Location State: Virginia
Location City: Chantilly, Herndon, McLean
Security Clearance: TS/SCI + FS Poly
Company Introduction:
United Science & Analytics is an information technology small business supporting national security missions and government transformation for defense and intelligence agency clients. We focus on the science and analytics of cloud computing, big data, and cyber security, as well as providing overall IT infrastructure support and program/project management.
Position Introduction:
United Science & Analytics is seeking a highly talented System Architect to join our team and utilize your experience with cutting edge technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, Packer, and ArgoCD to design a new AWS cloud-based microservices architecture. Your strong communication skills will be leveraged to professionally communicate progress to senior government leadership. You will hold a key position in a great team and find ways to make automation do the heavy lifting, enhance and maintain a Continuous Integration (CI) infrastructure, utilize automated deployment technologies, and design scalable maintenance practices.
Position Description:
- Design, develop, and implement AWS cloud-based applications using a variety of technologies.
- Utilize strong communication skills to communicate (verbal and written) status information to senior government stakeholders.
- Work with cutting edge technologies (Kubernetes, Helm, Packer, ArgoCD).
- Implement CI pipelines for projects and use DevOps principles and practices to get the most out of the tool chain.
- Automate environment deployments into varied and complex environments – using virtual machines, container technology and cloud environments.
- Collaborate with team members from all parts of the development lifecycle, from development to operations to security, solving technical challenges, and providing and receiving guidance and mentorship.
- Design a process to build, automated test, integration, and deployment of software baselines using DevSecOps and CI/CD best practices, including definition of processes, metrics, tools selection and automation.
- Research, Design and develop complex enterprise-level web applications built on relational and unstructured databases.
- Transform complex customer requirements into working, maintainable solutions.
- Utilize open source software development kits and API's to rapidly develop basic application solutions.
- Adapt off-the-shelf solutions to meet government customer needs and requirements.
- Work in a collaborative agile team environment.
Requirements:
- US citizenship.
- Education: Bachelor Degree + 8 years of job related experience.
- AWS experience - EC2, S3, RDS, ElastiCache, Route 53, IAM, CloudFront, CloudWatch, etc.
- Experience leading complex technical projects from design to production.
- Experience with Devops tools, including Jenkins, Gitlab, Nexus, Sonar, Nessus.
- PaaS - Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Kubernetes, etc.
- DevSecOps experience in AWS environments.
- Proficient with scripting languages (Powershell, Bash, Python, JavaScript/ECMA Script, Perl, Ruby, etc.).
- Compiled languages (.NET, Java, PL/SQL).
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
- Strong customer service skills and customer relationship management experience
- Familiarity with Agile software development methodology, processes, and techniques.
- Excellent organization, communication and writing skills, and have the ability to express yourself in technical discussion via strategy, implementation and design of application environments.
Desired:
- Familiarity with some or all of the following: JIRA, Subversion, test automation tools, USG IA development and security standards.
- Successful candidate will be imaginative, responsive and be able to communicate well with users.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
United Science & Analytics is an Equal Opportunity Employer empowering people no matter their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status. We strive to create a diverse, inclusive and respectful work culture that values all.