At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.
Senior Solutions Architect
Two Six Technologies is seeking an energetic Sr. Solutions Architect/Technical Lead for an amazing opportunity in Herndon, VA. Are you driven to lead a team to build new, migrated, or re-hosted cloud enabled mission capabilities, then this is the career for you! The ideal candidate will also have proven experience as a Solutions Architect implementing well architected systems with at least one strong example at an Enterprise level.
What you will do
Provide the government customer with analysis, recommendations and/or prototypes in the area of open and well architected systems, software modernization, system automation, and SIGINT mission integration and evaluation by:
○ Evaluating systems and making recommendations for new, migrated and re-hosted cloud enabled mission capabilities
○ Informing integration of common software, services, and applications
○ Maximizing automation, improving O&M effectiveness
○ Evaluating and making recommendations based on latency requirements, compute resources, storage, etc.
○ Understanding and recommending best practice of automatic failover, system recovery and replication challenges
○ Evaluating system tuning, informing optimal configurations
○ Recommending system monitoring tools and the best use of them
● Conducting requirements definition, capability specifications, design and development, acceptance test and evaluation, system integration, training, deployment, and maintenance support
● Providing contract support as a technical Subject Matter Expert; writing technical analysis, trade studies and white papers
What you will need (basic qualifications)
● 4+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect
● Bachelor’s degree or equal years of hands-on professional experience
● Experience supporting U.S. Government program(s) in the Washington Metro Area
● Cloud based Solutions Architect with experience in implementing well architected systems
● Knowledge of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Mission Capabilities and Systems
● Proven experience designing/developing well architected cloud based microservices/systems or integrating to frameworks in AWS and/or Azure cloud
● Deep understanding of how to build CI/CD pipelines using DevSecOps tools and ability to advise/guide decision makers and teams on how to implement tools for best use pertaining to different architectures
● Knowledge and practical application of agile methodologies and best practices
● Outstanding written and oral communication skills and client focus
● Demonstrated ability to respond to critical ad hoc taskings with short time suspense and minimal guidance.
● Experience with optimizing an existing system in the cloud (AWS or Azure)
● Ability to produce and present findings and recommendations to a team of colleagues and clients
Nice to haves (preferred)
● Current Certificate: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect
● Knowledge and expertise applying principles of ICD-503/Risk Management Framework and achieving and maintaining the Authority to Operate (ATO)
● Experience with cloud-based networking infrastructure products, Authentication and Authorization (A&A), Role Based Access Controls (RBAC), use of network change requests and firewall change requests to achieve system to system network connectivity via non-person entities
Clearance Requitement
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
