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The Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State University · 1 month ago

Cloud Technology Advancement Solutions Architect

University Park, PA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$109K/yr - $191K/yr

5+ years exp

The Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State University is seeking experienced Solution Architects to support Cloud Technology Advancement and Technology Adoption research for the DoD and other communities. The role involves technical leadership, system design, and implementation of complex cloud-based architectures, as well as fostering customer relationships to understand and meet their needs.

Universities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for technical leadership, system design, and implementation of complex cloud-based system architectures for national critical systems

You will be a key decision maker in defining "how" a system will be implemented to meet its requirements using cloud technologies

This responsibility is expected to evolve over the course of a program and includes fostering customer intimacy to ensure full understanding of the customer's needs and then working with the chief engineer to realize that vision

You will be joining our team of distributed engineers to help shape the development and delivery of custom applications and advanced R&D solutions for our customers

You will in conjunction with a geographically diverse team to deliver solutions in an agile-like manner

Qualification

Solutions architectureCloud technologiesSecurity conceptsCloud Native PlatformDevSecOpsCI/CDAgile ManagementActive DoD TS/SCI clearanceDoD 8140 / 8570 IAT IIMotivated team memberAccountabilityInterpersonal skillsAttention to detailOrganizational skillsResponsibility

Required

Bachelor's degree or higher in an Engineering or Science discipline or higher plus five years of related experience

Direct experience in solutions / enterprise architecture for the DoD, 4th estate, and IC partners (e.g. SAFe Agile Architectures, DoDAF, Disciplined Agile Design)

Broad knowledge of cloud technologies and solutions, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and the ability to leverage that knowledge in technical implementation projects

A strong understanding of security concepts, best practices and how to apply them, such as Secure Shell, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates, TLS, and data encryption to include Department of Defense and Intelligence Community security policies/processes

Skilled in Cloud Native Platform management e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, and micro services architecture

Experienced in Legacy Platform management e.g. WSUS, YUM, SCCM

Broad knowledge of cloud technologies and solutions, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and the ability to leverage that knowledge high & low-level strategy discussions

Ability to dynamically prioritize tasks and represent successful completion of work in Agile Management systems (e.g. Jira, Confluence, GitLab, Azure)

Highly motivated and internally motivated agile team member

Excellent interpersonal skills under pressure

Organized with attention to detail and accuracy

Active DoD TS/SCI clearance

Minimum DoD 8140 / 8570 IAT II Baseline Certification (e.g. Security+ce, GSEC, SSCP)

DoD 8570 IAT II ‘Computing Environment' training or certification (Windows 10, Red Hat 8.x, Dell OS10, PAN-OS, Rancher, GitLab, Puppet etc.)

Preferred

Experience with Rapid Prototype - Technology Readiness Level (TRL) advancement

Enabling prototype and application operations via designing / implementing secure process automation

Deploying Solutions in an Internet Disconnected environment or Dark Cloud

Experience automating DevSecOps across multiple disconnected environments

Managing solution success, source code, dependencies, and artifacts with GitLab Ultimate in internet restricted environments

Developing CI/CD solutions and deploying across multi classification DevSecOps

Establishing provisioning tools including Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, or related frameworks

Advanced understanding of CNCF Kubernetes solutions e.g. Rancher Federal & RKE2

Direct experience designing and deploying highly available/fault tolerant solutions

Direct Software Development experience in Python, Java, C

Cloud networking deployment (e.g. Software defined networking, Ingress, Egress, Service Meshes

Ability to take responsibility and accountability of program outcomes

Solution & Systems architecture design, discovery, and validation

For Higher Levels 3/4: Worked for or around General Officers, SES, or Presidential appointees

US Military Veterans & US Military Reservists

Active DoD TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph

For higher levels 3/4: DoD 8140 / 8570 IAT III or IASAE II Baseline (CISSP / CASP) and Computing Cloud Related Environment certification (Azure, AWS, CNCF, Rancher, VMware)