Analytica is looking for a hands-on lead AWS Solution Architect to lead designing, implementing, and continuing to improve a large scale, enterprise AWS-based platform underpinning mission critical, public facing services for a leading homeland security client. This architect leads end-to-end DevSecOps architecture, automation, and CI/CD design for enterprise identity, scheduling, and biometrics applications hosted primarily in AWS, with integrated AI/ML,data analytics, and entity resolution capabilities. The role provides technical leadership to multi-disciplinary Agile teams and drives the "zero-trust," "automation-first," and "infrastructure as code" principles across the program.
Key Responsibilities - Lead DevSecOps initiatives, including architecture, automation, monitoring, testing, and CI/CD pipelines for large-scale, multi-cloud and on-premises platforms.
- Architect, design, and implement production enterprise applications in AWS cloud platforms that leverage AI/ML.
- Design scalable, secure, and resilient platforms that meet USCIS performance and availability targets (99.9% uptime; 24/7 platform availability).
- Architect infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and AWS-native capabilities to ensure consistent and secure environments.
- Integrate security and code quality scanning (Checkmarx, SonarQube, NexusIQ, Prisma Cloud) into the CI/CD pipeline and enforce secure configurations for cloud resources.
- Guide integration of AI/ML models into DevSecOps workflows and manage data architectures for transactions and analytical solutions.
- Guide platform monitoring, observability, incident response, and disaster recovery; support 24x7 / 15-minute incident response and MTTR of 90 minutes or less for internal code faults.
- Enable serverless, containerized microservices patterns (AWS Lambda, EKS, Kubernetes, Rancher, Docker) and support SPA/MPA DevSecOps practices.
- Support authentication and identity architecture aligned to NIST SP 800-63-3, SP 800-63A/B/C (AAL 1-3, FAL 1-3), including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, PKCE, SAML, TOTP, and WebAuthN.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to DevSecOps engineering teams;
Required Qualifications - US Citizen with the ability to secure a public trust clearance
- Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering or related technical field; Masters a Plus
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional (Required).
- 10+ years of experience in the Information Technology field focusing on development projects, DevSecOps, AI/ML engineering projects, and technical architecture, of which three (3) years shall be in architecture, design, and production enterprise applications in cloud platforms using AI/ML, specifically in AWS.
- Proven Experience leading large scale enterprise DevSecOps initiatives including architecture, automation, and CI/CD pipelines for large-scale, multi-cloud and on-premises platforms.
- Demonstrated experience with the AWS services EC2, S3, Aurora, RDS, OpenSearch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Lambda, Kinesis, EKS, KMS.
- Demonstrated experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Harness, and Backstage.
- Knowledge of federal security and compliance standards (e.g., FISMA, FedRAMP) and experience supporting ATO process
Preferred Qualifications - Experience with DHS Enterprise Architecture Technical Reference Model (TRM) and IPv6 (USGv6) compliance.
- Prior DHS or large federal civilian cloud platform experience.
