Leads the design, implementation, migration, integration, security, testing, and operation of complex AWS cloud environments. Provides strategic technical leadership for scalable, resilient infrastructure supporting enterprise data platforms, analytics, and AI/ML workloads. Advises on cloud services, virtualization, automation, networking, security, and capacity planning while ensuring compliance with DoD cloud policies. Collaborates with engineering, data, and government stakeholders and troubleshoots complex environment issues.
SAIC is seeking a Senior Principal Cloud Architect in San Diego, CA. The successful candidate initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project’s inception to conclusion for complex programs. Provides strategic advice, technical guidance and expertise to program and project staff. Provides detailed analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission critical challenges/issues.
This is a remote role in San Diego, CA but must be local to area due to onsite needs, up to 10% of travel involved in this role.
JOB DUTIES:
- Providing technical leadership and hands-on development and implementation of commercial cloud solution architectures that modernize the way our customers architect, deploy, and use cloud technology, focusing on security, scalability, and resiliency
- Planning, designing, and managing the migration, re-platforming, integration, implementation and operation of complex cloud environments
- Communicating, defining, administering, and implementing various security processes and assist with the transformation of platforms
- Ensuring commercial cloud service offerings (CSO) adhere to DoD Cloud Computing policy/guidelines
- Providing specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, cloud service provider selection, implementation techniques, application data migration techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements
- Developing and conducting testing of cloud and virtualization systems
- Maintaining technical expertise relevant industry standards and in cloud computing and virtualization technologies such as cloud service provider architecture, design, and configuration; cloud deployment models including public, community, private, and hybrid; cloud service delivery models including infrastructure-, platform-, and software-as-a-service; automation; hypervisors; containers; virtual compute, storage, and networks; virtual infrastructure management; self-provisioning; and scaling
- Evaluating and reporting on new cloud and virtualization technologies to enhance capabilities of cloud-based and virtualized services
- Participating with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives
- Design and implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure that supports enterprise data platforms, shared data services, analytics workloads, and AI/ML development environments
- Collaborate with software engineering, data engineering, and data science teams to ensure cloud architectures align with enterprise data strategy, governance, security, and operational requirements
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Must be able to obtain an Interim Secret Clearance to start
- Must be able to obtain a Secret Clearance after start
- Process requirements from government customer, prioritize taskings and work based on government direction and timelines
- Proven track record of work experience as a cloud architect, designing and deploying cloud solutions
- Expertise in Active Directory design and maintenance
- In-depth understanding of, and experience as a cloud engineer with AWS, Networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS
- Demonstrated experience in one or more following activities: - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Services (compute, storage, network, security, administration, automation, application services, databases)
- Ability to utilize a variety of tools like Git, YML, and AWS security capabilities (WAF, GuardDuty, Security Groups, IAM, etc.)
- Knowledge of an IT Service Management (ITSM) tool suite
- Experience with AWS Workspaces or experience deploying VDI solutions to AWS Cloud
- Configuration and change management experience working directly with/for a Government customer
- In depth troubleshooting experience with the ability to tackle the toughest environment issues
- Experience with how to write SSM documents in JSON/YAML
- Experience with how to write/test/deploy new or existing CloudFormation templates
- Understand enterprise Data Architectures, Data Engineering, Analytics, and AI enablement principles, and the ability to collaborate closely with the stakeholders including Data Architects, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists to design and support cloud platforms that enable scalable data pipelines, advanced analytics, and AI capabilities
DESIRED SKILLS:
- Master's Degree and 10 or more years of experience
- AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Professional Certification
- Fluent with multiple scripting languages
- AWS networking experience including AWS site to site VPNs, Transit Gateway and Direct connect
- Knowledge of routing using BGP in a DoD environment
- Familiarity with DNS in an AWS govcloud environment using Route53, knowledge of DISA Iodyn is a plus
- Proficiencies with DevOps tools (Docker/Kubernetes/Harbor/ECS/EKS/Fargate/Gitlab-ci/Artifactory)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies and associated tools
- Demonstrated expertise in creating and executing CI/CD pipelines
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