Responsibilities

This is an opportunity for an experienced, driven software solutions architect to join a dynamic team working to implement and manage the FAA's highly-visible System Wide Information Management (SWIM) program as part of the NextGen transformation strategy.

Lead the reliability, performance and operations workstreams for the FAA System-Wide Information Management (SWIM) Flight Data Publication Service (SFDPS) program: define RMA improvement plans, implement SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs), lead incident response playbooks, and architect cloud-native solutions to meet FAA Efficiency Critical requirements during the migration.

Primary responsibilities

• Define and implement SRE program for SFDPS: set SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and runbooks tied to FAA Efficiency Critical objectives.
• Lead performance tuning, capacity planning, and high-availability design across containerized services.
• Design resilient architectures in the FAA cloud (multi-AZ, autoscaling, disaster recovery patterns).
• Drive CI/CD for safety- and compliance-focused deployments
• Define security controls and coordinate with Authorizing Officials and security SMEs to meet FedRAMP/FISMA and FAA baselines (hardening, secrets management, vulnerability scanning).
• Lead major incidents and postmortems; ensure permanent corrective actions to raise availability and maintainability.
• Provide architectural guidance, mentor mid/junior engineers, and represent the engineering team to stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree and 9 years of relevant professional experience. Substitutions: Any subsitutions are subject to further customer review and approvals
  • or Associates degree and 11 years of relevant professional experience
  • or Masters degree and 6 yars of total relevant experience.
• A strong engineering background in systems reliability, cloud operations, and container platforms.
• Hands-on experience developing and maintaining Java-based applications, including debugging, optimization, and refactoring.
• Proficiency in a language suited for high-throughput systems, such as Java, Go, Python, or .NET for backend development
• Deep experience with Red Hat/OpenShift, Kubernetes architecture, and container security best practices.
• Proven SRE experience: defining SLIs/SLOs, implementing monitoring/alerting, and incident management.
• Strong IaC and automation experience (Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines).
• Practical experience working with C and/or C++ components, especially in integration with Java or containerization scenarios.
• Proficient scripting ability in Python, Bash, or similar to automate build, deploy, and cloud operations workflows.
• Hands-on experience in a FedRAMP/Government cloud environment and working with federal security/compliance controls strongly preferred.
• Proven experience with at least one major message broker, such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS.
• Experience with data serialization formats, specifically JSON, XML, Avro, or Protobuf.
• Knowledge of messaging protocols like AMQP, MQTT, JMS, or STOMP.
• Understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub-sub, and point-to-point queues.
• Strong communication, leadership, and cross-team coordination skills; Agile experience (Scrum, SAFe) and prior role as technical lead or site reliability lead.
• U.S. citizen or Green Card Permanent Resident (3+ years ouf of the last 5 years U.S. residency).
• Ability to obtain and maintain FAA Suitability.

Desired Qualifications

• Certifications: CKA, RHCE, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (GovCloud), CISSP, or similar.
• Prior FAA or ATM systems experience is highly desirable.
• Experience with Cloud-based messaging services (e.g.AWS SNS/SQS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub).

Remote/hybrid status is subject to change based on Noblis and/or government requirements.

Total Rewards

At Noblis we recognize and reward your contributions, provide you with growth opportunities, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs. Our award programs acknowledge employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our service standards. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefit programs. Other offerings may be provided for employees not within this category. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Benefits page on our Careers site.

Compensation at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements and applicable employment laws. The projected compensation range for this position is based on full time status. For part time or on-call staff, compensation is proportionately adjusted based on hours worked. While monetary compensation is important, it's just one component of Noblis' total compensation package.

Posted Salary Range

USD $105,100.00 - USD $164,125.00 /Yr.