Expert Cloud Solutions Architect with Security Clearance

Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
LOCATION: This is mostly remote, but if needed to go onsite the location is National Capital Region or St. Louis, MO CITIZENSHIP: U.S. Citizen CLEARANCE LEVEL: ACTIVE TS/SCI RESPONSIBILITIES: work on a team at NGA that engineers and operates DevSecOps pipeline tools and Platform Services running on AWS unclassified as well as AWS on classified domains
supports a variety of projects across the organization sharing the ultimate goal to accelerate the development and authorization of applications for NGA.
Create strategies and high level plans for modernization and management of DevSecOps tools and container platform services
Work with team members to design, architect, and implement solutions across geographic locations
Evangelize methodologies for building and operating highly available, scalable services
Monitor industry trends and suggest architectural improvements
Conduct prototypes and proof of concept projects to enable data-driven decision making and inform technical roadmaps
Create, assess, update, and maintain documentation about Product Lines
Look for opportunities to improve all operations processes
Evaluate, build, and modify automation for deploying and operating production services
Provide leadership in reducing and resolving production incidents (e.g., Site Reliability Engineering)
Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS: Certified AWS Solutions Architect
DoD 8750 Identity Access Manager (IAM) Level 1 certification compliance
Demonstrated understanding of industry standards for building services in IaaS/PaaS/SaaS in Cloud environments
Demonstrated understanding of networking and core Internet protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, and distributed networks)
Understanding of DevSecOps
Knowledge of APIs and RESTful services
Working knowledge of build automation and continuous integration/delivery ecosystem: Git, Maven/Gradle, Docker, Nexus
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelor's Degree or higher, or ten years' experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or other related scientific or technical discipline
Five plus years of experience with AWS cloud services
Ten years' experience finding and fixing critical, customer-facing production issues
Experience with DevSecOps tools and techniques including CI/CD
Experience with Docker to create and manage containers
Experience with enterprise container platforms and orchestration systems
Experience doing agile software development in a team setting
Experience in the development of object-oriented software with languages like Java, C , Python or Ruby In-depth experience with modern container orchestration systems: Kubernetes, Mesos, DC/OS, Swarm
Experience with deploying and management of applications on OpenShift Platform and/or Pivotal Cloud Foundary/Tanzu
Experience with Linux/UNIX systems and the best practices for deploying applications to those stacks
Experience with different databases, including working knowledge of SQL, relational data stores
Experience with infrastructure configuration and automation processes and tools: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Fabric
Experience with security in the cloud: Intrusion, penetration, and vulnerability scanning
Experience with monitoring solutions: ELK, Splunk, SUMO, Nagios, Prometheus Plus3 IT Systems is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact include name and/or department, telephone, and e-mail address . The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. With the continuing impacts of COVID-19 around the world, we are taking action to protect the health and well-being of our colleagues and maintain the safety of the communities where we operate. As a federal contractor, we are required to stay in compliance with Executive Order 14042 with the most up to date information provided at the following link . Pay Transparency Notice: Executive Order 11246 requires government contractors to notify applicants and employees of their rights, subject to certain limitations, to discuss, disclose or inquire about compensation or compensation information. Plus3 IT Systems will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge; (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer; or (c) consistent with Plus3 IT Systems' legal duty to furnish information.