Systems Engineering Architect - AWS/IT Infrastructure (Top Secret Clearance Required)
About this role
North Point Technology is looking to hire a Systems Engineering Architect to support AWS Resiliency and Recovery. The qualified candidate must currently hold an active Top Secret security clearance (with the ability to obtain SCI and CI Polygraph), and will work hand-in-hand with technical and program management leadership, along with various external stakeholders, to design and implement AWS Resiliency and Recovery capabilities including cross-AZ recovery procedures, infrastructure automation, and automated failover orchestration. The ideal candidate brings experience across multiple Systems Engineering and architecture domains, with a focus on standing up and maintaining cloud environments and deploying custom code, COTS, and GOTS to those environments with a Geospatial focus.
This job requires active TS clearance. Please apply only if you have an active TS clearance.
Responsibilities:
This position involves systems engineering activities that support building and delivering innovative cloud-based systems. The architect will analyze current system architecture and dependencies from a full-stack perspective, identify opportunities to improve availability and resiliency, and own the system architecture roadmap and backlog in alignment with the customer's technology strategy. Responsibilities include decomposing requirements into epics and features, executing analysis of alternatives (AoA) and prototypes, maintaining requirements and interface control documents, and communicating architectural decisions, design artifacts, and strategies to both development teams and executive management.
Required Skills/Experience:
- Experience optimizing and managing AWS/cloud infrastructure costs, including storage, compute, and database
- Hands-on experience with both Windows and Linux
- Direct experience with AWS core architecture and services
- Experience with DevOps COTS capabilities and their implementation to the cloud
- Experience with system (hardware, software, and networking) design and architecture
- Solid understanding of agile software development methodologies
- Experience developing a backlog and technical roadmap
- Experience with disaster recovery (ITDR) and data retention
- Experience serving as a systems engineer or architect
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience briefing stakeholders at all levels
Preferred Skills/Experience:
- Experience with technologies such as WMS, WFS, and KML
- Experience with AWS architecture best practices, resiliency capabilities, and services
- Experience with AWS EKS
- Experience writing, maintaining, and describing architecture diagrams
- Experience optimizing software deployments and reducing downtime, for example implementing a blue/green strategy
- Direct experience with DevOps deployments to cloud environments using GitLab
Qualifications:
- Active Top Secret security clearance, with the ability to obtain SCI and CI Polygraph
- TS/SCI with Polygraph (preferred)
- DoD 8570-compliant certification (preferred)
- Technical certifications such as Microsoft and/or AWS (preferred)
North Point Technology is THE BEST place to work for curious-minded engineers motivated to support our country’s most crucial missions! We focus on long term projects, leveraging the latest technology in support of innovative solutions to solve our customer’s most difficult problems.
At North Point Technology, EMPLOYEES come first! We value our employees by providing excellent compensation, benefits, and a flexible work-life balance. We strive for a close-knit and open atmosphere where the owners are always directly available to our team members.
Come join us! Apply with North Point Technology today!
For positions requiring a federal security clearance, your clearance level must be clearly identified on your resume.
Company at a glance
North Point Technology, LLC, was founded in 2002 by Lisa W. Lee and Robert P. Lee, with a basic mission to provide the highest-quality service possible in systems integration, automation engineering and industrial controls. The firm also offers proprietary software products, which allow our clients to optimize their industrial automation processes and implement the latest in systems engineering solutions at a fraction of the cost and time.
The firm is one of only a few systems integrators in the Northeastern U.S. which holds a Premier level of Certification in Ignition software by Inductive Automation.
We employ a staff of highly specialized engineers with expertise in a wide variety of industries and applications. Our business administration and operations staff have executive level experience with Fortune 500 corporations in high tech manufacturing and engineering. We value and promote hard work, ingenuity, creativity, strong client partnerships, and good business ethics.
North Point Technology is a business member of the Control Systems Integrators Association (CSIA) internationally, The Alliance for Manufacturing & Technology of the Southern Tier( AM&T), as well as The Greater Binghamton and Greater Syracuse Chambers of Commerce. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, a flexible and varied work environment, with challenging opportunities in the field of industrial automation and control systems engineering. We are growing with new office locations to support a diverse client base.
We serve clients across the United States and around the world, including Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, China, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.
*North Point Technology, LLC is categorized as a Women Owned Business Enterprise(WBE) and a Small Business Enterprise.
The company holds WBE Certification with the City of Albany, New York.
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