Solutions Architect

Job Title: Solutions Architect
Location: Remote
The candidate can be located within 50 miles of any DISA site to include: Montgomery, AL, Oklahoma City, OK, Columbus, OH, Ft. Meade, OH, Mechanicsburg, PA or Huntsville, AL.

Estimated Pay: $75-$85/hour DOE
Clearance: Active Secret

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

• JNCIE Enterprise or Security, CISSP, CCIE Enterprise or Security highly desired
• Associate Cloud Solutions Architect certification desired (AWS/Microsoft preferred)
• Must be eligible to maintain Top Secret security clearance if required

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Serve as the lead technical expert for a program with multiple engineering direct reports, both native and subcontractors
• Responsible for leading and mentoring engineers with a focus on systems engineering, cloud, networking, automation, virtualization, and security technologies and the development of their technical and soft skills
• Ensure consistent engineering standards across high-level and low-level designs, drawings, and other technical documentation
• Manage solution development and deployment adhering to best practices and meeting customer expectations
• Ability to assign team members with verifiable and detailed tasks that culminate in moving engineering processes forward
• Interface with internal and external POCs on technical matters related to the program
• Writing and editing of detailed engineering deliverables in support of program deliverables
• Reviewing current customer environment to ensure delivery of new communications stacks are 100% interoperable and compliant with all DoD IT requirements
• Tackle critical customer escalations as primary technical point of contact for the program
• Actively research, evaluate and drive next-gen networking and security technologies and solutions to solve customer needs
• Develop and deliver technical proposals, whitepapers and slide presentations
• Effectively work independently and in a team environment
• Building and developing relationships with strategic partner community
• Responsible for enablement of sales, delivery team and Iron Bow partners as well as developing collateral as it relates to solutions and offerings within the program cloud marketplace
• Responsible for answering, prioritizing and balancing requests for technical support from multiple customer, partner, and internal stakeholders

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE

• Minimum of 10 – 15 years of focused engineering experience on networking and security technologies and solutions within a DISA environment
• 10+ years of networking and security-related design and deployment experience
• 10+ years of hands-on experience with Juniper Networks design and implementation
• 5+ years of experience working in a highly automated environment and familiar with various concepts and tools that drive network automation
• 5+ years of experience working with F5 BIG-IP load balancing technology
• 5+ years of experience working with public cloud networking and security technologies
• Ability to architect advanced network and solutions at multiple levels of the enterprise including virtualized environments
• Hands-on experience with hybrid cloud architectures, public cloud deployment and operations, technical and security architecture, virtualization, workload assessments, and technical solution architecture
• Experience with diagraming tools such as Visio for demonstrating engineering designs
• Ability to thrive in a self-directed, fast-paced environment, that is highly collaborative and multi-functional
• Deep understanding of the latest technologies, security issues, and protocols
• Minimum Secret security clearance