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Open Systems Technologies Corporation is looking for a System Engineer Architect to join our team responsible for the integration, operations, and sustainment of various operational and in-development systems.

This client has an exciting opportunity for a System Engineer Architect to lead the modernization of a geospatial product supporting mission critical operations. The candidate will provide leadership to invigorate technical innovation and must be willing to drive smart change to support a collaborative and innovative culture to provide our customer with optimal solutions that meet their strategic goals. A successful candidate will have experience with the Microsoft technology stack, AWS services, and related software and networking design and implementation.

Job Description:

OST is looking to hire a Systems Engineering Architect to support AWS Resiliency and Recovery. The qualified candidate will work hand-in-hand with technical and program management leadership along with various external stakeholders, to help design and implement AWS Resiliency and Recovery capabilities including cross-AZ recovery procedures, infrastructure automation, and automated failover orchestration. This position will require experience across multiple System Engineering and architecture domains with a focus on standing up and maintaining cloud environments, and the deployment of custom code, COTS, and GOTS to those environments with a Geospatial focus.

Responsibilities:

This position involves systems engineering activities that support building and delivering new and innovative systems to implement analytics, exploitation, production and dissemination using web, remote desktop, and cloud technologies.

• Analyze current system(s) architecture as well as service and systems dependencies from a full-stack perspective (Platform, Service, Code and Server) perspective

• Identify and communicate use cases and implementation options where existing system availability and resiliency can be improved

• Improve mission assurance, reduce operational risk, and enhance continuity of operations during AWS infrastructure disruptions.

• Collaborate with other program technical leadership on the system architecture roadmap and backlog aligned to customer's technology strategy and vision.

• Decompose requirements, use cases, and need statements into epics and features with clearly defined acceptance criteria that will be assigned to agile development teams

• Assist in designing and documenting solutions to enhance ICAM service adoption throughout the customer agency

• Execute analysis of alternatives (AoA) and prototypes to determine the design of new system features and capabilities, then author white papers on your findings

• Manage the system requirements and maintain requirements and interface control documents

• Create and communicate design artifacts to the team to ensure applications and services are built to support the business and architecture objectives

• Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies to executive management

  
  Core Qualifications:

• Requires BS degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 + years of prior relevant experience; OR 4 years of experience in lieu of degree

• Must currently possess an active Top Secret security clearance, with ability to obtain SCI and CI Poly

• Experience optimizing and managing AWS/cloud infrastructure cost including storage, compute, and database

• Experience with Windows and Linux

• Direct experience with AWS core architecture and services

• Experience/background knowledge of DevOps COTS capabilities and implementation to Cloud

• Experience with System (hardware, software and networking) Design and Architecture.

• Understanding of agile SW development methodologies

• Experience developing a backlog and technical roadmap

• Experience with disaster recovery (ITDR) and data retention

• Experience as a systems engineer or architect

• Excellent communication skills

• Experience briefing stakeholders at all levels

  
  

  Preferred Qualifications:

• An active TS/SCI with a Polygraph

• DD8570 compliance

• Experience with technologies such as WMS, WFS, KML

• Experience with AWS architecture best practices, resiliency capabilities and services

• Experience with AWS EKS

• Experience writing, maintaining, and describing architecture diagrams

• Experience optimizing Software deployments and reducing downtime, for example implementing a blue/green strategy

• Technical certifications including Microsoft and/or AWS

• Direct experience with DevOps deployments to cloud environments GITLAB

  
  

BENEFITS

Our company OST has been operating since 1996 and have various contracts with Government agencies. We offer a comprehensive benefit package that includes 3 weeks paid time off, 11 Paid Holidays, medical/dental coverage, STD, LTD, Life Insurance, AD&D, 401k with up to 4% match, and end of year profit sharing paid out in 401k.