Job Description
Title: Solutions Architect
Location: Washington, DC
Duration: 1 Year+ Contract
Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of enterprise solution architectures that support mission-critical applications and services
- Translate business, functional, and technical requirements into scalable solution designs
- Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and disaster-resilient architectures using data center and cloud best practices
- Evaluate existing infrastructure and recommend modernization strategies
- Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform
- Architect data center and cloud containerized solutions utilizing VMware VKS, RedHat OpenShift, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Lambda, and related AWS services
- Design and support GitLab DevSecOps pipelines and CI/CD tools
- Optimize proposed technology solutions for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Lead architecture reviews, technical assessments, and design validation activities
- Develop technical documentation including architecture diagrams, interface specifications, design documents, and implementation plans
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers, developers, and infrastructure teams
- Support Authority to Operate (ATO) efforts, continuous monitoring, and security assessments
- Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders to estimate technical effort, identify risks, and develop implementation strategies
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate
Candidate Capability and Experience Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science/Information Management Systems, or equivalent level technical experience
- 5+ years performing Solutions Architecture activities
- 5+ years developing business, application, and technology architecture
- Demonstrated expertise in data center technologies as well as cloud solutioning
Cloud Operations:
- AWS and Azure experience in multiple accounts/subscriptions environment
- Experience provisioning and managing cloud services (e.g. compute, storage, networking, security, databases) in an enterprise environment
- Cloud networking (e.g. VPC, firewall, security groups, VPN, hybrid cloud Direct Connect/Express Route)
- Cloud resource management automation
DevSecOps:
- Demonstrated experience developing with modern application programming frameworks
- Demonstrated experience containerizing applications
- Demonstrated experience managing GitLab pipelines
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and best practices
- Experience writing Terraform HCL infrastructure code
- Git Version Control in DevOps: Git best practices, branching, tagging, release management, etc.
Containers/Kubernetes:
- Demonstrated experience deploying to AWS and Azure Kubernetes environments
- Demonstrated experience with datacenter Kubernetes platforms such as VMware VKS and RedHat OpenShift
- Demonstrated experience developing Dockerfiles and Helm charts
- 5+ years system engineering/administration with Linux and Windows systems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineering teams and influence technical decision-making
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with elected officials, senior staff, information systems professionals, and non-technical users
- Security: Ability to obtain Public Trust required
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