Senior Enterprise Architect – Secure 24/7 Infra & DR

Medium; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 113,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Eleven Federal Holidays

Parental Leave

Job summary

PingWind is seeking an Enterprise Architect in Huntsville, AL to provide architecture leadership for mission-critical, secure infrastructure with 24/7 operations. You will translate mission, security, and availability requirements into scalable architectures and technical roadmaps.

SECRET clearance is required. You will design scalable backup/recovery, virtualization, and continuity capabilities using VMware, OpenShift, and enterprise storage, aligning with DoD standards and risk management

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, IT, systems engineering or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Senior-level enterprise architecture and systems engineering for 24/7, high-availability environments.
• SECRET security clearance.
• Hands-on experience with VMware ESXi/vCenter/vSphere/vSAN and OpenShift.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture recommendations across ESXi hosts, VMs, OpenShift, VDI, and storage.
• Provide architecture guidance for virtual infrastructure and highly available enterprise services.
• Define backup/recovery architectures using Cohesity, Dell PowerProtect, VM Replication, and vSAN.
• Define integration patterns for protection and recovery services with S3, REST, NDMP, and application-aware agents.
• Lead business continuity, disaster recovery, and COOP planning architecture.
• Ensure compliance with Army IM&T cybersecurity standards and DoD guidance.
• Create architecture diagrams and roadmaps for government leaders.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Senior systems engineering

VMware vSAN/ESXi

OpenShift

VDI

Windows Server

Linux/RHEL

Backup & DR

DoD security

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Cohesity

Dell PowerProtect

VMware vCenter

Job description

PingWind is seeking an Enterprise Architect in Huntsville, AL to provide architecture leadership for mission-critical, secure infrastructure with 24/7 operations. You will translate mission, security, and availability requirements into scalable architectures and technical roadmaps.

SECRET clearance is required. You will design scalable backup/recovery, virtualization, and continuity capabilities using VMware, OpenShift, and enterprise storage, aligning with DoD standards and risk management