Overview What do you get when you bring together a team of bright individuals and place them into an environment where “work” means making a difference in the lives of people across the globe? You get Sciolex Corporation, a fast-growing defense contractor focused on providing the U.S. Government a level of service that surpasses the epitome of excellence. Our core services include systems engineering technical advice, technical support, and administrative assistance. From our humble beginning as a small Service Disabled, Veteran Owned Small Business in Chantilly, VA, Sciolex Corporation is now the home for over 1,000 employees across the U.S. Over the past 18 years, Sciolex Corporation has constructed an environment that celebrates diversity and encourages a positive work/life balance, all while supporting government missions that our employees are proud to be a part of. When you work for Sciolex Corporation, you are working for a stable company that values you and is committed to ensuring you receive the utmost employee care. Responsibilities We are seeking a highly motivated Cloud Architect to join our multi-million dollar National Intelligence program supporting the Cloud Investment Multi-Cloud Management (CIMM) team. As a contributor to the Intelligence Community’s first multi-cloud initiative, you will be at the epicenter of emergent cloud computing technologies, establishing a foundation that will evolve to include all agencies within the IC. As a Cloud Architect, you will advise Government IT teams on the design and build of single- or multi-cloud computing architecture solutions that meet mission requirements, and develop future technology and architectural advancements to support the Government’s architectural strategy, cloud migration, and continued evolution. + Advising senior business and technical personnel to aid in the delivery of robust, scalable cloud architectures that meet or exceed mission requirements + Serving as a cloud agnostic advocate and helping to educate the Government customer on cloud services appropriate to meet mission requirements + Providing advisory services to maintain and evolve the future-state service provider-authorized, multi-cloud architecture, and knowledge database based on ever-changing IC mission needs and ensuring optimization of cost, consumption, and performance of services are achieved across all Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) + Developing a baseline multi-cloud architecture methodology and framework for implementation within the C2E multi-cloud ecosystem + Supporting the development and maintenance of data models, data dictionaries, data maps, and other architecture artifacts across the enterprise + Designing all cloud solutions in alignment with applicable policies, standards, and practices + Providing creative and innovative architectural solutions to ill-defined requirements + Reviewing and accessing impact of proposed scope changes to future architectures + May be required to provide cloud agnostic technical guidance in the formulation of customer multi-cloud work statements Qualifications & Physical Requirements Required: + Active TS/SCI with Polygraph + Bachelors degree + Five (5) or more years of experience in a cloud and/or hybrid environment + Five (5) or more years of demonstrated experience in one or more of the following activities: + IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services (e.g., compute, storage, network, security, administration, automation, application services, and databases) + Designing and deploying cloud solutions to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM Cloud, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) + Large-scale data architecture, data modeling, database design, and information systems implementation + Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in enterprise data strategy, data governance practices, data stewardship principles, data standards, and metadata management best practices + Ability to translate requirements into end-to-end designs for systems that involve multiple interfaces and support data repositories + Strong customer service skills, teaming skills, and the ability to collaborate within a cross-functional team, as well as the CSPs (AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and Oracle) + Certifications in any of the following CSPs: Azure, OCI, GCP, IBM and AWS Desired: + Strong analysis and quality assessment skills + Experience with successful full life cycle cloud development projects + Experience with various Linux and Microsoft Windows OSs distributions + Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL) and databases + Experience migrating both custom built and enterprise apps to and from on-prem to cloud + Experience debugging performance and technical issues + Experience building and deploying systems in the cloud using continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) frameworks and infrastructure automation + Ability to explain technical issues clearly and accurately to both technical and non-technical audiences Job LocationsUS-VA-Chantilly ID 2024-2042 Category Engineering Position Type Regular Full-Time