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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior System Architect - **Company:** BAE Systems - **Location:** Suitland-Silver Hill, MD, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $118,095.0 - $200,762.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, C Sharp (Programming Language), Configuration Management, Computer Programming, Databases, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Data Warehousing, Software Design Patterns, Linux, Distributed Computing Environment, Expert Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Web Servers, Object-Oriented Software Development, PowerBuilder, Software Architecture, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Service-Oriented Architecture, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Software Systems, SQL Stored Procedures, SQL Databases, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, Test Data, Web Services, System Availability, Sonatype, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Modeling and Simulation, Puppet, Terraform, Devsecops, Programming Languages, Microservices - **Published:** August 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/5608F9B252D6424C945C87BE840DF068/job/ ## About the Role Senior System Architect with prior experience as a lead DevSecOps Architect, Platform Architect, and/or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). This resource will be responsible for setting up and maintaining the Sonatype Products Platform and providing best practices, preferably knowledgeable of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, for setting up Infrastructure as Code (IaC), microservices design patterns, utilizing efficient AWS services, while integrating and coordinating into performant CI/CD automated pipelines for delivering software products. Candidate must understand High Availability (HA) configuration patterns, backup strategies, and systems monitoring. Required Education, Experience, & Skills Bachelor's Degree - Computer Sciences or related field. Ability to obtain Public Trust (NACI), * 5 years experience designing, writing, maintaining automation for configuration management, application deployment, and infrastructure orchestration using industry standard tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform etc. * Hands on experience setting up Sonatype products using AWS infrastructure. * Nine or more years of experience in the design and development of applications. * Nine or more years of experience in data modeling, data warehousing, distributed processing, utilization of tools for data modeling and logical and physical database design, software integration, and/or security issues and techniques, as required. * Nine or more years of experience with business and system object modeling. * Nine or more years of experience developing analysis & design and software architecture documents. * At least nine years coding experience with task specified programming languages (e.g., Java, C , C#, PowerBuilder, etc.). * At least nine years coding experience with SQL or database stored procedures. * At least nine years of experience with Internet/Intranet protocols and web server technologies, if required. * At least nine years of experience building Service Oriented Architecture using web service standards (i.e., SOAP, RPC, REST, or micro services). * At least seven years of experience with current network, development and database architectures and technologies. * At least seven years of experience developing systems architectures, if required. * At least seven years of experience developing enterprise projects utilizing iterative system development methodologies, if required. * Knowledge of advanced testing tools and at least one year of experience with automated test driven development in an agile environment. * Experience with continuous integrated and continuous delivery tools and technologies. * At least one year of experience with user story development or analysis in an agile development environment, if required. * At least five years of experience as a technical leader of software engineering or computer professionals, as required., Knowledge of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, for setting up Infrastructure as Code (IaC), microservices design patterns, utilizing efficient AWS services, while integrating and coordinating into performant CI/CD automated pipelines for delivering software products. ## Description * Ensure compatibility between equipment and software, analyze operational/systems requirements, support design reviews, and present technical briefings. * Evaluate, assess, document, and test data security and continuity of operations for systems and programs. * Serve as solutions provider to senior management and professional staff concerning areas of technological development and advancement. * Formulate recommendation on hardware/software interfacing, large scale systems, expert systems, and technical problems. * Perform business and system object modeling simulation and analysis. * Advise and recommend system characteristics that affect software systems such as storage capacity, processing speed and I/O requirements. * Provide enterprise systems architecture expertise in developing systems supporting common purposes, processes, architectures, and standards. * Develop strategy for enterprise-wide methodology or tool implementation or planning and implementing enterprise technology changes in all layers of the architecture including front end, middle tier and backend technologies and tools. * Design and implement infrastructure automation, using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform etc, * Define DevSecOps processes including CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy software systems including infrastructure set up and configurations. * Manage configuration automation across Linux systems. * Utilize AWS to set up Sonatype products. ## Related Videos - [Building Well-Architected applications](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/691-building-well-architected-applications) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [Automate everything via NodeJS and Puppeteer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/322-automate-everything-via-nodejs-and-puppeteer) - [Dev & Test in the Cloud? 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