Solution Architect

StratasCorp

$170K — $200K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7-10 years of IT experience required.
  • 3+ years of experience with AWS infrastructure in relevant roles.
  • Experience in a senior support role with a focus on customer environment improvement.
  • Proven capability in conducting workshops to understand user needs.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS Wickr administration and configuration requirements.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguous environments and develop structured plans for service management.
  • Strong communication skills for interfacing with senior leadership and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Engage with end users and stakeholders to gather requirements and troubleshoot services.
  • Assess and document current messaging implementations to improve design.
  • Develop and document SOPs and knowledge articles for service operations.
  • Collaborate on integration challenges with security and networking teams.
  • Monitor service health, usage, and metrics to enhance user experience.
  • Plan and execute upgrades and configuration changes using change management processes.
  • Train internal teams on support processes and features of the services.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
  • Flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings accounts (HSA).
  • Disability and income protection benefits.
  • Life insurance policy coverage.
  • Paid personal time-off and holidays.
  • 401K savings plan with company matching contributions.
Full Job Description
Will engage with end users and customer stakeholders to gather requirements, troubleshoot issues with Wickr services and identify needs to improve customer support. Primary responsibilities: • Assess the current messaging and collaboration service implementation. • Document the "as-is" environment, and identify design improvements for scalability, reliability, and security. • Develop and document standard operating procedures (SOPs), runbooks, and knowledge articles for messaging and collaboration service operations and support. • Collaborate with security, networking, and collaboration/tooling teams on integration challenges (e.g., directory services, identity, logging, and monitoring platforms, etc.). • Monitor service health, usage, and capacity; implement alerting and reporting for key metrics. • Plan and execute upgrades, patches, and configuration changes, following change-management processes. • Provide training and guidance to internal help desk and engineering teams on features, policies, and support processes. • Act as primary technical liaison when advanced troubleshooting or roadmap input is needed. Job Requirements • 7-10 years overall IT experience. • 3+ years working with AWS infrastructure in a sysadmin, devops, or cloud engineering role. • Experience in a senior support, consulting, or technical account manager role where you led discovery, documented customer environments, and recommended improvements. • Experience running workshops or interviews to understand user adoption, pain points, and training needs. • Hands-on experience administering AWS Wickr and/or Wickr Enterprise (network admin, cluster admin, or similar role). • Ability to operate in ambiguous environments, perform discovery, and propose a structured plan to get from "unknown current state" to a well-documented, managed Wickr service. • Experience performing initial setup and ongoing configuration of Wickr networks, user provisioning, security policies, retention, and compliance settings. • Experience integrating Wickr with identity providers (IdP) such as Active Directory, Azure AD, Okta, or other SAML/OIDC services. • Experience operating secure collaboration or messaging platforms (e.g., Microsoft Teams, Slack Enterprise Grid, Signal/other E2EE tools) in regulated or high-security environments. • Experience troubleshooting real-time communication issues: connectivity, media quality, federation, client configuration, and endpoint problems. • Strong communication skills capable of communicating technical concepts to senior leadership and customer stakeholders. Certifications • Security+ CE (Required) One of the following Associate level AWS certifications is Required: • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or • AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate This position supports work located in Chesapeake, VA. Some travel to that area may be required. The anticipated salary range for this role is $170,000 to $200,000 annually. The anticipated salary range for this position is provided in accordance with applicable pay transparency laws. The final starting salary will be determined based on a variety of job-related factors, including the selected candidate's qualifications, skills, relevant experience, education, certifications, and work location (where applicable), as well as internal equity and market considerations. Security Clearance Secret Certification Required Security+ (CE) Job Type Full-time StratasCorp provides a complete compensation package with competitive wages and benefits that include medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA & HSA accounts, disability and other income protection benefits, life insurance, paid personal time-off benefits, paid holidays, and a 401K Saving Plan with a company matching contribution.

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