13 days ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of secure cloud architectures supporting warfighter needs, distributed maritime operations, data-driven mission capabilities, and Navy objectives.
- Develop hybrid edge-to-cloud architectures integrating tactical edge nodes, on-platform compute, on-premises infrastructure, and cloud environments.
- Architect solutions for multi-classification environments, cross-domain considerations, and multi-level security requirements.
- Lead cloud deployments and modernization across AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, on-premises, tactical, and containerized environments.
- Implement and optimize DevSecOps pipelines using Infrastructure as Code, automated security scanning, configuration management, and secure deployment practices.
- Ensure architectures comply with Department of War cloud standards, Impact Levels 4, 5, and 6+, Zero Trust principles, RMF requirements, cybersecurity controls, and mission assurance needs.
- Provide technical leadership to engineers, developers, cybersecurity personnel, operators, program leadership, and government stakeholders.
- Support architecture reviews, technical planning, risk identification, trade studies, and stakeholder briefings.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 14 or more years of experience, master’s degree with 12 or more years, or PhD/JD with 9 or more years.
- U.S. citizenship and an active Secret clearance at start, with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI after starting.
- Active CompTIA Security+ certification.
- Extensive experience in cloud architecture, distributed systems, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps, or related technical roles.
- Experience designing, deploying, integrating, or sustaining cloud solutions in AWS, Azure, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or similar environments.
- Experience with secure cloud, hybrid cloud, edge-to-cloud, containerized, or enterprise platform architectures.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps practices.
- Familiarity with containerization, Kubernetes, Docker, microservices architectures, and cloud-native application deployment patterns.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity, storage, compute, security, monitoring, and infrastructure operations.
- Ability to collaborate with engineers, operators, cybersecurity personnel, program managers, and government stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining architecture decisions, technical risks, dependencies, and recommendations.
- Preferred experience includes Navy warfighting concepts, distributed maritime operations, mission engineering, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, Department of War cloud standards, Impact Levels 4–6+, Zero Trust, RMF, STIGs, vulnerability scanning, patch remediation, cross-domain solutions, multi-level security, data streaming, event-driven architectures, real-time analytics, distributed data platforms, and tactical or shipboard cloud environments.
- Preferred technical experience includes AWS services, Terraform, CloudFormation, YAML, JSON, Git, Bash, Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Platform, Amazon EKS, and service mesh environments.
Benefits
- Onsite position in San Diego, California.
- Up to 20% travel is required.
- The role supports Naval Operational Architecture and national defense mission capabilities.
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About SAIC
SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) is a government technology integrator delivering systems engineering, enterprise IT, secure cloud, cybersecurity, C5ISR, and data analytics for U.S. defense, space, intelligence, and civilian agencies. It builds and sustains mission IT and digital engineering solutions under multi-year federal contracts and task orders. Founded in 1969, SAIC is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, and is a public company traded on the NYSE under the ticker SAIC.