Solutions Architect

NewGen

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

Qualifications

  • TS/SCI CI Poly Clearance required
  • IC Green Badge required
  • Expert in conducting Well-Architected Reviews focusing on Reliability
  • Experience in workshop facilitation for resilience assessments and architecture reviews
  • Strong stakeholder communication skills with technical and business translation
  • Proficient in documentation including architecture decision records and resilience runbooks
  • Experience in customer relationship management and executive-level reporting
  • Skilled in cross-functional collaboration with engineering, security, and operations teams

Responsibilities

  • Deliver resilient architecture designs tailored to customer workloads
  • Conduct Well-Architected Reviews focusing on the Reliability Pillar
  • Implement and validate resilience through chaos engineering and game days
  • Establish operational runbooks and monitoring procedures
  • Ensure effective disaster recovery procedures are in place

Benefits

  • Opportunity to start at the beginning of August and last until July 2027
  • Work in highly secure environments (SCIF) in Herndon or Springfield, VA
  • Potential 100% onsite work enhances team collaboration
  • Exposure to cutting-edge resilience engineering practices
  • Opportunity to mentor customer teams on best practices in resilience
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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