Open Systems Technologies Corporation is looking for a System Engineer Architect to join our team responsible for the integration, operations, and sustainment of various operational and in-development systems.
This client has an exciting opportunity for a System Engineer Architect to lead the modernization of a geospatial product supporting mission critical operations. The candidate will provide leadership to invigorate technical innovation and must be willing to drive smart change to support a collaborative and innovative culture to provide our customer with optimal solutions that meet their strategic goals. A successful candidate will have experience with the Microsoft technology stack, AWS services, and related software and networking design and implementation.
Job Description:
OST is looking to hire a Systems Engineering Architect to support AWS Resiliency and Recovery. The qualified candidate will work hand-in-hand with technical and program management leadership along with various external stakeholders, to help design and implement AWS Resiliency and Recovery capabilities including cross-AZ recovery procedures, infrastructure automation, and automated failover orchestration. This position will require experience across multiple System Engineering and architecture domains with a focus on standing up and maintaining cloud environments, and the deployment of custom code, COTS, and GOTS to those environments with a Geospatial focus.
Responsibilities:
This position involves systems engineering activities that support building and delivering new and innovative systems to implement analytics, exploitation, production and dissemination using web, remote desktop, and cloud technologies.
- Analyze current system(s) architecture as well as service and systems dependencies from a full-stack perspective (Platform, Service, Code and Server) perspective
- Identify and communicate use cases and implementation options where existing system availability and resiliency can be improved
- Improve mission assurance, reduce operational risk, and enhance continuity of operations during AWS infrastructure disruptions.
- Collaborate with other program technical leadership on the system architecture roadmap and backlog aligned to customer’s technology strategy and vision.
- Decompose requirements, use cases, and need statements into epics and features with clearly defined acceptance criteria that will be assigned to agile development teams
- Assist in designing and documenting solutions to enhance ICAM service adoption throughout the customer agency
- Execute analysis of alternatives (AoA) and prototypes to determine the design of new system features and capabilities, then author white papers on your findings
- Manage the system requirements and maintain requirements and interface control documents
- Create and communicate design artifacts to the team to ensure applications and services are built to support the business and architecture objectives
- Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies to executive management
Core Qualifications:
- Requires BS degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 + years of prior relevant experience; OR 4 years of experience in lieu of degree
- Must currently possess an active Top Secret security clearance, with ability to obtain SCI and CI Poly
- Experience optimizing and managing AWS/cloud infrastructure cost including storage, compute, and database
- Experience with Windows and Linux
- Direct experience with AWS core architecture and services
- Experience/background knowledge of DevOps COTS capabilities and implementation to Cloud
- Experience with System (hardware, software and networking) Design and Architecture.
- Understanding of agile SW development methodologies
- Experience developing a backlog and technical roadmap
- Experience with disaster recovery (ITDR) and data retention
- Experience as a systems engineer or architect
- Excellent communication skills
- An active TS/SCI with a Polygraph
- Experience with technologies such as WMS, WFS, KML
- Experience with AWS architecture best practices, resiliency capabilities and services
- Experience writing, maintaining, and describing architecture diagrams
- Experience optimizing Software deployments and reducing downtime, for example implementing a blue/green strategy
- Technical certifications including Microsoft and/or AWS
- Direct experience with DevOps deployments to cloud environments GITLAB
BENEFITS
Our company OST has been operating since 1996 and have various contracts with Government agencies. We offer a comprehensive benefit package that includes 3 weeks paid time off, 11 Paid Holidays, medical/dental coverage, STD, LTD, Life Insurance, AD&D, 401k with up to 4% match, and end of year profit sharing paid out in 401k.