Solutions Architect with Security Clearance - Fairfax, VA, United States - steampunk

Description

Overview Steampunk is supporting a government customer that is organized into agile teams working to develop integrated solutions using the Agile/SAFe Framework
Serve as the technical lead and Solution Architect for a large software development program using Agile, DevSecOps and Human-Centered Design to build intuitive, simple systems
The current technology stack includes front-end web interfaces, web services, server-side business logic batch jobs such as extract-transform-load (ETL), and database backends
Contributions

• Leverage experience developing software solutions to architect systems using microservice development techniques, containers, domain-driven design patterns to design and build complex software systems
• Leverage DevSecOps techniques to create resiliency, improve efficiency, reliability, and security of the mission
• Support systems architecture development and integration, script development, integrated logistics support, configuration management, systems and mission engineering, and life cycle management
• Demonstrate expertise in Cloud architectural constructs as well as Cloud-specific technologies and services using knowledge of Cloud APIs to establish and maintain Cloud environments programmatically is preferred
• Assist the program manager as the lead technical engineer for the program and engage with multiple functional groups (and other contractors) to comprehend challenges and prototype new ideas Qualifications
• Must be US Citizen
• Ability to obtain a security clearance
• BA or BS Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field required
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail
• Organizational skills
• 8+ years of experience with software development, software architecture, APIs, and microservices
• 8+ years of experience with build, deployment, and release automation and orchestration
• 8+ years of experience with supporting enterprise Cloud applications or infrastructure
• 8+ years of experience with database engineering, and manipulating relational and NOSQL databases
• 8+ years of experience with infrastructure as code environments, including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing, such as CI/CD
• 8+ years of experience with automating tests for determining quality, security, performance and usability of a system.
• Experience with multiple back-end and front-end languages (e.g

C, C#, Java, Python, Ruby on Rails) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g
Angular, React, )

• Experience with automation tools, including Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
• Experience with containerization technologies such as OpenShift, EKS, and Docker
• Experience writing and evaluating user stories, acceptance criteria, and pull-requests
• Experience working in HCD, Agile and DevSecOps environments About steampunk Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors

Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges
As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers - and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth
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We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law
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