Job Description

About Sandia:

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov*These benefits vary by job classification.

What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking an onsite Solutions Architect to join our dynamic team. The selected candidate will be responsible for a breadth of hardware and platform skills to include design and architecture of cloud native - on prem type systems, hardware procurement, hardware/system installation and setup, platform automation, as well as test and deployment of high consequence ground systems. The successful candidate will interact and partner with a team of Information Technology (IT) experts, software developers, integration and test engineers.

Salary Range:

$95,400 - $185,700

*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

Qualifications We Require:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field and five (5) years of relevant experience; OR a Master's degree and one (1) year of relevant experience.
• Experience in architecting IT solutions to address customer requests and meeting requirements for complexity, scalability, and availability of solutions.
• Experience in configuration, installation, maintenance, and administration in at least two of the following:
• Linux servers
• Virtualized environments
• System networking
• System automation and automation tools
• Wide-ranging and in-depth experience with, expert knowledge of, and demonstrated ability to apply information systems technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to use computer science principles dealing with complexity, scalability, robustness, integrity, correctness, and protocols.
• Ability to review and understand end-to-end work processes.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance.

Qualifications We Desire:

• Self-motivated and team oriented with good arbitration and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with COTS make/buy decisions.
• Understanding of Computer Platform Engineering disciplines, particularly requirements.
• Experience with system development lifecycle.
• Experience with software defined platforms and networks.
• Experience with configuration management principals and tools.
• Experience with platform automation technologies and tools such as Ansible, cloud, and container technologies.
• Experience with large scale satellite ground systems
• Active DOE Q clearance

About Our Team:

The "System and Software Engineering Solutions" department is a capability based organization that architects, develops, integrates, tests, and deploys large highly reliable mission critical systems. We have expertise in R&D and Information Technology across many disciplines including large-scale software engineering, computer science, and computer engineering. Our specific capabilities include computer hardware/software architectures, system administration/networking, cyber security, failover/redundancy, continuous integration, system integration/verification, and performance assessment, automation, container orchestration, and cloud architecture. We bring to bear these capabilities to innovate high-rigor solutions while supporting existing critical customer needs. Responsibilities will include support for nonproliferation and national security missions for the US Nuclear Detonation Detection System.

Posting Duration:

This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

Security Clearance:

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.

EEO:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.

NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs:

If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.

If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.

Job ID: 693704

Job Family: IT

Regular/Temporary Position: R

Full/Part-Time Status: F