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Senior Google Cloud Architect
Signal Hill Technologies
Senior Google Cloud Architect
Job Description
Signal Hill Technologies is a cybersecurity services firm located in Northern Virginia. Our team has many years of experience defending both US Government and commercial clients against sophisticated, well-funded, motivated adversaries. Our core expertise is built upon work performed for the US Dept. of Defense, the Intelligence Community, the Financial Services industry, and work to protect US critical infrastructure. Our mission is to provide the best technical solutions and hands-on support to address each customer’s unique cyber risks.
Signal Hill 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. Signal Hill is seeking a Senior Google Cloud Architect to assess and develop cloud-based architectures and requirements and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts in the development of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Partnering with the Chief Engineer to develop advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented architectures that provide new cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer
- Partnering with Agile Scrum teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented cybersecurity capabilities
- Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
Required Skills
- Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.
- Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
- 10+ years of applicable experience
- 2+ years of Google cloud architecture experience
- Google cloud technology 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 IT products and services
- Strong working knowledge of IT Service Operations
- Innovative, technical mindset
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills and proven ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization
- Ability to rapidly analyze information and identify relevant facts
- Ability to shape opinions of key stakeholders and influence outcomes, with a 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 and familiarity with implementing and maintaining a Google Cloud environment
- Familiarity with the following technologies in a cloud environment: Elk Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana), Ansible, Nessus, ClamAV, AIDE, Splunk, DNS, NAT, git
- Azure Cloud and AWS Cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience – 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 Google technologies, migrations to a Google environment and maintenance of a Google environment
- Experience with agile tools, including Jira and 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.)
- Experience with Python/bash scripting
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 Cloud-related certifications