Enterprise Cloud Systems Engineer Tech Specialist

Responsibilities

Arcfield is seeking an Enterprise Cloud Systems Engineer Tech Specialist to serve as a trusted technical advisor to government and contractor stakeholders, leading enterprise and mission cloud architecture development, systems engineering integration, and cloud capability assessments that enable activity-based intelligence through automated and accelerated mission delivery to our Intelligence Community customers.

Responsibilities:

• Develop strategies and transition plans to ensure customer projects comply with government cloud implementation directives, instructions, and guidance.
• Provide subject matter expertise and advise program managers on cloud technology specifics, including the implementation of on premise, Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service consumption models. This includes identifying proper infrastructure approaches such as cloud, hybrid, agency unique equipment, or mission unique equipment for mission systems based on performance, cost and other factors.
• Articulate implications of cloud consumption models to include budget forecasting, migration and/or modernization concerns and needs, technology evolution, and overall cloud adoption roadmaps in support of system and acquisition-level ground milestones and integration of new systems and initiatives in support of expanded GEOINT or SIGINT mission capabilities.
• Provide cloud training and coaching, track and report on system and enterprise cloud and IC ITE service consumption trends and metrics, capture and make accessible cloud technology lessons learned, and assess processes and make recommendations to improve cloud implementation and cloud use efficiencies.
• Propose and coordinate common infrastructure services and lead projects for systems, have frequent client interactions, and support system and mission strategy development across the various ground offices.
• Support customer acquisitions by leveraging cloud services and capabilities to define capability roadmaps in alignment with capability needs.
• Provide subject matter expertise for IC customer senior leadership and their DoW counterparts regarding future GEOINT, SIGINT and Multi-INT cloud architecture requirements and planned mission capabilities.
• Engage in daily interaction with the customer and supporting contractors and follow customer standards and processes as the program matures through the life cycle. 
• Lead technical consultations, IC coordination meetings, and support to recommendation briefings. 

Qualifications

Required:

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph; must be able to maintain the required clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, plus 10–12 years of relevant professional experience; master’s degree plus 8–10 years; or PhD plus 5–7 years.
• More than 4 years’ experience with cloud architecting and transition solutions.
• Experience ensuring software solutions leveraging cloud and container technology are highly available, resilient, and can scale to meet the mission’s performance needs.
• Experience overseeing software transitions from bare metal (on premise environments) to multiple cloud vendors across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud.
• Ability to provide cost analysis and service consumption performance analysis to drive optimization to take advantage of reserved (discounted) images/instances, auto-scaling, and high utilization rates (i.e., less idle resources) and ability to recommend cloud use efficiencies.
• Experience developing strategies and cloud implementation roadmaps and transition plans.
• Experience identifying system and enterprise cloud and IC ITE service consumption needs and gaps, identifying potential solutions, and assessing/analyzing alternatives.
• Experience in defining cloud requirements and assessing developers proposed designs to ensure End to End mission system integration and closure.
• Experience with cloud-based mission architectures, data platforms, AI/ML operations, model assurance, or secure deployment of AI-enabled capabilities.
• Commitment to recognize, understand, respect, and operate effectively within various SETA, FFRDC, and Government lines of authority.
• Knowledge of, and experience implementing Amazon AWS and Google Azure services.

Desired:

• Knowledge of customer's mission capabilities (to include GEOINT, SIGINT, and multi-INT domains) and technical familiarity with mission control and/or processing of one or more GEOINT and/or SIGINT systems, including sensor knowledge.
• Knowledge of, and experience executing, SAFe Agile methodology.
• Prior experience supporting a Chief Architect office, senior government technical leadership organization, SETA, SEIT, or intelligence-community acquisition program.
• Experience with DevSecOps and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Experience supporting space, intelligence, cyber, GEOINT, SIGINT, OPIR, radar, electro-optical, or other high-consequence national-security missions.

Equal Pay Act

This is the projected compensation range for this position. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, Arcfield invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Arcfield ’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections. Min: $135,035.83 Max: $234,801.11
EEO Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.