Sr Cloud Engineer for Ground Systems

Responsibilities

• Provide essential technology subject matter expertise to the Aerospace/US Government program office team to guide development of future FORGE Mission Data Processing (MDP) capabilities, including framework and software releases
• Serve as a member of the trusted team of FORGE team representatives to the operations community. Support acquisition program office responses, engagements, and discussions with operations.
• Integrate efforts across FORGE thrust area development activities, including FORGE Framework, FORGE Processing, FORGE C2, and future hosted tenants, to ensure consistency and operational suitability.
• Execute technical trades defining/refining future FORGE MDP technical program roadmaps and acquisition plans.
• Represent Aerospace in program meetings and technical forums such as design reviews, technical interchanges, and site-specific meetings.
• Work independently with both internal and external customers and with technical support as a technical authority and consultant.
• Organize Aerospace's technical efforts to deliver next-generation OPIR capabilities to operations.
• Participate in program status assessments and independent risk assessments that inform Government and Aerospace management of problems and perceived technical problems and recommend courses of action (COA development).
• Provide on-site Aerospace presence and communicate with the customer, SETA, SE&I, and contractors.
• Collaborate with SETA, SE&I, and government customer counterparts to meet mission needs.
• What You Need to be Successful:
• Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in STEM, Engineering or Science
• 6 years of ground systems, cloud engineering or related engineering experience.
• Proven track record of integrating effort between development and operations for newly fielded systems.
• Strong background in leading teams in ground systems, software development and cloud engineering
• Demonstrated experience in engineering and security of cloud-native architectures and mission-critical systems
• Experience in designing, developing, deploying, operating, and evolving cloud infrastructures and platforms to support customers
• Familiarity with cloud-native application architectures for building reliable, scalable, observable, and secure distributed application

Benefits

Additional Information

The Aerospace Corporation is the trusted partner to the nation's space programs, solving the hardest problems and providing unmatched technical expertise. As the operator of a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), we are broadly engaged across all aspects of space- delivering innovative solutions that span satellite, launch, ground, and cyber systems for defense, civil and commercial customers. When you join our team, you'll be part of a special collection of problem solvers, thought leaders, and innovators. Join us and take your place in space. Information Systems and Cyber Division (ISCD) staff couple the latest in information system technologies, such as elastic compute clouds, containerization, microservices, real-time operating systems, and visualization frameworks, with expertise in cyber security, software architecture, software engineering, data science, Artificial Intelligence, process improvement, and software development to deliver responsive, resilient, high-performance software intensive systems to our Intelligence Community, DoD, and civilian customers. We are looking for a Cloud Engineer for Ground Systems (Engineering Specialist - Software Architecture Engineering and Cloud Computing Architecture) to join our Colorado-based Engineering Technology Group supporting SSC FORGE acquisition efforts. The forward deployed position will execute key aspects of Aerospace's FORGE acquisition lifecycle support, from ground system design through operations acceptance and handoff to sustainment, for all Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) program thrust areas. The Ground System Cloud Engineer will work across the program office to deliver next-generation overhead persistent infrared (OPIR) ground processing capabilities, with heavy emphasis toward adopting on-premises and commercial cloud architecture concepts, to operations. The Ground System Cloud Engineer will be responsible for developing trusted working relationships with stakeholders across the FORGE acquisition program office, operations/operations-supporting organizations, and legacy program personnel to facilitate these activities. The Ground System Cloud Engineer will serve as a subject matter expert on current and to-be fielded FORGE/next-generation OPIR ground capabilities; integrate next-generation cloud-native software solutions; and will provide trusted technical expertise to solicit stakeholder needs, communicate planned capabilities to address stakeholder concerns, and resolve problems as needs arise. Work Model: This is a fulltime position that requires on-site work at designated site locations, primarily at Buckley SFB in Aurora, CO or BGIF in Boulder, CO,

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