DDIL Infrastructure Architect — Edge/Zero-Trust (TS/SCI)

Accelera Solutions; Charleston, Washington (SC, District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accelera Solutions is seeking an on-site DDIL SME to guide secure mission services architecture in Charleston, SC or DC area. The role emphasizes Zero Trust, edge compute, and local autonomy for degraded connectivity, with TS/SCI clearance and CI polygraph eligibility.

The engineer will design policy enforcement points, PDPs, ICAM strategies, and secure data handling across disconnected environments while coordinating with government stakeholders and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph eligibility.
• Experience designing or fielding systems for denied/disrupted/ intermittent connectivity.
• Ability to translate constraints into technical requirements and testable criteria.
• Understanding of distributed systems, replication, caching and recovery.
• Experience with ICAM, identity services, and local attribute caching.
• Knowledge of data protection, PKI, and cross-domain interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Develop DDIL strategies, architectural roadmaps, and implementation plans.
• Define operational scenarios, connectivity constraints, and degraded service levels.
• Translate scenarios into local autonomy, bandwidth use, latency, and recovery requirements.
• Specify local identity, directory, and data protection capabilities.
• Architect local identity services, including virtual directories and caching.
• Establish caching of attributes, credential expiry, and policy updates when central services unavailable.
• Evaluate access control tradeoffs and offline operation.
• Design synchronization and reconnection approaches for data integrity.
• Define dependencies among applications, policy services, and key management.
• Assess data placement, replication, and protection across connected/disconnected environments.
• Create architecture diagrams, risk assessments, and phased implementation plans.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Zero Trust

Edge compute

ICAM

Policy Enforcement Points

Policy Decision Points

HA/Disaster recovery

Network impairment testing

HWIL testing

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Red Hat OpenShift

Job description

Accelera Solutions is seeking an on-site DDIL SME to guide secure mission services architecture in Charleston, SC or DC area. The role emphasizes Zero Trust, edge compute, and local autonomy for degraded connectivity, with TS/SCI clearance and CI polygraph eligibility.

The engineer will design policy enforcement points, PDPs, ICAM strategies, and secure data handling across disconnected environments while coordinating with government stakeholders and engineering teams.