Description

SAIC s National Intelligence Community (NIC) Business Unit, USG Mission and Information Technology Division, provides solutions and services supporting digital modernization programs in areas such as systems engineering, multi-cloud computing, cybersecurity, data science and analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, quantum computing, application development, DevSecOps, cloud network operations, and secure communications.

We are seeking a highly motivated Chief Cloud Architect to join our multi-million dollar National Intelligence program supporting the Cloud Investment Multi-Cloud Management (CIMM) team. As a contributor to the Intelligence Community s first multi-cloud initiative, you will be at the epicenter of emergent cloud computing technologies, establishing a foundation that will evolve to include all agencies within the IC. As a Cloud Architect, you will advise Government IT teams on the design and build of single- or multi-cloud computing architecture solutions that meet mission requirements, and develop future technology and architectural advancements to support the Government s architectural strategy, cloud migration, and continued evolution.

Responsibilities include:

• Advising senior business and technical personnel to aid in the delivery of robust, scalable cloud architectures that meet or exceed mission requirements

• Providing advisory services to maintain and evolve the future-state service provider-authorized, multi-cloud architecture, and knowledge database based on ever-changing IC mission needs and ensuring optimization of cost, consumption, and performance of services are achieved across all Cloud Service Providers (CSPs)

• Serving as a cloud agnostic advocate and helping to educate the Government customer on cloud services appropriate to meet mission requirements

• Supporting the development and maintenance of data models, data dictionaries, data maps, and other architecture artifacts across the enterprise

• Designing all cloud solutions in alignment with applicable policies, standards, and practices

• Providing creative and innovative architectural solutions to ill-defined requirements

• Reviewing and accessing impact of proposed scope changes to future architectures

• May be required to provide cloud agnostic technical guidance in the formulation of customer multi-cloud work statements

Qualifications

Required:

• Active TS/SCI with FSP Polygraph

• Bachelors and eighteen (18) years or more experience; Masters and sixteen (16) years or more experience; PhD or JD and thirteen (13) years or more experience. Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

• Five (5) or more years of experience in a cloud and/or hybrid environment

• Five (5) or more years of demonstrated experience in one or more of the following activities:

  • IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services (e.g., compute, storage, network, security, administration, automation, application services, and databases)

  • Designing and deploying cloud solutions to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM Cloud, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

  • Large-scale data architecture, data modeling, database design, and information systems implementation

• Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in enterprise data strategy, data governance practices, data stewardship principles, data standards, and metadata management best practices

• Ability to translate requirements into end-to-end designs for systems that involve multiple interfaces and support data repositories

• Strong customer service skills, teaming skills, and the ability to collaborate within a cross-functional team, as well as the CSPs (AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and Oracle)

• Certification(s):

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

  • Cloud related (e.g., DevOps, Security, and/or ML)

Desired:

• Certifications in any of the following CSPs:

  • Azure

  • OCI

  • GCP

  • IBM

• Strong analysis and quality assessment skills

• Experience with successful full life cycle cloud development projects

• Experience with various Linux and Microsoft Windows OSs distributions

• Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL) and databases

• Experience migrating both custom built and enterprise apps to and from on-prem to cloud

• Experience debugging performance and technical issues

• Experience building and deploying systems in the cloud using continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) frameworks and infrastructure automation

• Ability to explain technical issues clearly and accurately to both technical and non-technical audiences