Job Type: Full-Time

Clearance: Minimum Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid holidays, professional training opportunities, and even pet insurance to ensure your furry friends are cared for too.

Job Summary:

Castalia Systems is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission-critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats.

Castalia Cybersecurity and Special Missions (CSM) is seeking a Sr. Google Cloud Architect to assess and develop cloud-based architectures and requirements and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts in the development of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Partnering with the Chief Engineer to develop advanced, leading-edge, cloud-oriented architectures that provide new cybersecurity capabilities to a major U.S. Government customer
• Partnering with Agile Scrum teams in the system design and implementation of advanced, cloud-oriented cybersecurity capabilities
• Interfacing directly with customers, stakeholders, and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop, and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level of education.
• 10+ years of applicable experience
• 2+ years of Google Cloud architecting experience
• Google Cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience
• Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading technical teams and projects
• Able to work effectively as a leader, in a group, or as an individual contributor
• Strong working knowledge of IT products and services
• Strong working knowledge of IT Service Operations
• Innovative, technical mindset
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and proven ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization
• Ability to analyze information and identify relevant facts
• Ability to shape opinions of key stakeholders and influence outcomes - Proven track record of achieving desired results
• Strong and diverse business and technical acumen
• Experience working with senior leadership including VP and Director levels

Desired Qualifications:

• DoD 8570.1 IAT Level II - AWS Cloud-related certifications
• Experience and familiarity with implementing and maintaining a Google Cloud environment
• Familiarity with the following technologies in a cloud environment: Elk Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana), Ansible, Nessus, ClamAV, AIDE, Splunk, DNS, NAT, git
• Azure Cloud and AWS Cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience - Influential communication and ability to achieve alignment
• Experience managing many people and projects - Experience working in an agile development environment
• Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience
• Experience working on projects that implement analytic models into production systems
• Experience with Google technologies, migrations to a Google environment, and the maintenance of a Google environment.
• Experience with Agile tools, including Jira and Jira Align
• Experience with Python/bash scripting

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

• Typical office environment.

Travel

• Not required.

Company Description

Castalia Systems is a proven business partner providing mission-critical solutions to the Federal Government. We provide cutting-edge solutions from Securing and Managing Data to Systems Engineering and Development. Castalia Systems is a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence Design and Application.

With our vast knowledge of our customers' needs and relevant technology, our team will bring successful solutions to every mission. We are one-upping our competitors by providing premium IT solutions and platforms with cutting-edge technology so it’s so evident when you compare us with anyone.

Disclaimer

Castalia Systems is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and strives to comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, HIV-positive status, as well as any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of the company are prohibited from engaging in this type of conduct.