Software Architect Senior

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, configure, and maintain Elastic Search/OpenSearch environments within AWS cloud infrastructures.
• Design scalable and highly available enterprise search and data indexing solutions.
• Lead cluster configuration, scaling, tuning, monitoring, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery efforts.
• Configure and optimize indexing pipelines, shard management, replication, and cluster performance.
• Monitor system health, troubleshoot production issues, and implement performance improvements across distributed environments.
• Support restoration activities from cluster backups and maintain operational continuity strategies.
• Configure and support AWS services including Application Load Balancers (ALB), EC2, storage, networking, and security services.
• Collaborate with software engineers, cloud teams, and cybersecurity personnel to integrate enterprise applications and data services.
• Develop architecture documentation, technical roadmaps, operational procedures, and system design artifacts.
• Implement security best practices including encryption, authentication, access controls, and compliance requirements.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineering and operations teams.
• Participate in technical reviews, architecture discussions, and customer briefings.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret (TS) security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of overall experience in systems engineering, cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, or enterprise platform administration.
• 5–7 years of hands-on experience with Elastic Search and/or OpenSearch technologies.
• Proven experience standing up, configuring, managing, and optimizing Elastic/OpenSearch clusters in enterprise environments.
• Experience performing backup restoration, monitoring, indexing optimization, and cluster health management.
• Strong experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments.
• Experience configuring and supporting AWS Application Load Balancers (ALB).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, high availability, and scalability principles.
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving complex infrastructure and application issues.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in fast-paced mission environments.