Principal Systems Architect

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Have you ever wanted to work at a company with other like-minded hard workers supporting national security issues? If you're seeking a reputable mid-size company with the pay, benefits, and energy of a Fortune 100 company, then Railhead is for you.

We surround ourselves with top talent across the DoD, Intelligence Community, and commercial sector. Whether you're working on-site at one of Railhead's corporate locations around the globe, or at a customer site, we inspire a culture of fun and creativity while performing some of our Nation's most critical and impactful work.

Program Summary :

The Defense Enclave Services (DES) program supports a highly demanding mission and requires expert technical and professional management support to DISA enterprise Information Technology (IT) services.

You will be working in a large and complex IT consolidation, migration and modernization effort towards a Single Server Provider model that provides sustainment, maintenance, Problem and Change management services to help ensure secure, reliable and uninterrupted availability of the Department of Defense networks and services.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Establishes system information requirements using analysis of the information engineer(s) in the development of enterprise-wide or large-scale information systems.
• Determines and identifies high level functional and technical requirements based on interactions with the user community and knowledge of the enterprise architecture.
• Designs architecture to include the software, hardware and communications to support the total requirements as well as provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces.
• Identifies, assesses, and presents options for meeting the functional and technical requirements including hardware and software updates or upgrades.

Responsible for developing high level system design diagrams.

Ensures these systems are compatible and in compliance with the standards for open systems architectures, the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) and International Standards Organization (ISO) reference models, and profiles of standards - such as Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Open Systems Environment (OSE) reference model - as they apply to the implementation and specification of Information Management (IM) solution of the application platform, across the application program interface (API), and the external environment / software application.

Ensures that the common operating environment is compliant.

• Evaluates analytically and systematically problems of work flows, organization and planning and develops appropriate corrective action.
• Provides daily supervision and direction to staff.

Basic Qualifications :

• Possess a current Secret clearance or above
• MA / MS in a technical or managerial discipline with 10 years of experience relevant to the position responsibilities.
• At least one of the following certifications is required : CSSP Incident Responder, CSSP Auditor, or CSSP Manager.

About Railhead :

• Railhead, Inc. is a leader in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; advanced cyber solutions; cloud and managed IT solutions;
• engineering, and information-based solutions for law enforcement and homeland security. We provide training and logistics in support of readiness operations;

and operational support services and solutions in support of organizations not limited to DHS, DoD, and the Intelligence Community (IC).

We hire mission enablers whom reflect our communities and proactively embrace diversity and inclusion, in order to advance our corporate culture, develop our family of employees into the best they can be, and in turn grow our market share throughout industry.

Railhead, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.

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