Responsibilities
Peraton is seeking a Systems Architect (Senior) to support the MODES III program supporting Military Community and Family Policy (MC&FP). In this role, the selected candidate will provide enterprise systems architecture leadership for the program, designing end‑to‑end system, cloud, network, and service architectures that meet MC&FP operational, security, scalability, and RMF/ATO requirements. This position is remote and requires an active Secret clearance.
JOB DESCRIPTION
- Provide enterprise systems architecture leadership for MODES III, designing end‑to‑end system, cloud, network, and service architectures that meet MC&FP operational, security, scalability, and RMF/ATO requirements.
- Architect integrated solutions: produce DoDAF/enterprise architecture artifacts, system interaction diagrams, solution blueprints, and deployment reference architectures that support O&E, IT, cybersecurity, and data operations.
- Define cloud and infrastructure strategy: design secure, compliant AWS GovCloud architectures (VPC, networking, KMS, IAM, isolation for IL2/IL4/IL5), container orchestration patterns (EKS), and IaC standards (Terraform/CloudFormation) to enable scalable, auditable deployments.
- Drive cross‑domain integration: specify API contracts, data flows, integration patterns, and interface standards (OpenAPI, DCAT) ensuring interoperability between applications, CMS, data lakes, and third‑party services; provide guidance to Integration and API teams.
- Embed security & RMF into architecture: define security controls, STIG/SRG hardening patterns, logging/observability requirements, and RMF artifact requirements for system design; coordinate with CCM/SDEL to ensure ATO readiness and eMASS submissions.
- Enable resilience & continuity: design backup/DR/COOP strategies, HA patterns, multi‑AZ deployment, immutable backup approaches, and recovery orchestration to meet RTO/RPO targets and validate through exercises.
- Define operational observability & KPI mapping: specify telemetry, logging, and metrics schemas that feed MODES III dashboards (program deliverables), ensuring lineage from source systems to executive KPIs and program performance standards/quality thresholds mapping.
- Guide technology selection & standards: evaluate and recommend platform, middleware, database, and tooling choices (cloud services, DB engines, message buses) aligned to DoD CC SRG and cost/performance tradeoffs; establish architecture governance and review boards (CCB participation).
- Familiar with: Active Directory/Azure AD, Microsoft Entra ID, Group Policy, SCCM/WSUS, VMware vSphere/Nutanix, Hyper‑V, RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu, AWS Systems Manager, Terraform, Ansible, IAM/KMS, DNS/DHCP, LDAP, BGP/OSPF/VLAN, SAN/NAS, Veeam/N2WS, Splunk/ELK, STIG/SCAP/ACAS, PKI/CAC, PowerShell/Python/Bash.
Qualifications
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