Infrastructure Architect

at  Alpha Omega

Alpha Omega Integration LLC is an award-winning Federal IT Solutions provider. Since its inception in September 2016, we have grown from a start-up to a $100m/year business. Alpha Omega’s growth stems from our mission focus: to make the US Government the best in the world. We achieve that via advanced capabilities in the areas of Design & Product Management, DevSecOps & Cloud Engineering, Intelligent Automation, and Cybersecurity.
Our consistent growth has fostered a series of accolades including Inc. 5000 and Washington Technology’s Fast 50 awards for five consecutive years, Virginia Business Best Places to Work ten years in a row, and Maryland Technology Council’s 2022 Government Contract of the Year over $50 Million Dollars award, to name a few.
We are seeking passionate federal IT professionals to join our team.
Come support our nation’s government agencies and make a difference!

JOB SUMMARY:

The Infrastructure Architect will have overall responsibility to plan, design, assemble, and oversee the systems as part of the program. The Infrastructure Architect will assess existing cloud resources, determine any changes that may be needed to improve system performance, and make recommendations. The Infrastructure Architect shall provide to engineers and developers on the team based on best practices to ensure the infrastructure continues to support fluctuating demands. The infrastructure Architect shall work with operations and other teams, they develop strategies and action plans for implementing upgrades and integrations to applications.

REQUIRED EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s Degree

Required Skills/Experience:

• Experience with DevOpsSec pipeline tools including configuration management, requirements (JIRA), automated testing, automated deployments (CI/CD pipelines), blue green deployments, and branching strategy and implementation.
• Experience applying The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) in Agile solution designs to minimize technical debt and improve overall velocity
• Experience designing logical and network diagrams
• Experience with migration of applications from AWS Commercial Cloud to FedRamp Approved Gov Cloud.
• Experience in outlining evaluation benchmarks for system performance assessments
• Experience in implementing technical architecture standards based on industry best practices
• Experience in engaging stakeholders, understand their needs, and then translate those needs into a minimum viable product.
• Experience providing advice to project teams around technical solutions, best practices, and efficiencies.
• Experience in reviewing environments to detect deficiencies, recommend, plan and implement solutions for improvement.
• Experience in performing functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships.
• Experience in leading the development, implementation of robust, quantitative technology evaluation processes.
• Experience in documenting performance criteria and testing strategies, quantify results, trade-offs and recommendations using a data-driven approach to support conclusions.
• Experience in review design documents to ensure that they follow the industry and Government standards.
• Experience in presenting the architecture, design documents to the client, rework based on comments and obtain client approval.
• Experience in maintaining awareness and expertise of the latest cloud and infrastructure, orchestration, and automation visualization technologies in order to proactively support the adoption of truly beneficial new capabilities.
• Experience in interacting with specialists and get their contribution to integrations, securing the application and migration of application as well as data to clou

• Provide leadership for strategic planning or complex problem-solving for programs and projects including the creation, maintenance, and governance of roadmaps
• Provide recommendations and implement ways to modernize technology to meet business demands in a cost-effective manner
• Design and implement Cloud-based AWS solutions

Required Skills/Experience:

• Experience with DevOpsSec pipeline tools including configuration management, requirements (JIRA), automated testing, automated deployments (CI/CD pipelines), blue green deployments, and branching strategy and implementation.
• Experience applying The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) in Agile solution designs to minimize technical debt and improve overall velocity
• Experience designing logical and network diagrams
• Experience with migration of applications from AWS Commercial Cloud to FedRamp Approved Gov Cloud.
• Experience in outlining evaluation benchmarks for system performance assessments
• Experience in implementing technical architecture standards based on industry best practices
• Experience in engaging stakeholders, understand their needs, and then translate those needs into a minimum viable product.
• Experience providing advice to project teams around technical solutions, best practices, and efficiencies.
• Experience in reviewing environments to detect deficiencies, recommend, plan and implement solutions for improvement.
• Experience in performing functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships.
• Experience in leading the development, implementation of robust, quantitative technology evaluation processes.
• Experience in documenting performance criteria and testing strategies, quantify results, trade-offs and recommendations using a data-driven approach to support conclusions.
• Experience in review design documents to ensure that they follow the industry and Government standards.
• Experience in presenting the architecture, design documents to the client, rework based on comments and obtain client approval.
• Experience in maintaining awareness and expertise of the latest cloud and infrastructure, orchestration, and automation visualization technologies in order to proactively support the adoption of truly beneficial new capabilities.
• Experience in interacting with specialists and get their contribution to integrations, securing the application and migration of application as well as data to cloud