Role Description SAIC is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect with AI Cloud to support a transformational infrastructure program for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA). This position is remote with limited travel. - Serve as a cloud architecture leader, providing guidance and mentorship to team members. - Design and deliver secure, compliant workloads within a platform-managed hub-and-spoke environment across AWS GovCloud and Azure Government. - Integrate advancements in AI Cloud capabilities for enhanced mission impact. - Architect and deliver secure, scalable AWS-centric solutions with multi-cloud fluency across Azure Government/GCP. - Be well-versed in platform management constructs to facilitate design discussions and articulate workload requirements. - Operate as a liaison between mission teams, leadership, and platform providers. - Ensure workload strategies align with programmatic, operational, and compliance goals. - Translate complex requirements into practical architectures while balancing compliance with DoD operational constraints. Qualifications - Experience in cloud architecture and deployment. - Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies and their application in cloud environments. - Proven leadership and team management skills. - Excellent communication and collaboration abilities. Requirements - Mentor and manage team members involved in workload architecture and cloud deployment. - Define and communicate workload requirements for routing, firewall/inspection, DNS, identity trust, logging/telemetry, secrets, and egress. - Manage cross-functional teams and discussions to ensure alignment between workload needs and platform provisioning. - Drive the creation of workload reference architectures and IaC templates. - Lead the team in implementing secure network zoning and service exposure. - Map workload data and mission needs to SRG IL2–IL6 and engineer control implementations. - Lead collaboration efforts with external vendors and industry solution providers. - Define and manage workload resilience strategies, including Multi-AZ/Region configurations. Benefits - Opportunity to work on mission-critical projects. - Remote work flexibility with limited travel. - Competitive salary and benefits package. Company Description SAIC is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. We integrate emerging technology into mission-critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives. - Approximately 23,000 employees. - Annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. - Equal Opportunity Employer.

Role Description The Mid-Level Cloud Engineer designs and supports cloud-native solutions on AWS—leveraging EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, GitHub Actions, Terraform, and VPC networking—emphasizing scalability, security, and automation to support EDP operations. Key Responsibilities - Design, implement, and support highly automated AWS cloud-native solutions, emphasizing scalability, security, and automation across the EDP ecosystem. - Engineer and operate AWS services central to the program (EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM), integrating IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions) to enable repeatable, compliant deployments. - Implement/maintain VPC networking patterns required for secure platform connectivity and operational effectiveness. - Coordinate with infrastructure architecture and cybersecurity to ensure cloud-native solutions meet resilience and compliance objectives. Qualifications - Minimum 7+ years hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting highly automated cloud-native solutions on AWS using EKS, Lambda, S3, IAM, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and VPC networking. Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/IS or related field (preferred). - Strong experience in AWS cloud technologies and/or Databricks. - Experience organizing and managing multiple complex and interrelated tasks; ability to coordinate with Government technical leads and maintain technical quality. - Advanced cloud certifications in good standing (highly preferred). Company Description Over the past 15 years, eTel has delivered essential solutions for the federal government by securing and managing data, providing scalable identity access, modernizing legacy systems, and building high-performance platforms. By integrating new technologies and ensuring reliable operations we help agencies stay prepared for future challenges. - eTel offers integrated CMMI Level 3 processes, tools, and techniques with innovative, cost-efficient, and secure solutions to address complex challenges. - eTel holds ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, and ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 certifications. - Offers dedicated subject matter experts (SMEs) and thought leaders that possess a deep understanding of customers’ environments and challenges.

• Manage and support a scrum team of 4 to 6 software and DevOps engineers. • Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, execution tracking, retrospectives, and delivery commitments. • Coach engineers through technical decision-making, operational ownership, prioritization, and professional growth. • Help create a team culture focused on accountability, reliability, continuous improvement, and pragmatic execution. • Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to align infrastructure and bidder team priorities with company goals. • Oversee AWS-based cloud infrastructure supporting high-volume, low-latency bidder systems. • Manage cloud environments that process over 1 billion HTTP requests per hour. • Help operate and optimize millions of dollars of cloud infrastructure spend. • Identify opportunities to reduce cost, improve system utilization, and increase performance. • Drive improvements in observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, deployment safety, and operational readiness. • Ensure systems are designed and operated for scalability, reliability, availability, and maintainability. • Lead engineering work on high-volume bidder software for a demand-side platform. • Support backend systems where latency, throughput, uptime, and cost efficiency are business-critical. • Help the team make sound technical tradeoffs across performance, reliability, complexity, and delivery speed. • Collaborate with engineers on architecture, system design, code quality, deployment practices, and production operations. • Ensure the team maintains strong ownership of production services from design through deployment and ongoing operation. • Participate in production support processes and help ensure appropriate team coverage. • Be available outside standard business hours as needed to support critical deployments, production incidents, time-sensitive operational events, and team response coverage. • Lead or support incident reviews, root cause analysis, follow-up planning, and long-term reliability improvements. • Build processes that reduce operational toil and improve team response effectiveness over time.

Role Description Effectual Cloud Architects are responsible for technical leadership of Professional Services projects. They partner with Effectual’s Engagement Managers (EMs) to deliver an exceptional customer and delivery team experience. Effectual Cloud Architects are “Brand Ambassadors” and are expected to demonstrate Effectual’s experience and expertise through the delivery of high-quality, leading-practice solutions to customers. A Glimpse into the Daily Routine of a Cloud Architect - Design and document a system in AWS to meet customer needs and requirements. - Meet with a customer or internal team member to troubleshoot, educate, and unblock implementation progress. - Partner with an Engagement Manager to craft customer communication. - Gather requirements, document current state, and educate customers on your solution approach. - Jump on a pre-sales call to demonstrate Effectual’s expertise and experience to a potential customer. Essential Duties and Responsibilities - Championing technical excellence by: - Driving the implementation of leading practice architecture for assigned clients. - Architecting and building solutions in AWS (e.g., Landing Zones, container platforms, application hosting environments, data storage solutions, etc.) using various AWS services like Control Tower, EKS/ECS, S3, Transit Gateway, EC2, etc. - Conducting cost-benefit and risk-reward analyses. - Designing solutions, development and deployment plans, and high-level solution validation processes for execution by delivery teams. - Being accountable for the overall technical success of client projects. - Working with technology management to refine project management processes to continually improve technical delivery efficacy. - Assisting in prioritizing and sequencing infrastructure projects, supporting project work breakdown activities, helping to remove roadblocks, and collaboratively resolving disagreements related to solution design. - Fostering continual learning and collaboration by: - Serving as a mentor to team members around leading practices. - Educating clients on solution rationale and leading practices. - Building consensus amongst all technical stakeholders. - Supporting rigorous project governance and execution through: - Meeting with team members daily to review progress. - Challenging team members on technical solution approaches and holding them accountable for implementation success. - Submitting time on assigned projects, daily. - Supporting project delivery team members by: - Always operating with transparency. - Being responsive to requests from team members for information. - Communicating working preferences and understanding the working preferences of others to help develop a high-performing team that operates with respect, effectiveness, and efficiency. Qualifications - 5+ years of continual, prior experience working as a Solution Architect consisting, in parallel, of at least: - 3+ years architecting AWS infrastructure. - 3+ years building AWS infrastructure, including at least: - 1+ year of infrastructure as code experience (Terraform preferred). - 1+ year of DevOps toolchain experience (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, AWS Code* Suite). - At least one (1) AWS Professional certification. - Strong working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices. - Proficient in developing Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform / AWS CloudFormation). - Proficient in coding configuration management tooling (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.). - Proficient in at least one or more programming / scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, Node, etc.). - Demonstrable knowledge of Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies. - Ability to work with multiple clients, in parallel. - Attention to detail. - Exceptional communication and time management. Requirements - Additional AWS certifications (e.g., Developer Associate, SysOps Administrator Associate, Solution Architect Associate, etc.). - Prior management experience is helpful, even though this is an individual contributor role. - Container development. - Container orchestration using platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS EKS, etc. - Implementing static and dynamic code analysis tools within CI/CD pipelines. - Use code analysis tools such as AWS X-Ray, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, etc. - Ability to work Eastern Standard Time Zone schedule but support customers in different regions. Benefits - Medical, dental, and vision health insurances. - Short term disability, long term disability and life insurances. - 401k with Company match. - Paid time off (PTO) (120 hours PTO that accrue over one year). - Paid time off for major holidays (14 days per year). - These and any other employee benefit offerings are subject to management’s discretion and may change at any time.