Enterprise Cloud Technical Specialist

Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference in the government space? What if you could find a position that is tailor made for your mix of development, engineering, and communication skills? That's why we need you, an experienced Senior Cloud Subject Matter Expert, to help us evaluate and guide system architectures as they evolve to commercial trends like Agile development, Cloud migration, and streamlined DevOps deployments. This is an opportunity to build your experience using the latest open source tools, trends, and techniques on technical issues supporting the mission of our Intelligence Community Customer.

Our Chief Architect team is responsible for coordinating and supporting ground requirements, CONOPS, and architectures in the remote sensing domain. This position is for a cloud architect/engineer providing Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) within our Space and Mission Engineering organization. This position requires an understanding of the intelligence community and customer domain, along with a strong focus on core systems engineering processes in support of end-to-end mission and services closure. The candidate will help the customer transition to acquisitions leveraging cloud implementations.

The candidate will develop strategies and transition plans to ensure customer projects comply with government cloud implementation directives, instructions, and guidance. The candidate will provide subject matter expertise and advise program managers on cloud technology specifics, including the implementation of on premise, Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service consumption models. This includes identifying proper infrastructure approaches such as cloud, hybrid, agency unique equipment, or mission unique equipment for mission systems based on performance, cost and other factors. The candidate must be able to articulate implications of each consumption model to include budget forecasting, migration and/or modernization concerns and needs, technology evolution, and overall cloud adoption roadmaps in support of system and acquisition-level ground milestones and integration of new systems and initiatives in support of expanded GEOINT or SIGINT mission capabilities. The selected candidate will have the aptitude to provide cloud training and coaching, track and report on system and enterprise cloud and IC ITE service consumption trends and metrics, capture and make accessible cloud technology lessons learned, and assess processes and make recommendations to improve cloud implementation and cloud use efficiencies. The candidate will propose and coordinate common infrastructure services and may lead projects for systems team work, have frequent client interactions, and support system and mission strategy development across the various ground offices.

The candidate will have daily interaction with the customer and supporting contractors, and will need to follow customer standards and processes as the program matures through the life cycle. Candidate will interact with multiple Acquisition Offices (AOs) and facilitate risk and action closure with Acquisition Offices and users, and support technical consultation, meeting coordination, and support to recommendation briefings.

Requires:

• Experience: BS w/ 10-12 years, MS w/ 8-10 years, or PhD w/ 5-7 years
• Clearance required: Must possess and have the ability to maintain an Active Top Secret / SCI w/Poly Clearance
• BS in engineering, physics or related technical degree
• More than 4 years' experience with cloud architecting and transition solutions
• Experience ensuring software solutions leveraging cloud and container technology are highly available, resilient, and can scale to meet the mission's performance needs
• Experience overseeing software transitions from bare metal (on premise environments) to multiple cloud vendors across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud
• Ability to provide cost analysis and service consumption performance analysis to drive optimization to take advantage of reserved (discounted) images/instances, auto-scaling, and high utilization rates (i.e., less idle resources) and ability to recommend cloud use efficiencies
• Experience developing strategies and cloud implementation roadmaps and transition plans
• Experience identifying system and enterprise cloud and IC ITE service consumption needs and gaps, identifying potential solutions, and assessing/analyzing alternatives
• Experience in defining cloud requirements and assessing developers proposed designs to ensure End to End mission system integration and closure
• Detailed knowledge of customer's mission capabilities (to include GEOINT, SIGINT and Multi-INT domains) and overall space and ground architecture
• Commitment to recognize, understand, respect, and operate effectively within various SETA, FFRDC, and Government lines of authority
• Knowledge of, and experience implementing Amazon AWS and Google Azure services

Strongly Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with direct IC customer, technical familiarity with mission processing or mission control of systems, including technical performance requirements
• Ability to work for direct IC customer and familiarity with that customer's processes and organization.
• Knowledge of SAFe or Agile frameworks
• Experience with DevSecOps and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

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.