C2 Solutions Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton • Nellis AFB, NV

1d • $112,800 - $257,000 • Onsite

About The Position

At a certain point, experience-based system design can start to look like clairvoyance. When you’ve developed so many systems that you can not only orchestrate the best solution for any technology-based challenge, but you can also anticipate and preempt future issues, you’re a solutions architect. You’ve evolved your skills into strategy through a long path of software development accomplishments and the curiosity to understand how all the pieces of an IT ecosystem fit together. Are you ready to use your combination of knowledge, skill, and experience to take on the toughest challenges in command and control (C2)? As a C2 solution architect, on our team, you'll translate your customer’s IT needs and future goals into a plan by crafting stands up, wires, deploys, and sustains the full hardware-and-software stack behind a command-and-control capability. This is a hands-on, client-facing engineering role that bridges traditional system administration, communications systems, and modern cloud/virtualization, in a forward operating environment. Through your leadership, we’ll help transform the way Air Operations Centers (AOC) and DoW uses technology including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems. And, what do you do next in a career where you’ve reached this level? You mentor the next set of developers to help them grow into tomorrow’s solutions architects. As a technical leader, you’ll shape the digital solutions business and identify opportunities for growth. Work with us and build the future of technology in supporting advanced command and control (C2) in an Air Operations Center for the better. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

• Experience as a system administrator supporting Windows or Linux servers, including build, configuration, patching, and sustainment
• Experience physically wiring, cabling, and integrating servers and computing systems, including reading and interpreting wiring schematics and rack or one-line diagrams
• Experience operating and troubleshooting communications systems, including military radios, such as load, program, and troubleshoot, and commercial communications equipment
• Experience deploying software applications to a virtual machine or cloud environment, including hands-on work with AWS and VMware ESXi
• Experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker or Kubernetes, for application deployment
• Experience applying general security compliance practices, such as RMF, STIGs, hardening, and vulnerability remediation, to fielded systems
• Experience standing up, configuring, and maintaining a tactical or deployable data center
• Experience communicating directly with clients and stakeholders to translate operational needs into technical solutions
• Ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor's degree or 8+ years of experience in engineering, computer science, mathematics, or physics in lieu of a degree

Nice To Haves

• Experience with command-and-control (C2) systems and tactical data links, such as Link 16 or JREAP-C, and RF theory
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code or configuration management such as Terraform or Ansible, for repeatable deployments
• Experience supporting deployable, expeditionary, or austere field environments
• Knowledge of high-voltage power system troubleshooting supporting data center or field infrastructure
• Knowledge of HVAC or environmental-control troubleshooting for server and equipment spaces
• Knowledge of AWS GovCloud or other secure or classified cloud enclaves
• Knowledge of network configuration and troubleshooting, including routing, switching, and VLANs, for stood-up C2 enclaves
• TS/SCI clearance
• CompTIA Security+, Network+, A+, or CASP+ certification

Responsibilities

• Translate customer’s IT needs and future goals into a plan by crafting, standing up, wiring, deploying, and sustaining the full hardware-and-software stack behind a command-and-control capability.
• Mentor the next set of developers to help them grow into tomorrow’s solutions architects.
• Shape the digital solutions business and identify opportunities for growth.
• Build the future of technology in supporting advanced command and control (C2) in an Air Operations Center.

Benefits

• health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
• paid leave
• professional development
• tuition assistance
• work-life programs
• dependent care
• recognition awards program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree