Applications Architect

Company: J5 Consulting
Location: Chantilly
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

J5 Consulting is a Maryland based company established in 2006 to provide computing and consulting services for government and commercial entities. Our services improve Information System networking performance and compliance, and protect electronic assets from loss and compromise. We welcome your application to receive consideration for the following position.This position requires an active TS/SCI clearance and full scope polygraph.Job DescriptionThe contractor shall design optimal application architectures for applications supported in the CI/CD pipeline which follow the Sponsor's standards, guidance and enterprise architecture. The contractor shall architect and design the Sponsor's corporate DevOps processes, services and tools that will enable rapid software development and deployment using continuous integration and continuous deployment techniques. The contractor shall create a plan for applications supported in the CI/CD pipeline, leveraging best of breed available cloud services, scaling, containers, security, micro-service architecture. The contractor shall continually evaluate the DevOps approach with current industry standards focusing on automation, security, and performance. The contractor shall define and document the DevOps process changes, governance, and standards. The contractor shall assist customer's identification, evaluation, and adoption of technologies to improve business applications and support operations. The contractor shall leverage enterprise and open source capabilities such as GitHub, Jenkins, Puppet, and Maven where possible. The contractor shall define a performance management plan to ensure success. The contractor shall provide key performance measurements to include items such as defect escape rate, deployment frequency, lead time for changes, and mean time to recovery. The contractor shall work with Sponsor to communicate DevOps architecture, approach, and roll-out plans. The contractor shall assist Sponsor to identify, evaluate and adopt technologies to improve business applications and support operations.RequiredJob Qualifications* Demonstrated experience with Agile Methodology* Demonstrated experience designing and implementing modern secure resilient applications Demonstrated experience implementing Security best practices* Demonstrated experience completing the ICD503 process* Demonstrated experience using AWS to include S3, Cloudformation, Lambda, RDS, VPC, CloudWatch, and EC2Education and Experience* Master's Degree in IT / Computer Science and 8 years experience or Bachelors Degree in IT / Computer Science and 10 years experienceSkills* Programming* Complex problem-solving* Critical thinking* Active listening* Quality control analysis* Judgment and decision-making* Operations analysis* Systems evaluationJ5 Consulting offers excellent benefits and compensation packages. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing fair and equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.Powered by JazzHRIIWmJXaeYc

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