Cloud Solution Architect (Experienced, Senior or Lead)

Company:

The Boeing Defense Space & Security (BDS) organization Intelligence Systems portfolio is seeking a Cloud Solution Architect (Experienced Senior or Lead) to join our Mission Operations team in Herndon VA.

Our team focuses on delivering complex solutions in some of the most challenging environments on Earth. We provide support for our Mission Operations Portfolio area which design build test deploy operate and maintain a wide variety of mission critical platforms and systems for commercial and government customers.

This Cloud Engineer position performs cloud design architecture automated buildouts monitoring and enhancements to meet business requirements. This position is critical to the success of a new greenfield development effort that will be hosted on the cloud. The position will be assisting with deploying cloud resources with automation and ensuring security reliability and performance requirements are met/exceeded.

Position Responsibilities:

• Design build and maintain cloud infrastructure to meet availability scalability and performance requirements

• Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools

• Harden cloud security and manage identity/access (IAM least privilege key/secret management)

• Implement observability: logging metrics tracing alerts and dashboards (Prometheus/Grafana CloudWatch)

• Architect and operate resilient network and compute patterns (VPCs load balancers autoscaling multiAZ)

• Optimize cost and capacity: tagging rightsizing budget alerts and capacity planning

• Implement backup DR and incident response processes; conduct postmortems and corrective actions

• Manage container platforms and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS)

• Produce and maintain runbooks documentation and automation to enable developer selfservice

• Maintaining accurate documentation of system configurations procedures and troubleshooting steps

• Participating in the planning and implementation of new systems upgrades and migrations ensuring compatibility and adherence to best practices

• Staying up to date with the latest technologies industry trends and security practices and continuously improving skills and knowledge

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• This position requires an active TS/SCI U.S. Security Clearance and current FSP (Full Scope Polygraph) (U.S. Citizenship Required). (A U.S. Security Clearance that has been active in the past 24 months is considered active.)

• Level 3: 3 years of related work experienceor an equivalent combination of education and experience

• 3 years of experience in Cloud Engineering

• Experience with IaC tooling and automation

• Experience designing cloud solutions

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Level 4: 5 years of related work experienceor an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Level 5: 10 years of related work experienceor an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Associate degree or higher in a relevant field

• AWS Experience

• Certifications in AWS Azure and/or GCP

Conflict of Interest:

Successful candidates for this job must satisfy the Companys Conflict of Interest (COI) assessment process.

Contract Program Award:

The position is contingent upon The Boeing Company receiving program award for a proprietary program.

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana cocaine opioids amphetamines PCP and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs generally including health insurance flexible spending accounts health savings accounts retirement savings plans life and disability insurance programs and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications as well as market and business considerations.

Summary pay range for Experienced (Level 3): $125800.00 - $170200.00

Summary pay range for Senior (Level 4): $153000.00 - $207000.00

Summary pay range for Lead (Level 5): $184450.00 - $249550.00

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Contingent Upon Award Program

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