Solutions Architect

Title: Solutions Architect

Location: Washington, DC

Duration: 1 Year+ Contract

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise solution architectures that support mission-critical applications and services
• Translate business, functional, and technical requirements into scalable solution designs
• Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and disaster-resilient architectures using data center and cloud best practices
• Evaluate existing infrastructure and recommend modernization strategies
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform
• Architect data center and cloud containerized solutions utilizing VMware VKS, RedHat OpenShift, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Lambda, and related AWS services
• Design and support GitLab DevSecOps pipelines and CI/CD tools
• Optimize proposed technology solutions for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Lead architecture reviews, technical assessments, and design validation activities
• Develop technical documentation including architecture diagrams, interface specifications, design documents, and implementation plans
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineers, developers, and infrastructure teams
• Support Authority to Operate (ATO) efforts, continuous monitoring, and security assessments
• Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders to estimate technical effort, identify risks, and develop implementation strategies
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate

Candidate Capability and Experience Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science/Information Management Systems, or equivalent level technical experience
• 5+ years performing Solutions Architecture activities
• 5+ years developing business, application, and technology architecture
• Demonstrated expertise in data center technologies as well as cloud solutioning

Cloud Operations:

• AWS and Azure experience in multiple accounts/subscriptions environment
• Experience provisioning and managing cloud services (e.g. compute, storage, networking, security, databases) in an enterprise environment
• Cloud networking (e.g. VPC, firewall, security groups, VPN, hybrid cloud Direct Connect/Express Route)
• Cloud resource management automation

DevSecOps:

• Demonstrated experience developing with modern application programming frameworks
• Demonstrated experience containerizing applications
• Demonstrated experience managing GitLab pipelines
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and best practices
• Experience writing Terraform HCL infrastructure code
• Git Version Control in DevOps: Git best practices, branching, tagging, release management, etc.

Containers/Kubernetes:

• Demonstrated experience deploying to AWS and Azure Kubernetes environments
• Demonstrated experience with datacenter Kubernetes platforms such as VMware VKS and RedHat OpenShift
• Demonstrated experience developing Dockerfiles and Helm charts
• 5+ years system engineering/administration with Linux and Windows systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineering teams and influence technical decision-making
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with elected officials, senior staff, information systems professionals, and non-technical users
• Security: Ability to obtain Public Trust required