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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

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