Cloud Architect SETA

Job description

**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 **Cloud Architect** **SETA** 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 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

REQNUMBER: 2508765
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets.

Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training.

We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity.

Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion.

For more information, visit saic.com.

For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

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