Senior/Principal Solutions Architect - Advanced Engagement Systems, Onsite

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We are seeking a Solutions Architect who can fulfill the role of a platform and environment developer. For Platform development, the staff member will design, develop and maintain the underlying platform infrastructure on a variety of embedded RF hardware solutions which run Digital Signal Processing code on edge Linux systems. Ability to load, configure, and utilize operating systems, develop platform automation tools, design and configure networks, run static code analyzers, implement cyber security best practices, scripting and software development are all skills needed for the position. This role should have both breadth of knowledge and experience with multiple domains such as digital hardware (CPU, GPU, FPGA), Firmware, and Software. In this position, the Computer Engineer will interact with teammates, internal project leadership, and possibly external stakeholders to determine requirements and then work both with the team and individually to translate the requirements into integrated and secure automated solutions. They may be responsible for prototyping and documenting possible solutions within the project framework.

For Environment development, staff member will configure and manage RF laboratory equipment to include test beds comprised of full systems (User Interface server, embedded RF processing digital electronics, and RF Front End systems). This includes ensuring standup and maintain of development computers, servers running system code, and networking with the RF laboratory. Lastly continued improvement to the existing development environment (Gitlab and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment technologies) are needed.

Participation in a team environment is expected. The environment is highly collaborative and team-centric with broad support for professional development, strategic and project innovation, and traditional training.

The successful candidate will have the ability to provide automated platform solutions by synergizing researching technology fundamentals, testing and evaluating those hypotheses in a controlled test environment and then planning and implementing those solutions to satisfy requirements. Artifacts provided by this methodology include:

• State-of-the-art designs that are efficient, secure and meet present and future capacity.
• Understand architecture specifications and detailed design documentation to provide automated solutions.
• Planning and coordination of the installation and configuration of the solution.
  

The successful candidate must maintain and grow technical expertise in all areas of computing platforms including servers, storage, network devices, and security devices (SIEMs, ACSs, and firewalls), Operating Systems (Linux), and virtualization to facilitate:

• Continuous platform operations and troubleshooting time-sensitive issues.
• Evaluating and reporting on new platform technologies and recommending viable and scalable solutions for incremental enhancements.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite. Relocation will be provided for those that qualify.

$114,000 - $227,500

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field of Information Technology (IT) or related software or computer engineering degree.
• 5 years of experience in three or more desired qualifications.
• Ability to travel infrequently (once to twice per year, on average).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance
  

• Master's degree in relevant field of information technology or software/ engineering, plus 2 years of relevant IT experience.
• Experience working with Linux operating systems.
• Experience in Linux Systems administration.
• Experience programming in Python, bash (or similar languages).
• Experience in computer and network systems anomaly resolution, troubleshooting, or debugging.
• Experience with Ansible or similar technologies (Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc)
• Experience in computer and network systems analysis to determine system requirements, define system design, develop architectures, and assess functionality and performance.
• Experience in establishing and maintaining network infrastructures by performing network systems analysis, build and configuration, anomaly resolution, troubleshooting, or debugging.
• Experience with information assurance, including security information and event management, access control systems, firewalls and intrusion prevention technologies.
• Experience with systems engineering or systems architecture principles, artifacts, tools, and processes.
• Active TS or Q Security Clearance.
  

The Advanced Systems department (05334) develops multi-domain novel electromagnetic attack concepts and systems with an eye on low size, weight, and power constrained applications. Our customers include a variety of government organizations including the U.S Armed Forces, the Intelligence Community, and special operations Community. Our staff members have a diverse skills base including microwave circuit design, antenna design, signal analysis, digital signal processing, embedded software, and system designs comprised of the latest associated hardware. We partner across the laboratory and the group to bring on other critical skill sets to our multi-disciplinary team to include computer scientists, systems engineers, and cyber engineers. Our design challenges include system development (designing scalable systems, systems integration into host platforms, etc), understanding complex adversary systems and associated vulnerabilities, and signal analysis and generation of RF low probably of detect waveforms.

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

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