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in order to get the best possible results. On behalf of
our client, we are excited to present the following
confidential role. We look forward to hearing from you and
discussing the opportunity!
**Our client offers a hybrid work schedule with 2-3 days a week in office.
The Role:
Our client is seeking a Software Enterprise Architect with a DoD TS/SCI clearance to specialize in the design and construction of a PaaS solution. Responsibilities include working with a team on the design and the development of requirements into a working and maintainable solution. The chosen candidate will apply technical proficiency across various stages of our development life cycle, and work closely with stakeholders to prioritize and scope tasks. The chosen candidate will be instrumental in setting our direction and strategy for product and infrastructure development.
Essential Functions
Work closely with cross-functional team members to develop performance requirements, collaborate, and lead the overall design of the system
Interfacing and coordinating across engineering disciplines, project engineering and program management
Overseeing formal design and test reviews, presenting technical briefings, and reporting project status
Support and participate in all phases of the development life cycle including requirements analysis, design, implementation, integration, testing and deployment
Develop test plans, procedures, and other relevant technical documentation
Utilize modeling tools, conduct experimental tests, prototype, and evaluate results
Participate in peer reviews, identify, track and repair infrastructure-related defects/issues
Requirements
Active DoD TS-SCI clearance
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
3 or more years of experience designing/building container-based microservice solutions
Virtualization experience (e.g., ESXi)
PaaS experience (e.g., leveraging OpenShift)
Preferred: designed and built 2 separate IaaS/PaaS-based solutions over the past 5 years.
Networking experience - Understanding of DNS (e.g., bind, dnsmasq or similar), load-balancing and a demonstrated ability to configure and maintain a network infrastructure
Preferred Additional Skills
If you have experience architecting and building solutions with the technologies listed below, we would love to hear from you:
Webserver configuration (e.g., Apache)
GIS experience (e.g., PostGIS, Geoserver)
Log management (e.g., FluentD, ELK)
Service Mesh (e.g., Istio)
Relational DBs (e.g., Oracle)
Non-relational DBs (e.g., MongoDB, Casandra)
API Gateways (e.g., Kong, NGINX Plus)
Message brokers (e.g., ActiveMQ, NATS, Kafka)
Cyber security (e.g., ArcSight, SPLUNK Core)
Data Analytics (e.g., Oracle Analytics, Golthem)
Identity and Access Management (e.g., OpenAM)
Secrets vault (e.g., Vault)
Network management (e.g., NSX)
Application performance monitoring and management (e.g., Prometheus)