship Required
The likely salary range for this position is $140,250 - $189,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Travel Required:
None
Telecommuting Options:
Onsite
Work Location:
USA VA Springfield
Additional Work Locations:
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.
We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation's most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
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Salary : $140,250 - $189,750
