Platform Solutions Architect - Arcfield

Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

Platform Solutions Architect
The future of world-class mission support and innovative ground system architecture and software is being developed today at Arcfield.  Our group delivers enterprise solutions for data-centric and service-centric capabilities to empower our customer's most important development, test, and operations activities. We need you implement deployment automation, software incident monitoring, testing, and configuration management controls for platform services provider. You will work seamlessly with other government and contractor team members in a challenging work environment.

• Develop platform architecture recommendations to implement current security policies while taking advantage of emerging technologies
• Analyze developer recommendations for software enhancements across cloud, containers, and open-source solutions.
• Assess developer performance by analyzing contract deliverables, program management reviews, architecture designs, and demonstration/tests. 
• Facilitate transfer from a multi-tenant platform environment into a tailorable single-tenant environment
• Institute automation throughout the CI/CD pipeline including build, test, package and deploy
• Optimize pre-increment planning and iterative integration demos and tests via Agile software development best practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Requires 10 to 12 years with BS/BA or 8 to 10 years with MS/MA or 5 to 7 years with PhD
• Possess and maintain TS/SCI with polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or in related technical or scientific fields such as engineering or related STEM program.
• Experience with Enterprise CI/CD tools (GitLab, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, etc)

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working with Developers, DevOps, and Engineering teams in a dynamic environment to promote/implement the DevSecOps program throughout the organization
• Extensive experience with DevSecOps
• Familiarity with RHEL system administration
• Familiarity with virtualization platforms or container technologies
• Experience w/ Git-based development workflows and tools
• Experience or training with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) agile methodologies.

EEO

Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.