Data Architect (Cloud Infrastructure)

Location: Chantilly, Virginia, United States

Salary: $150,000–$250,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global delivers mission and technical expertise for national security and defense challenges, supporting customers across technology and operational domains.

What you will do

• Collect and exploit datasets from domestic and foreign social media platforms and mobile applications.
• Architect, design, and implement mission internet systems and operational data infrastructure.
• Configure AWS and/or Azure networking, security, logging, routing, backup and recovery, shared storage, and baseline images.
• Implement cloud-hosted Android emulation solutions and VPN tunnels between on-premises and cloud environments and across clouds.
• Conduct and document infrastructure fingerprinting, analyze technologies and system applicability, and brief technical review boards.
• Produce technical design documentation, including architecture and network diagrams, for operational use and board approval.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph, applicable to the customer.
• Demonstrated experience collecting and exploiting data from domestic and foreign social media platforms and mobile applications.
• Demonstrated experience architecting, designing, or implementing mission internet systems.
• Demonstrated experience configuring AWS and/or Azure networking, security, logging, routing tables, backup and recovery, shared storage, and baseline images.
• Demonstrated experience implementing cloud-hosted Android emulation solutions.
• Demonstrated experience configuring VPN tunnels between on-premises and cloud environments and between clouds, including multi-cloud obfuscation techniques.
• Demonstrated experience conducting and documenting infrastructure fingerprinting and briefing technical review boards on identified signatures.
• Demonstrated experience producing technical design documentation such as architecture and network diagrams.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing technologies, hardware, and software for applicability and requirements involving security, storage, and network technology.
• Ability to work independently in a high-visibility position.

Nice to have

• Experience triaging and troubleshooting data-transfer issues with enterprise partners.
• Experience leading technical teams and briefing technical and non-technical audiences for review board approvals.
• Experience with the customer’s full A&A lifecycle, security control responses and implementation, risk elements, and maintaining ATO status with project ISSE personnel.
• Experience working with customer managers, technical leads, and project managers to identify and develop system requirements considering desired results, hardware limitations, operating requirements, and sponsor-identified needs.
• Experience assisting with planning and managing infrastructure and exploitation platform projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive pay and comprehensive benefits supporting employees and their families.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus an HSA with company contribution.
• Annual paid time off, paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
• 401(k) with company match, financial wellness and retirement planning support.
• Training and development opportunities, award programs, and company-sponsored events.
• Focus on work-life balance and professional growth.