North Point Technology

Technology

SystemsEngineeringArchitect-AWS/ITInfrastructure

$155–210k ~AI est. Alexandria, Virginia, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Systems Engineering Architect - AWS/IT Infrastructure at North Point Technology. Skills: AWS Architecture, Resiliency, Recovery, Infrastructure Automation. Design AWS Resiliency. Design Recovery capabilities”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

Eligibility Requirements

Top Secret clearance, SCI eligibility, CI Polygraph eligibility

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Active Top Secret clearance, Experience optimizing AWS costs, Hands-on Windows and Linux, Direct AWS core experience, Experience with DevOps COTS, System design and architecture, Solid agile understanding, Experience developing backlog, Experience with disaster recovery, Experience serving as systems engineer, Excellent communication skills, Experience briefing stakeholders

Nice to Have

TS/SCI with Polygraph, DoD 8570-compliant certification, Technical certifications, Experience with WMS, WFS, KML, AWS architecture best practices, Experience with AWS EKS, Writing architecture diagrams, Optimizing software deployments, Direct DevOps deployments to cloud

What You'll Do.

Design AWS Resiliency

Design Recovery capabilities

Implement cross-AZ recovery

Implement infrastructure automation

Implement automated failover orchestration

Stand up cloud environments

Maintain cloud environments

Analyze system architecture

Identify availability improvements

Identify resiliency improvements

Own system architecture roadmap

Own system architecture backlog

Decompose requirements

Execute analysis of alternatives

Maintain requirements

Maintain interface control documents

Communicate architectural decisions

Communicate design artifacts

Communicate strategies

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Technical leadership; Program management leadership; External stakeholders; Development teams; Executive management

Communication Scope

Briefing stakeholders

Process & Methodology

Agile, Backlog development, Technical roadmap

Full Job Description

North Point Technology is looking to hire a Systems Engineering Architect to support AWS Resiliency and Recovery. The qualified candidate must currently hold an active Top Secret security clearance (with the ability to obtain SCI and CI Polygraph), and will work hand-in-hand with technical and program management leadership, along with various external stakeholders, to design and implement AWS Resiliency and Recovery capabilities including cross-AZ recovery procedures, infrastructure automation, and automated failover orchestration. The ideal candidate brings experience across multiple Systems Engineering and architecture domains, with a focus on standing up and maintaining cloud environments and deploying custom code, COTS, and GOTS to those environments with a Geospatial focus. ***This job requires active TS clearance. Please apply only if you have an active TS clearance. *** Responsibilities: This position involves systems engineering activities that support building and delivering innovative cloud-based systems. The architect will analyze current system architecture and dependencies from a full-stack perspective, identify opportunities to improve availability and resiliency, and own the system architecture roadmap and backlog in alignment with the customer's technology strategy. Responsibilities include decomposing requirements into epics and features, executing analysis of alternatives (AoA) and prototypes, maintaining requirements and interface control documents, and communicating architectural decisions, design artifacts, and strategies to both development teams and executive management. Required Skills/Experience: Experience optimizing and managing AWS/cloud infrastructure costs, including storage, compute, and database Hands-on experience with both Windows and Linux Direct experience with AWS core architecture and services Experience with DevOps COTS capabilities and their implementation to the cloud Experience with system (hardware, software, and networking

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