Infrastructure Architect, Cloud

Must be in office in Tysons Corner, VA at least 3 days per week. U.S. Citizenship is required; must be able to obtain a public trust clearance.

About the role

Dev Technology Group is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Architect to support both Operations & Maintenance (O&M) and new development efforts for a federal government client. The ideal candidate will have relevant architecture experience, strong collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills, and an innovative mindset. This is a great opportunity to work on mission-critical systems that provide clear value to end users and our federal government clients.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing cloud resources, determine changes needed to improve system performance, and make recommendations.
• Provide guidance to engineers and developers based on best practices to ensure infrastructure supports fluctuating demands.
• Work with government IT operations and other teams to develop strategies and action plans for implementing upgrades and integrations to program applications.
• Periodic on-call support, shared across engineering team members.
• Maintain and enforce logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, and agile metrics.
• Analyze AWS cloud services to identify defects or suggest improvements to optimize performance.
• Manage AWS resources in FedRAMP-approved GovCloud.
• Engage stakeholders, understand their needs, and translate them into a minimum viable product.
• Provide leadership for strategic planning or complex problem solving, including creation, maintenance, and governance of roadmaps.
• Perform functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships.
• Document performance criteria and testing strategies, quantifying results, trade-offs, and recommendations using a data-driven approach.
• Review design documents to ensure compliance with industry and government standards.
• Present architecture design documents to the client and revise based on feedback to obtain approval.
• Maintain awareness and expertise in the latest cloud, infrastructure, orchestration, and automation visualization technologies.
• Collaborate with specialists to successfully migrate applications and data to the cloud.
• Drive innovation and improve performance of applications in scope.
• Provide recommendations and implement ways to modernize technology to meet business demands cost-effectively.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with eight (8) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment OR no Bachelor’s degree with ten (10) or more years of relevant experience.
• Proficiency designing and implementing Cloud-based AWS solutions.
• Experience managing AWS resources in FedRAMP-approved GovCloud.
• Excellent communication and active listening skills.
• Ability to discuss technical issues with non-technical, executive-level government officials.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to develop solutions for complex business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.
• Experience with DevSecOps pipeline tools including configuration management, requirements (e.g., JIRA), automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of Windows and/or Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration.
• Applying The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) in Agile solution designs to minimize technical debt and improve velocity.
• Writing/maintaining Infrastructure as Code with languages such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Designing logical and network diagrams.
• Outlining evaluation benchmarks for system performance assessments.
• Implementing technical architecture standards based on industry best practices.
• Providing advice to project teams on technical solutions, best practices, and efficiencies.

Benefits

• Generous and flexible time-off policy.
• Flexible work schedules and telework options, including remote work availability for eligible projects.
• Career development opportunities including a mentorship program, technical and management training through Dev University, hands-on learning through DevLab, tuition reimbursement, and paid training opportunities.
• Industry-leading benefits including a choice of two health plans that include dental and vision, flexible spending account, commuter benefits, life insurance, and more.
• 401K matching with a 5% matching contribution.
• Regular team and company social events including an annual party, happy hours, fitness challenges, and more.
• A focus on community engagement including company-wide support activities, employer match for donations, and time off for volunteer efforts.

About the Company

Dev Technology is a growing IT company with an employee-centric culture that works on mission-critical projects for the federal government. We partner with federal customers to deliver technology services and solutions, driving missions forward through innovation. We use Agile and DevSecOps principles to provide services including application development, biometrics and identity management, cloud and infrastructure optimization, IT and legacy modernization, and data management. Dev Technology has been recognized as a Washington Post Top Workplace for thirteen consecutive years, a Top Workplaces USA for the past five years, and a recipient of the Companies As Responsive Employers (CARE) Award for the past six years.