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Jacobs Senior Solutions Architect in Chantilly, Virginia
Founded in 2015, Knack Works, based out of Northern Virginia, was formed to address the demand for cutting-edge development environments within the intelligence community. Knack Works is focused on providing scalable, automated solutions that enable our customers to perform their national security missions in an ever-changing environment of new technologies and evolving threats. Our flagship product, the "Knack Stack," introduces flexible and automated hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service for cloud-agnostic deployments and automation. It's designed to automate data management and security. Today, we operate independently as Knack Works, a subsidiary of Jacobs. We are fortunate to retain our identity as a small business, yet with support from a large company.
If you are passionate about formulating new solutions, live for problem-solving, enjoy working with a diverse technical team, and thrive in a complex technical environment then read on! The right candidate needs to be a team-centric leader with a growth and innovation mindset in a culture that fosters collaboration and camaraderie. As a leader, this position plays a critical role in a variety of areas: technical management, software delivery, infrastructure architecture and deployment, and end-to- end system solutions. As a technical team lead, in conjunction with Program leadership, this role provides technical delivery leadership, technical business, resource, and client management for multiple software development infrastructure projects or programs.
Must be willing to work on-site in Northern Virginia
Possess TS/SCI with Full Scope Poly
10 years of experience managing the development of DevSecOps development environments and systems in the IC, DoD, Federal Government, or commercial entities
10 years of experience with technical solutions for complex highly integrated systems
Experience with software platform infrastructure, architecture development, and deployment
Must have extensive experience with the design, development, testing, implementation, and governance of web applications, APIs, software application programming frameworks, pipelines, and platforms
Experience with managing projects using various SDLC models, CMMI, SAFe, Agile, cloud-enabled solutions, architecture development, and "As a Service" offerings
Experience building and managing container environments (Kubernetes, Docker) hosted on Cloud Services (AWS, GCP, AZURE) or hardware-based implementations, including virtualized environments on host machines
Experience with infrastructure and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef or Foreman
Experience leading project teams
Strong communication collaboration
Experience as a trusted technical advisor
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