Senior Cloud Architect
Company: Leidos
Location: Denver
Posted on: April 17, 2024
Job Description:
Description Leidos is seeking a searching for a Senior Cloud
Architect to provide the United States Space Force (USSF) Systems
Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) for the Digital
Bloodhound program. The position will provide direct cloud
architect and engineering support to the USSF/SSC's SZYO/Defense
Cyber Operations-Space (DCO-S) organization to drive data-informed
decisions at speed, maximizing the Service's flexibility and
efficiency in delivering cybersecurity capabilities to protect the
USSF's Operational Enterprise. The successful candidate will
possess a strategic mindset, excellent communication skills, and
the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Primary Responsibilities
- Study, analyze, recommend, and ultimately design and build new
hybrid cloud-based environment(s) for DCO-S cloud initiatives,
ensuring that critical applications are designed and optimized for
high availability and disaster recovery.
- Integrate capabilities and models into the new cloud-based
environment.
- Define requirements for the DCO-S throughout the software
development lifecycle (SDLC) to include integrating, upgrading, and
sustaining the hybrid cloud-based environment.
- Back decisions with research and the "why/so what", and
articulate options, pros and cons for each recommendation.
- Develop solutions architectures and evaluate architectural
alternatives for hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and
other cloud services.
- Guide the migration of legacy systems to a modern cloud
platform solution and assist with the adoption into the DCO-S
solution.
- Design enterprise and systems security throughout the cloud
development life cycle; translate technology and environmental
conditions into security designs and processes.
- Design and develop security requirements that mitigates risk
while maintaining a cyber security operational capability across
the USSF enterprise.
- Maintain overall knowledge of, stay up to date with, and
research industry best practices, trends, and emerging
technologies, evaluating their potential impact on the DCO-S
software development strategies and possible implementation.
- Verify architecture against DCO-S program requirements and
goals. This includes participating in technical discussions, trade
studies and working groups.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product
management, UX/UI designers, and quality assurance, to define and
deliver software solutions that meet DCO-S requirements and
customer needs.
- Interface with USSF Test Enterprise leadership, and training
and program managers to explain security goals and mitigations
relative to their priorities of cost, schedule and
performance.
- Provide regular updates, reports, and presentations on DCO-S
software development progress, achievements, and challenges to
stakeholders and senior management.
- Establish and enforce quality assurance protocols to guarantee
the provision of dependable, secure, and regulation-compliant
software solutions.
- Champion process automation to reduce manual steps and improve
reusability of solutions.
- Utilize cloud services and technologies to architect and
develop scalable and reliable software solutions.Basic
Qualifications
- Minimum of 14 years of relevant technical architect and team
leadership experience in designing large and complex IT operations
in large organizations or a research environment for government
and/or private industry.
- Demonstratable knowledge of cloud architecture and
implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization,
orchestration, elastic scalability).
- Experience developing briefings and presenting analysis results
to high-level stakeholders to help them in their decision-making
processes.
- Capability to assume a leadership role during system
requirements reviews, design reviews and other types of technical
meetings.
- Demonstratable knowledge of DevOps tool chains and
processes.
- Experience with Big Data (e.g., Hadoop, NiFi, Spark, PySpark,
Dask, etc.).
- Experience in application migration.
- Agile development experience.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
Software Engineering, or related STEM or engineering discipline
required.Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on-site in a government client
environment.
- Familiarity with security procedures while working in a
SCIF/SAPF environment.
- Cloud Security Implementation experience.
- Experience with DoD Acquisition Lifecycle and/or Rapid
Acquisition / Rapid Delivery.
- Familiarity with security procedures while working in a
SCIF/SAPF environment.
- Azure Solutions, Google Professional Cloud, AWS Certified
Solutions, and/or Red Hat Certified Architect.Original Posting
Date:2024-04-08While subject to change based on business needs,
Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain
open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no
earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed
above.Pay Range:Pay Range $101,400.00 - $183,300.00The Leidos pay
range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a
guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered
in extending an offer include (but are not limited to)
responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge,
skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with
market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other
law.
Keywords: Leidos, Aurora , Senior Cloud Architect, Professions , Denver, Colorado
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