Senior Systems Architect – Federal Cloud & Security

A-TEK Inc.; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

paid time off

professional development opportunities

Job summary

A-TEK, Inc. is seeking a Systems Architect to provide independent technical oversight of infrastructure, cloud, security, and configuration management for NIH-focused programs.

The role requires reviewing OCI architectures, ensuring security and performance, and guiding operational handoffs in a Rockville, MD on-site setting. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in infrastructure/security architecture, with deep OCI experience and a track record in federal environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, cybersecurity, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of relevant infrastructure, cloud, security, or systems architecture experience.
• At least five years of experience as a systems, infrastructure, cloud, or security architect.
• Experience reviewing enterprise systems hosted in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, identity management, encryption, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Knowledge of security architecture, configuration management, and vulnerability management.
• Experience evaluating contractor technical performance and deliverables.
• Experience preparing architecture findings, risk assessments, and executive recommendations.
• Ability to work independently and communicate with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience supporting federal or other regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Review Oracle Cloud Infrastructure architectures, configurations, and planned changes.
• Assess infrastructure designs for security, availability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Review cloud hosting, network, identity, access, logging, monitoring, backup, and recovery controls.
• Evaluate configuration changes before or after implementation, as directed.
• Confirm that teams document approved configurations and operational procedures.
• Review the transition of completed projects into operations and maintenance.
• Verify that O&M documentation reflects current configurations and operating practices.
• Assess infrastructure and security risks affecting internal NIH applications.
• Review compliance with NIH, HHS, federal, and program technical standards.
• Evaluate vulnerabilities, proposed remediations, and risk-response activities.
• Identify architecture gaps, technical debt, unsupported components, and operational dependencies.
• Review incidents and root-cause analyses involving infrastructure or security.
• Conduct technical market research and alternatives analyses.
• Recommend infrastructure, security, and cloud investments.
• Present findings, risks, and recommendations to NIH leadership.
• Collaborate with Government personnel and contractors without assuming an operational delivery role.

Skills

Independent work

Stakeholder communication

Security awareness

Federal environment experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, cybersecurity, or a related field

Tools

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle Database

Oracle APEX

Job description

A-TEK, Inc. is seeking a Systems Architect to provide independent technical oversight of infrastructure, cloud, security, and configuration management for NIH-focused programs.

The role requires reviewing OCI architectures, ensuring security and performance, and guiding operational handoffs in a Rockville, MD on-site setting. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in infrastructure/security architecture, with deep OCI experience and a track record in federal environments.