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MANTECH seeks an experienced and passionate, career and customer-oriented Cloud System Architect to join our team in Laurel, MD.
You will leverage deep technical expertise to architect, deploy, and scale enterprise cloud environments, leading end-to-end integration and delivering robust infrastructure solutions supporting critical mission requirements.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Deliver new cloud solutions into existing cloud resources and off-premise infrastructure to advance mission objectives.
- Deploy, configure, and maintain robust cloud production, staging, and test environments across hybrid architectures.
- Oversee full-lifecycle integration, including application and infrastructure deployment, load testing, and disaster recovery (DR) planning.
- Evaluate customer requirements to select optimal, agile, and scalable cloud services while defining architecture and execution roadmaps.
- Fully document cloud infrastructure, configurations, and operational procedures to ensure seamless handoffs to application teams.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline with 12+ years of experience as a Systems Architect (or Associate degree with 15+ years of experience, or High School Diploma with 20+ years of experience in lieu of degree).
- Proficiency across enterprise cloud computing platforms such as AWS, OpenStack, or Microsoft Azure.
- Demonstrated ability to configure, administer, and manage both Linux and Windows workloads.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools, such as Amazon CloudFormation, OpsWorks, Ansible, Chef, or Docker.
- Experience designing and implementing IaaS and PaaS environments utilizing platforms such as OpenStack, Eucalyptus, OpenShift, or Kubernetes.
- Experience developing automated software scripts using languages such as Perl, Python, or Ruby.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong communication and teamwork abilities, with proven experience supporting enterprise or government IT environments.
- Hands-on experience developing and deploying automation routines via SaltStack, Ansible, BASH, and Python.
- Proven expertise managing, maintaining, and securing data storage systems across cloud and hybrid infrastructure to ensure availability, performance, backup integrity, and cost control.
Clearance Requirements:
- Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
- Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, and collaborative spaces.
- Frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations and exchanging accurate information in these situations.
The projected compensation range for this position is $128,000.00-$214,400.00. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, MANTECH invests in its employees beyond just compensation. MANTECH’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.
MANTECH considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability or veteran status or any other status protected under any federal, state, or local law or regulation.
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