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Principal Cloud Architect (AWS)
RTX Corporation22270 Pacific Boulevard Building CC5, Sterling, VA, 20166-6924 USA
Onsite
Full-time
Date Posted:
2024-08-16Country:
United States of AmericaLocation:
VA543: 22270 Pacific Blvd, Dulles 22270 Pacific Boulevard Building CC5, Sterling, VA, 20166-6924 USAPosition Role Type:
HybridYou have been redirected to RTX’s career page as we have recently transitioned from RTX to become a standalone company, which provides us with greater autonomy and opportunities for growth. As a prospective employee of Nightwing, you’ll have the chance to contribute to our continued success and shape the future of our cybersecurity, intelligence, and services offerings.
Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.
Nightwing is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Nightwing is seeking a Principal Cloud Architect (AWS) to assess, design, and develop automated cloud-based requirements and architectures and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts into advanced cloud infrastructure, management, and operations.
Responsibilities include:
- Partnering with the Chief Engineer to develop advanced, leading-edge, automated, cloud-oriented architectures that provide new cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer
- Define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision
- Become a member of an Agile Feature team to design and implement an automated cloud infrastructure supporting advanced, cloud-oriented cybersecurity capabilities
- Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding priorities, capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications
- Full lifecycle oversight of requirements driven automation architecture
Required Skills:
- Must be a US Citizen
- Active Secret clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
- 10+ years of applicable experience
- 5+ years of cloud architecting experience
- In-depth cloud technology automation knowledge and implementation experience
- Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading technical teams and projects
- Able to work effectively as a leader, in a group, or as an individual contributor
- Strong working knowledge of Cloud centric IT products and services
- Knowledge of Networking
- In Depth Knowledge of Automation techniques, including microservices, pipeline driven delivery, full scope automation orchestration, and configuration driven deployments
- Experience in landing zones, guard rails, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, bash/PSH and/or CloudFormation
- Innovative, technical mindset
- Independently driven
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and proven ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization
- Ability to analyze information and identify relevant facts
- Ability to shape opinions of key stakeholders and influence outcomes
- Proven track record of achieving desired results
- Strong and diverse business and technical acumen
- Experience working with senior leadership including VP and Director levels
Desired Skills:
- Experience with Management and Operation of AWS services in the areas of Identity Management, Security Management, Cloud Management and Governance, Cost Management, Compliance, Migration Services, Networking Services, Infrastructure Automation, and DevOps.
- Direct experience with development of one or more of the following automation technologies in a cloud/Linux environment: Ansible, Nessus, Splunk, DNS, Git, Cloudbees (Jenkins), Terraform, CloudFormations.
- Direct experience with utilization of one or more of the following AWS tools: Systems Manager, Cost Optimization, Security Hub, EKS, Workspaces.
- AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience
- Experience with Azure or Google Cloud
- Influential communication and ability to achieve alignment
- Experience managing many people and projects
- Experience working in an agile development environment
- Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience
- Experience working on projects that implement analytic models into production systems
- Experience with AWS technologies, and migrations from on-prem to AWS
- Experience with collaboration tools including MS Teams, MS Outlook, MS SharePoint, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, and Atlassian Jira Align
Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.
Desired Certifications:
- DoD 8570.1 IAT Level II
- AWS Solution Architect – Professional
Previously part of a leading Fortune 100 company and headquartered in Dulles, VA; Nightwing became independent in 2024 but continues to support the nation’s most mission impactful initiatives.
When we formed Nightwing, we brought a deep set of credentials and an unfaltering commitment to the mission. For over four decades, our team has been providing some of the world’s most technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence support services to the U.S. government on its most important missions.
At Nightwing, we value collaboration and teamwork. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. Together, we’ll leverage our collective expertise to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver exceptional results for our clients.
Thank you for considering joining us as we embark on this new journey and shape the future of cybersecurity and intelligence together as part of the Nightwing team.
The salary range for this role is 130,000 USD - 272,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.
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Principal Cloud Architect (AWS)
Location
22270 Pacific Boulevard Building CC5, Sterling, VA, 20166-6924 USA
Workplace
Onsite
Type
Full-time