Senior/Principal Solutions Architect - Computing Infrastructure, Onsite

About Sandia

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

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What Your Job Will Be Like

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Solution Architect to design, architect, implement, and maintain national assets that provide novel solutions to national security missions that have a daily impact for the country.


In this role, you will collaborate to architect, design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain modern networks and data processing infrastructures for sophisticated, real-time decision support systems in both traditional and emerging government-owned cloud-based environments. You will help design, build, and maintain systems that contain a wide variety of technologies and implementations within networking, storage, processing platforms, display, virtualization, containers, and foundational components of DevOps pipelines. You will also partner across our teams to ensure mission success.


We invite you to join our team if you have a consistent track record of meeting and exceeding customer expectations, precision and accuracy, consistently delivering on schedule, a passion for continual service improvement, and the desire to learn new technologies, concepts, and processes.


On any given day, the selected candidate may be called upon to:

• Work on an agile team to architect, design, implement and operate network systems that support real-time mission critical projects using advanced network architectures and techniques in traditional data centers and cloud environments.
• Design, architect, implement and operate compute systems and storage solutions with unique first-of-a-kind system architectures.
• Design, architect, implement and operate private cloud and commercial cloud systems to support future capabilities and missions.
• Identify and track system deficiencies to recommended and implement creative solutions.
• Ensure all services, platforms, and infrastructure meet team standards related to security, documentation, maintainability, and performance.
• Network with a diverse technical population to identify new opportunities for improving our capabilities and impact.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite. Some travel is required.

Salary Range

$117,500 - $235,700

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

Qualifications We Require

• A Bachelor¿s degree or above in a relevant field plus 10 years of directly relevant experience.
• Experience in the following:
  • Design, configuration, installation, maintenance, and administration in traditional networking infrastructures at both Layer 2 and Layer 3.
  • Linux Servers.
• Experience with at least two of the following:
  • Private cloud environments
  • Public cloud environments
  • Virtualized environments
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q and SCI, which may require a polygraph examination.
  
  

Qualifications We Desire

• 5 additional years of related experience, in addition to the education and experience requirements above
• Experience Designing, developing, and analyzing overall architecture of compute systems, including hardware, software, and cloud solutions that meet performance, scalability, reliability, and security needs.
• Experience researching, designing, and implementing new technologies to improve current systems.
• Experience deploying and using Ansible Tower
• Experience with container environments using tools such as Docker and Podman
• Experience with private cloud environments using OpenStack or Terraform
• Experience in integration and acceptance testing
• Experience in problem identification, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting skillsets
• Proven teaming skills
• Ability to function in a dynamic, fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to learn new technologies, concepts, and processes
• Ability to prioritize, manage, and complete multiple projects within appropriate scope and timeframe
• Existing Security + certification, CISSP, or Cisco CCNA
• Active Q clearance
• Active SCI clearance
  
  

About Our Team

We design, build, test, analyze, and integrate first-of-a-kind large-scale mission unique system solutions for national security customers. These systems are used daily in the real world to solve national security missions. We work the full lifecycle to architect, procure, deploy, integrate, and maintain advanced high-performance computer systems in on-premise, private cloud, and public cloud environments to process, display, store, and disseminate high throughput sensor data. We also develop cutting edge infrastructure and tools used to enable our R&D software development teams to create complex mission unique capabilities that only exist at Sandia National Laboratories.

Posting Duration

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Security Clearance

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance and SCI access, both of which require US citizenship. SCI access may also require a polygraph examination. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain these levels of access may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by the DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.


If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.