Senior Cloud Architect (Top Secret Required)

Title: Senior Cloud Architect
Location: San Antonio, TX (Top Secret required personnel may be remote but may be required to be onsite to access the SCIF facilities in San Antonio up to one week, 2 times per month)
Clearance: Top Secret (SCI eligible)

About this role:

• The Air Force Life Cycle Management/ Unified Platform is responsible for developing and sustaining a cloud-based platform that enables cyber operations across the Department of Defense (DoD). UP provides USCYBERCOM Operational Forces a Joint cyber operations infrastructure enabling full- spectrum cyberspace operations at the operational through tactical levels of warfare as part of USCYBERCOM's Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture (JCWA). Client will be working with UP to provide developer, engineering, and other resources to support the development, deployment, and maintenance of the DevSecOps Platform and Pipeline Services within the Infrastructure Value Stream.

We are seeking professionals with:

• B.S. in Computer Science or Engineering field and 7+ years of experience contributing on a technical team for a software or IT project OR
• B.S. in Information Technology, IT Management, Computer Information Systems and 10+ years of experience contributing on a technical team for a software or IT project.
• Active TS Clearance (SCI eligibility)
• 3+ years providing technical guidance to more junior team members.
• 2+ years leading a technical team on a software or IT project with proven performance.
• DoD 8570/8140 IASAE Level II within 30 days of contract award
• DoD 8570/8140 IASAE Level II within 30 days of start:
  • CASP+ CE
  • CISSP (or Associate)
  • CSSLP
  • CISSP-ISSAP
  • CISSP-ISSEP
  • CCSP

What will make you successful:
We are looking for an Infrastructure as Code SME to work in cooperation with the DSO Platform Product Line Manager, the UP-Infrastructure Lead Engineer, and Pipeline Services to design, develop, and update a DevSecOps via Infrastructure as Code Platform. The IaC SME will execute and ensure development in a consistent manner and provide support to customers to help develop software through CI/CD pipelines and deploy applications to UP hosted platforms.

• 5+ years of experience with: Git
• AWS Console and CLI
• DevOps
• Application containers
• 3+ years of experience with:
• IaaS/PaaS
• Platform Engineering
• Kubernetes
• GitOps
• IaC/CaC CI/CD Pipelines
• Automated testing
• Modern programming Languages such as: Java, C#, Python, Ruby, TypeScript, or Go
• YAML
• General Knowledge of how to use the following technologies to further development of a Platform:

• DoD DevSecOps Reference Architecture
• Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, and Flux
• GitLab Big Bang (Istio, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Prometheus, Kyverno, etc.)
• Custom Helm Charts, Resource Definitions, Controllers, Operators
• SOPS
• DoDPKI, x.509, OIDC, SAML, SSO
• RKE2

Nice to have:

• M.S. in Computer Science or Engineering field and 10+ years of experience contributing on a technical team OR M.S. in IT, ITM, or CIS and 15+ years of experience contributing to on a technical team.
• 5+ years providing technical guidance to more junior team members
• 4+ years leading a technical team on a software or IT project with proven performance
• DoD 8570/8140 IASAE Level II at contract award

Who We Are:

• Client is a software consultancy that builds cloud-native solutions for startups, enterprises, and the public sector.
• We are an energetic, growing consultancy with a passion for solving big problems for both startups and enterprises.
• Each of us enable digital transformation for large organizations through the newest in distributed technologies as we are laser focused on end-to-end application development, DevSecOps, AI/ML and systems architecture and our methodology focuses on cloud-first and cost-effective innovation.
• Our customers hail from a diverse, ever-growing list of industries.

Benefits/Additional Info:
Client embraces and promotes employee development and training and covers the cost of certifications relevant to a position and the technologies/services provided. Fitness/Gym membership eligibility, weekly pay schedule and employee swag, snacks & events are offered as well!

• 401K with 100% matching up to 6%
• Highly competitive PTO
• Great health insurance with large network of providers
• Medical/Dental/Vision
• Life Insurance, and short- & long-term disability
• Industry-Leading Weekly Pay Schedule
• Home office & equipment plan

Pay Range: $160,000 - $200,000

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.