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Become an integral part of a diverse team while working at an Industry Leading Organization, where our employees come first. At ManTech International, you’ll help protect our national security while working on innovative projects that offer opportunities for advancement.

Currently, ManTech is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Lead SME Cloud Architect (Computer Systems Engineer/Architect) to join our team. This is a Remote position.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead Multi-Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, and Salesforce) and DevSecOps platform architecting, engineering, and 24 x 7 operations, and teams supporting these services, for a large DHS component agency.

• Lead engineering and operations services to implement/support the interconnectivity between the cloud service providers and the applications functioning in these environments, as well as the integration of Artificial Intelligence solutions, and use of Site Reliability Engineering.

• Lead the application of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) automation tools to provision and manage change in the multi-cloud environment, to include Python Lambda functions, Cloud Formation, Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), ArgoCD, Terraform, Helm Charts, and Vault Secrets Management.

• Support Multi-Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) to track, report, and optimize cloud cost spend and usage.

• Support mission critical systems that are being hosted in commercial clouds. •Support programmatic provisioning capabilities offered by commercial cloud service providers and utilize a CI/CD pipeline.

• Support the interconnectivity between cloud service providers and applications living in these environments.

• Develop and maintain the DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines.

• Support system teams in setting up their accounts and train on pipeline functionality.

• Support cloud service catalog offerings, Cloud Formation Templates, Cloud Automation (e.g., Chef, Ansible), standardized virtual machine images.

• Support cloud functions for Containerization, Changed Data Capture, and API Management (e.g. EKS, Rancher, Docker, ArgoCD, Grafana, ECR, and Kafka).

• Develop the network connectivity and foundational infrastructure services to prepare for building or moving a system to the cloud.

• Perform data collection and analysis of cloud configurations to determine the most optimal configurations for each system.

• Develop a Single DevSecOps strategy and a single Cloud Management Console across all clouds and on-prem to improve efficiency.

• Perform data collection and analysis of cloud costs to validate the monthly billing and to determine if a system is utilizing the best methods and options for minimizing the system’s cost.

• Build, maintain, or move applications within any of the Commercial Clouds to include AWS, Azure, and Google.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of five (5) years of concurrent experience with architecting IT solutions using DevOps methodologies in multi-cloud environments, inclusive of Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Azure cloud environments.

• Certification as an Amazon Solutions Architect Professional.

• Experience as an enterprise solution architect.

• Expertise in remote and office-based user integration, as well as hybrid cloud architecture, to include cross-cloud connectivity.

• Experience in evaluation and analysis of workloads that are running in public and private cloud environments.

• Extensive experience with cloud security and cloud network engineering

• Significant experience with managing using DevOps concept.

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills required.

• Proficient in supporting tools such as or similar to: Chef Build automation tool comprised of Chef Server, Chef Automate, Chef Habitat, Chef Client, Chef Knife, Cookbooks stored in Git. Ansible Tower – Build automation tool for several of our major and non-major applications. Jenkins – Orchestration tool, or equivalent (e.g., Harness CI/CD/STO), used to execute the jobs to initiate a server or environment build for our major and non-major systems. Git – Source code repository and documentation repository for all our cloud-based systems.

• Significant experience in using the Agile Methodology of managing IT Project Teams.

• Must have strong critical thinking, complex problem solving, appropriate judgment, and decision-making skills and possess superior technical aptitude and effective written and verbal communications skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related field

• Cloud Certifications with Azure, AWS, Google, and FinOps Certified Engineer

• Experience: ServiceNow, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, CloudCheckr, and AWS native cost optimization tools.

• Experience with ITIL, DevSecOps and Agile Scrum work planning and delivery frameworks.

• Experience with Artificial Intelligence.

• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

• Experience supporting Government contracts

Clearance Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen

• A current Public Trust clearance is preferred

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%

• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer

• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.