What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Architect position at Arcfield?
Overview
Arcfield is a leading provider of full lifecycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. The company has more than 60 years of proven experience providing advanced engineering and analysis, IT and C5ISR capabilities to support our nation’s most critical national security missions. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA and with 16 offices around the world, Arcfield employs approximately 1,200 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals who put our customers’ missions first, helping them solve their most complex challenges through innovations in modeling, simulation and analysis, digital transformation and C5ISR. Visit arcfield.com for more details.
Responsibilities
Considered a recognized authority within the company. Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative. Determines and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results. Bachelor's (or equivalent) with 10 - 12 years of experience or a Master's with 8 - 10 years of experience. Alternate Job Titles: Customer Solutions Architect, Information Systems Architect, Infrastructure System Architect, Solution Architect
The Cloud Architect will support the Sponsor in analyzing, evaluating, integrating, and managing cloud-based systems for the Sponsor and perform the following activities:
- Design, deliver optimized network infrastructure for performance and resilience
- Provide Cloud Engineering expertise to design and deliver complete mission systems (infrastructure/platform/applications/process) solutions within the cloud
- Provide guidance and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies
- Establish applications, environment uptime, and utilization scaling parameters and metrics, by which monitoring, and enhancements can be instrumented and reported
- Establish standard policy and compliance metrics by which cloud environment operations will be monitored, corrective responses issued, and reported
- Establish performance and cybersecurity monitoring framework, perform Continuous Monitoring, and report for corrective actions
- Establish and apply Zero Trust Architectures (ZTA) build and sustainment standards; Deliver information papers proposing emergent cloud-based technology and best practices applicable to Sponsor's mission domain, per government established periodicity; and
- Establish methods of risk identification and tracking depicting the hosting environment infrastructure and the hosted applications, being visible to the Sponsor, and updated per government periodicity.
Qualifications
Required:
- Must Possess and Maintain TS/SCI with Poly
- Knowledge and experience with the various cloud provides Microsoft (Azure), AWS, Oracle, IBM, Google, etc
- BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7
Desired:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
EEO Statement
EEO
Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.
