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Years of Experience: minimum of 10-15 years of related experience

Education Requirements: Master's degree in a related field

Program Description: The Program Management Office task, supporting the Digital Innovation for General Services Administration (GSA) Infrastructure Technologies (DIGIT) task order, is relied upon to provide overarching guidance and management support for infrastructure engineering projects to assist with the design, documentation, and implementation work. All solution engineering shall follow the GSA framework and methodology. Such projects may consist of building and deploying new networks and infrastructure components (including security features) as well as removing existing network features and infrastructure components.

Position Description: As the Chief Solutions Architect - Infrastructure/Security, your day-to-day activities will be performed in conjunction with DIGIT and Government leaders. The day-to-day support may include supporting projects, tasks, and activities throughout projects life-cycles; providing status updates and resolving problems, issues, or conflicts, as required; and ensuring that program schedule, costs, performance, and deliverables are met.

The Chief Solutions Architect - Infrastructure/Security will combine expert-level engineering experience and an innate drive to improve existing systems and processes, with the creativity to develop novel solutions to evolving challenges. This position is accountable for developing solutions that ensure the availability and reliability of critical platform services, application and development of new solutions, ensuring they meet the requirements of internal users, external users and security. This role is expected to collaborate with business leaders in building and running sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in a government environment. This role is also responsible for supporting new technologies and initiatives designed to add business value.

Responsibilities: The Chief Solutions Architect - Infrastructure/Security shall perform the following (to include but not limited to) activities:

• Oversee the development of infrastructure management processes & procedures along with relevant documentation including architecture diagrams, System Implementation Plans, Standard Operating Procedures, Operational Level Agreements.
• Oversee the development and integration of strategy & program for the delivery of security services in support of the IS Governance, Risk, and Compliance function within GSA IT and DIGIT.
• Leads the overall technology assessment and selections across product portfolios to create a homogenous architecture with simplicity, automation, and innovation.
• Provide Strategic Leadership related to engineering and security innovations and provide alignment with organizational strategic direction and timelines.
• Assist in the development of a multi-year strategic plan driving implementation and innovation to achieve full automation ambition
• Ensures the digital transformation strategy aligns with organizational strategic direction and architectural/security requirements.
• Provide Architectural and Security support where possible to ensure the enterprise has the appropriate infrastructure to support all business-related capabilities and support.
• Advise cross functional teams to sufficiently achieve technical and procedural goals.
• Regularly review technical detail from delegate teams and produce executive-level reports and analyses.
• Communicate with both technical team members as well as executive/management level individuals.
• Support in-production go-live activities such as coordination of infrastructure, engineering support, and architectural reviews as well as engagement with security.
• Provide guidance to management and executives regarding planning future direction for existing infrastructure including but not limited to public/private cloud migrations.
• Apply the security models defined in NIST SP 800-53, SP 800-88, and provide guidance to the team regarding generalized security control models.
• Supporting environment with over 15,000 machines, physical virtual Servers and Workstations.
• Supporting Multi-mix environment composed of Windows, Unix, Linux
• Ability to assess problems and identify quick workarounds while working towards long-term strategic solutions.
• Assist in creating, managing, and updating continuous integration (CI) / continuous delivery (CD) pipelines using tools such as Gradle, Docker, GitHub, Chef, Nexus, Jenkins, JUnit, Tomcat, SonarQube, Selenium, Cucumber, etc.
• Assist in designing, developing, and operationalizing new processes such as on-demand environment provisioning
• Identify opportunities for refinement, tools consolidation, and continuous improvement
• Work as a communicator, and collaborator in a multi-project, multi-contractor environment
• Assist in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and remediation
• Build maintenance and support automated processes
• Provide guidance as a subject matter expert on product design, development, troubleshooting, and documentation

Requirements

Required Skills:

• Public Trust Clearance by start date.
• ITILv4 Foundation Training and ITILv4 Foundation Certification, may be obtained within 120 days after hire.
• CISSP Certification
• Possesses and applies comprehensive knowledge across key tasks, concepts, processes, practices, and procedures on multiple complex work assignments.
• Expert knowledge of and experience keeping up with changes to common information security management frameworks, such as NIST, SSAE, ISO/IEC 27001, CMMC and FedRamp, as well as regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, PCI/DSS
• Assignments may be broad in nature, requiring practical experience and training to determine how to accomplish tasks.
• Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.
• Functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments.
• Contributes to deliverables and performance metrics where applicable.
• Advisory experience on operational and policy issues and trends, making recommendations for optimizing operational collaboration, efficiencies, and effectiveness.
• Advisory experience related to project oversight, directing, and overseeing the mission-critical work, activities, taking initiatives, leading teams, and managing risk.
• Experience supporting industry standard software products.
• Experience as a remote worker demonstrating time management and self discipline.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to do the following:

• As a remote position, personnel are expected to maintain their home workspace in a safe manner, free from safety hazards.
• Personnel are expected to ensure the protection of proprietary company and customer information accessible from their home office consistent with the companys expectations of information security.
• Communicate verbally and respond to verbal communications in person, over the phone or by video chat.
• Communicate clearly and succinctly in writing, primarily utilizing a keyboard
• Sitting for long periods.
• Viewing computer screens for long periods of time.
• Travel is not required.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with the following technologies:
  • Hypervisor Technologies - VMWare
  • Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services (AWS), MS Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Experience of Office 365, Google Suite
  • Integration of APIs
  • Codecommit//CodeDeploy, GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, AWS Codebuild, Powershell, Terraform
  • SQL Server, PostGres
  • ServiceNow
  • OS: Linux and Windows
  • Json, YAML, Python, Ansible, Javascript, Cucumber, Selenium
  • Active Directory (AD), ADFS, LDAP
  • DevSecOps
• Shall possess the ability to communicate in both oral and written forms, demonstrating an ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff as well as clients.
• Possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments.
• Ability to contribute to planning and reporting and serve as lead on high visibility technology assignments.
• Ability to evaluate engineering performance results and present recommendations affecting short-term project growth and success.
• Familiarity with the following technologies: Google Suite and Service NOW
• AWS, GCP, or Azure Certifications
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Agile Experience
• Possess the ability to communicate in both oral and written forms, demonstrating an ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff as well as clients.
• Demonstrated ability to apply comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact

Soft Skills: