DEFTEC Corporation

Lead architectural design and integration of scalable, resilient software and hardware solutions for defense clients, mentor teams, and promote architectural standards. | 4+ years architecture experience, leadership and mentorship skills, IAM expertise, Agile DevSecOps knowledge, documentation skills, familiarity with architectural modeling tools, and strong communication. | SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT DEFTEC delivers mission-critical solutions through skillfully delivered services and innovative products. We are inspired by our clients' critical missions and driven to provide the most effective solutions to execute their missions, operational challenges, and requirements. Our dedicated, experienced, and talented employees work closely with our clients to ensure the delivery of exceptional services and products. POSITION OVERVIEW A strategic and technically adept architecture leader with deep experience supporting mission-critical digital solutions within NATO and national defense environments. Proven expertise in designing and integrating scalable, resilient, and sustainable software and hardware architectures, while mentoring development teams and promoting consistent architectural practices. Skilled in aligning technology decisions with Agile and DevSecOps principles, conducting risk and trade-off analyses, and guiding the adoption of emerging technologies to enhance mission agility and relevance. Adept at balancing technical debt with long-term goals, advising on secure identity and access management (IAM), and advocating for architectural modeling standards and tools. Communicates complex technical concepts clearly to diverse stakeholders, enabling informed and mission-aligned decision-making. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: • Provide architectural leadership for innovative digital products developed in NATO or National defense institutions, ensuring solutions support mission requirements. • Oversee the design and integration of modern software and hardware architectures, ensuring scalability, resilience, and long-term sustainability. • Provide architectural mentorship to development teams, ensuring consistent application of design principles and practices across projects. • Collaborate with developers, engineers, and stakeholders to identify optimal technology approaches that enable Agile and DevSecOps practices. • Develop and maintain architectural documentation, including risk assessments, trade-off analyses, and implementation strategies. • Evaluate emerging technologies and guide their adoption where appropriate to improve agility, resilience, and mission relevance. • Balance technical debt, immediate mission requirements, and long-term sustainability in architectural decision-making. • Advise on identity and access management (IAM) design patterns to support secure and federated user access across systems. • Promote adoption of architectural modeling standards (UML, ArchiMate, BPMN) and tools (Enterprise Architect, Archi, ARIS, XMLSpy, etc.). • Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders to enable informed decision-making. Required Qualifications: • Minimum 4 years of experience in software and/or hardware architecture, including design patterns and paradigm shifts. • Experience leading cross-functional teams and providing mentorship in applying architectural principles. • Experience evaluating and integrating emerging technologies into operational systems. • Experience in modern Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution patterns. • Experience working in Agile DevSecOps teams with CI/CD practices and relevant certifications. • Experience developing documentation on technology solutions, including risk assessment, trade-offs, and implementation strategies. • Familiarity with architectural modeling standards (UML, ArchiMate, BPMN) and tools (Enterprise Architect, Archi, ARIS, XMLSpy, etc.). • Proven ability to communicate complex technical issues effectively to technical and non technical audiences. • Fluent in English (oral and written). DEFTEC offers a comprehensive whole-life benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, holiday, paid time off, 401K with a match, life insurance, short/long-term disability, and educational reimbursement. The DEFTEC team comprises professionals who make a difference daily in crucial national security missions. Our leadership knows that this happens by employing a diverse team that is well cared for. Our top priority is our employees, making DEFTEC an ideal workplace. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Please get in touch with HR@deftec.com if you require reasonable accommodations. DEFTEC is a Drug-Free Workplace where post-offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria are met as outlined in our policies. AAP/EEO Statement DEFTEC Corp is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, religious creed, disability (mental and physical) including HIV and AIDS, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics ), genetic information, age, marital status, civil union status, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, denial of family and medical care leave, arrest record and/or any other characteristic(s) protected by federal, state or local law. This policy applies to all terms of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, and general treatment during employment. Other Duties Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of the activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice. Job Posted by ApplicantPro

Deploy and operate containerized services with orchestration, automate infrastructure as code, implement SRE and observability, manage secure networking and service meshes, and support DevSecOps practices in cloud environments. | Minimum 4 years experience with containerization and orchestration, CI/CD pipeline design, Infrastructure as Code, cloud workload deployment, SRE and observability, secure networking, and Agile/DevSecOps frameworks. | DEVSECOPS ENGINEER DEFTEC delivers mission-critical solutions through skillfully delivered services and innovative products. We are inspired by our clients' critical missions and driven to provide the most effective solutions to execute their missions, operational challenges, and requirements. Our dedicated, experienced, and talented employees work closely with our clients to ensure the delivery of exceptional services and products. POSITION OVERVIEW A highly skilled infrastructure and DevOps professional with expertise in deploying and operating containerized services using orchestration frameworks to ensure scalability and resilience. Experienced in automating infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for consistent and repeatable environments, and managing workloads across cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, and OpenStack. Proficient in implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing. Adept at supporting high-throughput, service-oriented architecture and delivering capabilities in Agile and DevSecOps environments using frameworks like Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban. Demonstrated ability to design secure networking and service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd), enforce zero-trust security principles, manage compliance automation, and implement secure identity and access controls using secrets, tokens, certificates, and least-privilege access. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: • Deploy and operate containerized services using orchestration frameworks to ensure scalability and resilience. • Automate infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provide consistent and repeatable environments. • Deploy and monitor workloads in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, OpenStack). • Implement site reliability engineering (SRE) and observability practices to ensure resilience, monitoring, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing. • Support high-throughput and service-oriented architectures, ensuring resilient and scalable deployments. • Deliver incremental capabilities in Agile and DevSecOps environments following frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe, or Kanban. • Design and manage secure networking and service meshes (TLS, Istio, Linkerd, API gateways) to ensure encrypted and reliable service-to-service communication. • Apply zero-trust principles and compliance automation to enforce security policies and validate system compliance. • Manage identity and access using secure methods for secrets, tokens, certificates, and least-privilege access control. Required Qualifications: • Minimum 4 years of experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift). • Minimum 4 years of experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and security validation. • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Pulumi). • Experience deploying and securing workloads in hybrid/public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, OpenStack). • Experience implementing site reliability engineering and observability practices (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki, OpenTelemetry). • Experience implementing scalable, resilient, high-throughput systems and service oriented architectures. • Experience delivering capabilities in Agile/DevSecOps environments (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban). • Experience designing and managing secure networking and service mesh (TLS, Istio, Linkerd, API gateways). • DEFTEC offers a comprehensive whole-life benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, holiday, paid time off, 401K with a match, life insurance, short/long-term disability, and educational reimbursement. The DEFTEC team comprises professionals who make a difference daily in crucial national security missions. Our leadership knows that this happens by employing a diverse team that is well cared for. Our top priority is our employees, making DEFTEC an ideal workplace. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Please get in touch with HR@deftec.com if you require reasonable accommodations. DEFTEC is a Drug-Free Workplace where post-offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria are met as outlined in our policies. AAP/EEO Statement DEFTEC Corp is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, religious creed, disability (mental and physical) including HIV and AIDS, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics ), genetic information, age, marital status, civil union status, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, denial of family and medical care leave, arrest record and/or any other characteristic(s) protected by federal, state or local law. This policy applies to all terms of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, and general treatment during employment. Other Duties Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of the activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice. Job Posted by ApplicantPro