Ground Systems Engineer/Cloud Architect (Top Secret)

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Ground Systems Engineer/Cloud Architect (Top Secret)

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Ground Systems Engineer/Cloud Architect

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

You will work in a small, highly empowered team where every team member is directly responsible for the success of the program.  Responsibilities span technology domains including space rated hardware, software, sensors, and processors in an extremely fast-paced, responsive development environment. This candidate will provide in-depth background on digital engineering and cloud computing architectures to improve program office insight into state-of-the art IC, DoD, commercial capabilities for ground command, control and communication systems for space applications. You must apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts for highly classified systems, while also effectively communicating complex results with management and executive leadership.

Government Consultant Role and Responsibilities:

• Leads or supports technical programs, projects, or tasks whose technical complexity requires engineering oversight
• Ensures completion of programs, projects, or tasks within estimated time frames and budget constraints
  • Provides input to the government customer concerning risks to performance, schedule, and budget due to either proposed contractor plans or contractor’s execution of accepted plans
• Ensures the quality of the program, project, or task deliverables meet or exceed standards or metrics and assesses such deliverables to ensure that final deliverables will meet the warfighting purpose for which they are intended
• Responsible for the overall technical/engineering portions of major projects(s) or program(s)
• Coordinates with multiple partners/agencies to ensure system engineering communities support delivery milestones

• Collaborate to design and create a multi-level security, hybrid cloud-based (tech stack(s) connecting to cloud) architecture
• Propose cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring
• Ability to work with cloud architecture team and help with cloud migration, Data Security, and deployment strategy in cloud environments
• Experienced in implementing and overseeing cloud computing strategy, and delivery of cloud solutions
• Demonstrated understanding of IT infrastructure tools, processes, and practices, including cloud resource provisions, deployment, microservices, and DevOps
• Ability to work independently within a complex environment to evaluate issues and address questions from the internal and external shareholders about their questions regarding cloud Implementation/Migration
• Oversees and advises government program management on integration across full spectrum of interfaces, to include coordination with multiple mission partners
• Oversees program and capability documentation is sufficiently defined to operationally needed levels, oversees configuration and integration working groups, and coordinates with management to ensure interface definitions support delivery milestones
• Communicate clearly, concisely, and with technical accuracy—oral and written

Required skills:

• Minimum ten (15) years DoD/IC, or relevant industry work experience
• Experience with systems integrator processes generally accepted and adopted across US Government acquisitions and operations as guided by DAU and the DOD 5000 series of regulations together with analogous industry standards sourced from IEEE/IEA/ISO, PMI and INCOSE
• Experience in cloud deployments/migrations.
• Experience with software development
• Exceptional and/or unique qualifications in developing, deploying, and maintaining ground mission planning architecture and software
• Experience in development and fielding satellite ground systems, to include ground entry points, command, control, communication sys