Enterprise Architect (Secret, preferred) - remote - Military veterans preferred

General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect with extensive / significant experience in design, development and deployment of virtual environments and who holds active DOD secret clearance. Site location: remote

The position will support a US Air Force program that is playing a major role in strengthening and modernizing America's Strategic Deterrent Force. GDIT will develop and deliver a digital engineering design solution, which enables and integrates the program’s complete set of data, tools, and model-based systems engineering (MBSE) activities, and makes them available to internal and appropriate external engineering and programmatic stakeholders throughout the program’s life-cycle. This effort will culminate in an abstracted, highly transportable environment delivered to the Government, to be instantiated “virtually” on the Government’s network infrastructure, and updated during the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of weapon system development.

For this effort, GDIT will use cloud based concepts including IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service); PaaS (Platform as a Service); and SaaS (Software as a service) and containerization concepts including Terraform and Docker to build-out the DEE. Together, the application of these concepts will result in a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).

GDIT’s Cloud Architect defines and develops the SDDC architecture with infrastructure independence and a high degree of flexibility and modularity to support DEE efforts now and in the future. The Cloud Architect is responsible for developing SDRL - DEE Management Plan, which is a road-map for development, testing, verification, and deployment.

BA/BS 20+ years of experience; Designs and defines Cloud Solutions architecture for new or existing Cloud systems services.  Provides business strategy, solution development and technical guidance to develop business and market solutions that align with cloud service offerings from the cloud service provider.

Required Skills:

• Experience with virtual environments
• Experience with software-defined networking (SDN)
• Experience with software defined storage, including storage virtualization
• Experience with Terraform and Docker Nodes
• Familiarity with swapping technologies within a SDDC using native APIs
• Familiarity with government standards for security, identity, and data management
• Familiarity with modular and open systems architecture principles
• Familiarity with industry established standards for data exchange and interoperability

Desired Skills:

• Experience working in Agile teams
• Active DOD Secret Clearance
• Certification with cloud technologies

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