Overview
Current Enterprise Architect opening at Api Lever Co Opportunities in Huntsville, AL. Full employer-published role information has been imported from the public Lever posting.
Full job description
Full opportunity description
Location: Huntsville, AL Required Clearance: SECRET Required Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, systems engineering, engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered. Required Experience: Senior-level enterprise architecture and systems engineering experience designing secure, highly available infrastructure, virtualization, storage, backup/recovery, and disaster-recovery solutions in large or mission-critical environments.
Position Description
PingWind is seeking an Enterprise Architect to provide architecture leadership for PAE Fires enterprise systems, virtualization, storage, backup/recovery, and continuity capabilities. This role will translate mission, security, interoperability, availability, and recovery requirements into scalable architectures and technical roadmaps that support secure 24/7 operations, resilient infrastructure, and successful disaster recovery and COOP execution.
Responsibilities
Typical Responsibilities/Tasks: • Develop and maintain enterprise and system architecture recommendations spanning ESXi hosts, virtual machines/appliances, Red Hat OpenShift, VDI, Windows/Linux platforms, storage, applications, backup/recovery, and supporting infrastructure dependencies. • Perform system analysis and design and provide architecture guidance for establishing and sustaining virtual infrastructure and highly available enterprise services. • Architect scalable backup and recovery solutions compatible with Linux NFS, Windows SMB, the existing Enterprise SAN, Cohesity, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, VMware Replication, and vSAN environments. • Define integration patterns for policy-driven protection and recovery services, including vProxy, DD Boost, NDMP, REST APIs, S3-compatible object storage, VMware vCenter/vSphere, and application-aware protection for platforms such as SQL Server. • Establish architecture approaches that support defined Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), service-level expectations, enterprise growth, and long-term retention requirements. • Lead or support Business Impact Analysis, risk management, contingency planning, continuity planning, and disaster-recovery architecture recommendations across the enterprise. • Recommend high-availability and redundancy strategies appropriate to system impact levels, including load balancing, data mirroring, replication, and recovery/restoration approaches. • Support development, review, testing, and continuous improvement of contingency, business continuity, disaster recovery, and COOP reconstitution plans; document findings and recommendations in required technical products. • Ensure architecture recommendations align with applicable Army IM&T and cybersecurity standards and contingency guidance, including AR 25-1, AR 25-2, AR 500-3, and applicable NIST guidance.
Required Qualifications
• Demonstrated enterprise architecture or senior systems engineering experience in mission-critical IT environments requiring high availability and 24/7 operational support. • Strong architecture knowledge of VMware ESXi/vCenter/vSphere/vSAN, virtual machines, VDI, Windows Server, Linux/RHEL, and container or OpenShift platforms. • Experience designing enterprise storage, SAN, backup, replication, recovery, and long-term retention solutions across physical and virtual workloads. • Hands-on knowledge of enterprise backup/recovery platforms such as Cohesity and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, including interoperability with NFS, SMB, vProxy, DD Boost, NDMP, REST, S3-compatible storage, and application-aware agents. • Experience defining and validating RPO/RTO targets, high-availability patterns, redundancy, failover, restoration testing, and disaster-recovery/COOP capabilities. • Ability to produce architecture diagrams, technical recommendations, standards, roadmaps, and decision support for Government technical leaders and cross-functional teams. • Working knowledge of Army/DoD security, continuity, and system-management requirements applicable to enterprise infrastructure. • SECRET security clearance.
Desired Qualifications
• TOGAF, DoDAF, or comparable enterprise architecture experience or certification. • VMware VCP/VCAP, Red Hat, storage, or enterprise backup/recovery certifications. • Experience supporting Army/DoD continuity planning, Business Impact Analysis, disaster-recovery testing, and COOP reconstitution. • Experience architecting infrastructure across classified and unclassified environments.
About PingWind
PingWind is focused on delivering outstanding services to the federal government. We have extensive experience in the fields of cybersecurity, development, IT infrastructure, supply chain management and other professional services such as system design and continuous improvement. PingWind is an SBA certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) with offices in Northern Virginia and Huntsville AL. www.PingWind.com
Our benefits include:
· Eleven Federal Holidays · Paid Time Off accrued each pay period · Parental Leave · Three medical plan choices with generous employer contribution · Dental and Vision Insurance · Company paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability · Company paid Life and AD&D Insurance · 401k with competitive matching and vesting schedule · Continuing education assistance · Short Term / Long Term Disability & Life Insurance · Medical, Dependent Care and Commuter Flexible Spending Accounts · Employee Assistance Program · Wellness benefits include Calm Health app and WellHub gym subsidy (formerly GymPass) · 529 College Savings Plan · Legal Insurance · Pet Insurance
Salary Range
$113k-$158K
The pay range for this job is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) job responsibilities, education, certifications, experience, as well as internal equity mapping and alignment with market data, or other applicable laws.
Veterans are encouraged to apply
PingWind, Inc. does not discriminate in employment opportunities, terms, and conditions of employment, or practices on the basis of race, age, gender, religious or political beliefs, national origin or heritage, disability, sexual orientation, or any characteristic protected by law
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Enterprise Architect
About PingWind PingWind is focused on delivering outstanding services to the federal government. We have extensive experience in the fields of cybersecurity, development, IT infrastructure, supply chain management and other professional services such as system design and continuous improvement. PingWind is an SBA certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) with offices in Northern Virginia and Huntsville AL.www.PingWind.com Our benefits include: · Eleven Federal Holidays· Paid Time Off accrued each pay period· Parental Leave· Three medical plan choices with generous employer contribution· Dental and Vision Insurance· Company paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability· Company paid Life and AD&D Insurance· 401k with competitive matching and vesting schedule · Continuing education assistance· Short Term / Long Term Disability & Life Insurance· Medical, Dependent Care and Commuter Flexible Spending Accounts· Employee Assistance Program · Wellness benefits include Calm Health app and WellHub gym subsidy (formerly GymPass)· 529 College Savings Plan· Legal Insurance · Pet Insurance Salary Range $113k-$158K The pay range for this job is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) job responsibilities, education, certifications, experience, as well as internal equity mapping and alignment with market data, or other applicable laws. Veterans are encouraged to apply PingWind, Inc. does not discriminate in employment opportunities, terms, and conditions of employment, or practices on the basis of race, age, gender, religious or political beliefs, national origin or heritage, disability, sexual orientation, or any characteristic protected by law
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