Cloud Architect Senior-Chief Engineer

Strategic ACI is seeking a Senior Level-Cloud Architect/Chief Engineer to work on a team supporting Department of Defense (DOD), Headquarters United States Air Force, and contract operations. The position will provide direct cloud engineering support to the Air Force acquisition community throughout the system development lifecycle (SDLC).

Responsibilities:

• Provide cybersecurity and architecture expertise for a modern cloud computing environment
• Build new cloud-based environments for DoD cloud initiatives
• Guide legacy systems migration to a modern platform and assisting with the adoption
• Design enterprise and systems security throughout the development life cycle; translate technology and environmental conditions into security designs and processes
• Design and develop security requirements that mitigate risk while maintaining operational capability
• Verify architecture against program requirements and goals. This includes participating in technical discussions, trade studies and working groups, and conducting research on industry best practices for potential implementation
• Interface with program managers to explain security goals and mitigations relative to their priorities of cost and schedule

• Current TS (SCI & SAP eligibility required); an active TS/SCI clearance is desired. Subject to a Counterintelligence (CI) polygraph
• U.S. Citizenship is required for this position
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related engineering discipline
• 10+ years of Technical Architect and Team Leadership experience
• Big Data (e.g., Hadoop, NiFi, Spark, PySpark, Dask, etc.)
• Experience in application migration
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Google Professional Cloud Architect
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Red Hat Certified Architect

• Master's degree in related discipline desired