Cloud Technology Advancement Solutions Architect

1 day ago

State College, Pennsylvania, United States Penn State University Full time
Job Description and Position Requirements

The Cloud Technology Advancement Department within the Cyber, Modeling and Simulation (CMS) Division of the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State University is seeking a highly motivated and technically sound Cloud Solutions Architect to join our team located in State College, PA.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide technical leadership and system design for complex cloud-based system architectures for national critical systems.
  • Be a key decision maker in defining how a system will be implemented to meet its requirements using cloud technologies.
  • Foster customer intimacy to ensure full understanding of the customer's needs and work with the chief engineer to realize that vision.
  • Join our team of distributed engineers to help shape the development and delivery of custom applications and advanced R&D solutions for our customers.
  • Work with a geographically diverse team to deliver solutions in an agile-like manner.
Required Skills and Experience
  • Direct experience in solutions/enterprise architecture for the DoD, 4th estate, and IC partners.
  • Broad knowledge of cloud technologies and solutions, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and the ability to leverage that knowledge in technical implementation projects.
  • A strong understanding of security concepts, best practices, and how to apply them, such as Secure Shell, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates, TLS, and data encryption to include Department of Defense and Intelligence Community security policies/processes.
  • Skilled in Cloud Native Platform management, e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices architecture.
  • Experienced in Legacy Platform management, e.g., WSUS, YUM, SCCM.
  • Broad knowledge of cloud technologies and solutions, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and the ability to leverage that knowledge in high-level strategy discussions.
  • Ability to dynamically prioritize tasks and represent successful completion of work in Agile Management systems, e.g., Jira, Confluence, GitLab, Azure.
  • Highly motivated and internally motivated agile team member.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills under pressure.
  • Organized with attention to detail and accuracy.
  • Active DoD TS/SCI clearance.
  • Minimum DoD 8140/8570 IAT II Baseline Certification, e.g., Security+ce, GSEC, SSCP.
  • DoD 8570 IAT II 'Computing Environment' training or certification, e.g., Windows 10, Red Hat 8.x, Dell OS10, PAN-OS, Rancher, GitLab, Puppet, etc.
Preferred Skills and Experience
  • Experience with Rapid Prototype - Technology Readiness Level (TRL) advancement.
  • Enabling prototype and application operations via designing/implementing secure process automation.
  • Deploying Solutions in an Internet Disconnected environment or Dark Cloud.
  • Experience automating DevSecOps across multiple disconnected environments.
  • Managing solution success, source code, dependencies, and artifacts with GitLab Ultimate in internet restricted environments.
  • Developing CI/CD solutions and deploying across multi-classification DevSecOps.
  • Establishing provisioning tools, including Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, or related frameworks.
  • Advanced understanding of CNCF Kubernetes solutions, e.g., Rancher Federal & RKE2.
  • Direct experience designing and deploying highly available/fault-tolerant solutions.
  • Direct Software Development experience in Python, Java, C.
  • Cloud networking deployment, e.g., Software-defined networking, Ingress, Egress, Service Meshes.
  • Ability to take responsibility and accountability of program outcomes.
  • Solution & Systems architecture design, discovery, and validation.
  • For Higher Levels 3/4: Worked for or around General Officers, SES, or Presidential appointees.
  • US Military Veterans & US Military Reservists.
  • Active DoD TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
  • For higher levels 3/4: DoD 8140/8570 IAT III or IASAE II Baseline (CISSP/CASP) and Computing Cloud Related Environment certification, e.g., Azure, AWS, CNCF, Rancher, VMware.
Travel and Work Requirements

Employee will be required to travel in support of distant end solutions installations or break-fix actions if they cannot be accomplished remotely. Such travel may be with limited (less than 3 days) notice. Travel includes but is not limited to: Europe, Asia, San Diego, CA, and other CONUS locations as required.

Security Clearance and Certification

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation. You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply. Employment with the ARL will require successful completion of a pre-employment drug screen.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Penn State is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, and is committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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