Solutions Architect

NewGen

$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • TS/SCI CI Poly Clearance required
  • IC Green Badge necessary
  • Experience conducting Well-Architected Reviews with a focus on reliability
  • Strong skills in workshop facilitation for resilience assessments and architecture reviews
  • Excellent communication for translating technical concepts into business value
  • Proficient in documentation of architectural decisions and resilience procedures
  • Experience in cross-functional collaboration with engineering and security teams

Responsibilities

  • Deliver resilient architectural designs tailored to customer workloads
  • Conduct Well-Architected Reviews focusing on reliability
  • Implement and validate resilience using chaos engineering
  • Establish operational runbooks, monitoring, and disaster recovery procedures

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a secure environment with TS/SCI CI Poly Clearance
  • Hands-on experience in a cutting-edge AWS environment
  • Possibility to influence resilience best practices across multiple teams
  • Exposure to regulated industries ensuring compliance and operational excellence
  • Mentorship opportunity, enhancing collaboration skills within customer teams
Full Job Description
This opportunity is anticipated to start at the beginning of August, ending at the end of July 2027. Candidates must be willing to work in SCIF at Herndon or Springfield, VA up to 100% of each week.

Responsibilities
  • Deliver resilient architecture designs (multi-AZ and/or multi-Region) tailored to customer workloads
  • Conduct Well-Architected Reviews focused on the Reliability Pillar
  • Implement and validate resilience through chaos engineering and game days
  • Establish operational runbooks, monitoring, and DR procedures

Requirements
  • TS/SCI CI Poly Clearance
  • IC Green Badge
  • Conducting Well-Architected Reviews with a Reliability Pillar focus
  • Workshop facilitation: resilience assessments, architecture reviews, and game days
  • Stakeholder communication - translating technical resilience concepts to business value
  • Documentation: architecture decision records (ADRs), resilience runbooks, SOPs
  • Customer relationship management and executive-level reporting
  • Cross-functional collaboration with customer engineering, security, and operations teams
  • Mentoring customer teams on resilience best practices and operational maturity

Desired Skills
  • Active customer accounts are preferred, but will ultimately require SBU, COE
  • AWS Resilience Hub hands-on experience (resilience assessment and policy management)
  • AWS Certifications: Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional
  • Experience in regulated industries (FedRAMP, IL4/IL5 environments)
  • Familiarity with NIST SP 800-160 (Systems Security Engineering) or DoD Mission Assurance frameworks
  • Experience with Service Control Policies (SCPs) and multi-account resilience governance
  • Experience with Orange and Purple Cloud PMO capabilities and Authorization Frameworks
  • Prior ProServe or consulting delivery experience with large enterprise customers
  • Hands-on experience with third-party resilience tooling (Gremlin, LitmusChaos)

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