What are the responsibilities and job description for the Systems Architect - TS/SCI w/Poly position at Leading Path Consulting?
Systems Architect
Chantilly, VA.
(U) The Sponsor’s office is responsible for developing and managing enterprise business systems used every day to operate and manage the Sponsor’s mission. Sponsor capabilities serve the wide-ranging business needs of the mission, from human resources, financial, acquisition, medical, security, travel, supply chain, facilities, and support integration. Sponsor’s enterprise systems are critical to its mission. These business technologies are a heterogeneous mix of custom applications, Commercial off the Shelf (COTS), and middleware that evolved organically and separately over time.
(U) The Sponsor’s organization values highly agile software development and the ability to quickly demonstrate value to mission. Values embodied by the Sponsor’s organization include: continuous improvement, continuous learning, knowledge sharing, accessibility, user experience, community-driven software development models, loosely coupled architectures, improvement of customer and developer experiences, and adaptability.
(U) The Sponsor is looking for a team to help the Sponsor in identifying, evaluating and adopting technologies to improve business applications and support operations by planning, designing, building, managing, and expanding the Sponsor’s CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipeline. The CI/CD pipeline is the Sponsor’s current core DevSecOps environment and the Sponsor desires to expand its functionality and adoption.
2. (U) SCOPE
(U) The Contractor shall provide operations and maintenance (O&M), system engineering, application development, testing, integration and deployment of the Sponsor’s existing CI/CD pipeline, as well as, user support, customer support and outreach. Additionally, the Contractor shall be responsible for supporting and maintaining all other technologies and capabilities within the Sponsor’s portfolio. Currently, these include ODSS application monitoring and Test Data Management solutions, and may expand to additional Enterprise capabilities in the future. In adherence to ICD 503, the Contractor shall also support the Assessment and Authorization of Sponsor capabilities.
(U//FOUO) The Sponsor is allowing alternate work locations for this effort; and all the resources under this contract do not need to be co-located at the same location and can work at either Sponsor or Contractor facilities, or a combination of both. The Sponsor will allow the use of differing levels of security clearances, as appropriate for the work and the facility’s accreditation; however, the final product shall be integrated in a mix of classified and unclassified environments. The GTM will provide oversight.
The Contractor shall determine how requirements are satisfied. The Contractor shall ensure that all developed applications and modifications to existing Sponsor applications operate in compliance with applicable Sponsor-specific standards. Planned activities shall be coordinated with all stakeholders and approved by the Sponsor.
APPLICATIONS ARCHITECTURE
The Contractor shall:
a. (U) Architect and design the Sponsor’s corporate DevSecOps processes, services and tools that will enable rapid software development and deployment using continuous integration and continuous deployment techniques for Sponsor consideration.
b. (U) Create a plan for applications supported in the CI/CD pipeline, leveraging best of breed available cloud services, scaling, containers, security, micro-service architecture.
c. (U) Continually evaluate the DevSecOps approach with current industry standards focusing on automation, security, and performance.
d. (U) Define and document the DevSecOps process changes, governance, and standards.
e. (U) Assist Sponsors’ identification, evaluation, and adoption of technologies to improve business applications and support operations.
f. (U) Leverage enterprise and open source capabilities such as GitHub, Jenkins, Puppet, and Maven where possible.
g. (U) Define a performance management plan to ensure success.
h. (U) Provide key performance measurements to include items such as defect escape rate, deployment frequency, lead time for changes, and mean time to recovery.
i. (U) Work with Sponsor to communicate DevOps architecture, approach, and roll-out plans.
j. (U) Assist Sponsor to identify, evaluate and adopt technologies to improve business applications and support operations.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
The Contractor Team shall:
a. (U) Implement CI/CD designs for applications being supported in the CI/CD pipeline.
b. (U) Maintain and maintain DevSecOps solutions.
c. (U) Support customer adoption plans of DevSecOps processes and tools.
d. (U) Write software delivery pipelines.
e. (U) Create reusable libraries that can be applied across the Sponsor’s organization.
f. (U) Facilitate implementation of Sponsor’s DevSecOps approach.
g. (U) Support individual team adoption of the Sponsor’s DevSecOps approach.
h. (U) Continually evaluate the DevSecOps approach with current industry standards, with a focus on automation, security, and performance.
i. (U) Define the DevSecOps process changes, governance, and standards.
j. (U) Document the DevSecOps process changes, governance, and standards.
k. (U) Assist Sponsor to identify, evaluate and adopt technologies to improve business applications and support operations.
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION
The Contractor shall:
a. (U) Manage CI/CD system with regular maintenance, troubleshooting, and support services.
b. (U) Facilitate implementation of Sponsor’s DevSecOps approach and support individual team adoption of the customer DevSecOps approach.
c. (U) Maintain DevSecOps solutions and continually evaluate the DevSecOps approach with current industry standards, with a focus on automation, security, and performance.
d. (U) Define the DevSecOps process changes, governance, and standards.
e. (U) Document the DevSecOps process changes, governance, and standards.
f. (U) Assist Sponsor to identify, evaluate and adopt technologies to improve business applications and support operations.
• Vacation – 5 weeks of accrued paid vacation per year (i.e., 8.33 hours accrued per pay period worked)
• Holidays - Paid holidays published annually by the Office of Personnel Management, excluding Inauguration Day
• 100% paid for Health Benefits* (United Healthcare, Guardian Dental, VSP Vision, MetLife, Life and Disability Insurance and annual $1500 employer HSA contribution on qualified plans) *health benefits kick in the 1st of the month following your start date
• 6% 401k Contribution (3% paid out during each pay period, the additional 3% will be paid out as a lump sum in Q1 each year)
• Training Reimbursement – Approved training and education expenses will be reimbursed
• Travel Expenses – Approved travel expenses will be reimbursed *Note – From time to time, the company may change employee benefits.
Salary : $1,500
