C2 Solutions Architect

The Opportunity:

At a certain point, experience-based system design can start to look like clairvoyance. When you’ve developed so many systems that you can not only orchestrate the best solution for any technology-based challenge, but you can also anticipate and preempt future issues, you’re a solutions architect. You’ve evolved your skills into strategy through a long path of software development accomplishments and the curiosity to understand how all the pieces of an IT ecosystem fit together. Are you ready to use your combination of knowledge, skill, and experience to take on the toughest challenges in command and control (C2)? 

As a C2 solution architect, on our team, you'll translate your customer’s IT needs and future goals into a plan by crafting stands up, wires, deploys, and sustains the full hardware-and-software stack behind a command-and-control capability. This is a hands-on, client-facing engineering role that bridges traditional system administration, communications systems, and modern cloud/virtualization, in a forward operating environment. Through your leadership, we’ll help transform the way Air Operations Centers (AOC) and DoW uses technology including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems. And, what do you do next in a career where you’ve reached this level? You mentor the next set of developers to help them grow into tomorrow’s solutions architects. As a technical leader, you’ll shape the digital solutions business and identify opportunities for growth. 

Work with us and build the future of technology in supporting advanced command and control (C2) in an Air Operations Center for the better.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• Experience as a system administrator supporting Windows or Linux servers, including build, configuration, patching, and sustainment
• Experience physically wiring, cabling, and integrating servers and computing systems, including reading and interpreting wiring schematics and rack or one-line diagrams
• Experience operating and troubleshooting communications systems, including military radios, such as load, program, and troubleshoot, and commercial communications equipment
• Experience deploying software applications to a virtual machine or cloud environment, including hands-on work with AWS and VMware ESXi
• Experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker or Kubernetes, for application deployment
• Experience applying general security compliance practices, such as RMF, STIGs, hardening, and vulnerability remediation, to fielded systems
• Experience standing up, configuring, and maintaining a tactical or deployable data center
• Experience communicating directly with clients and stakeholders to translate operational needs into technical solutions
• Ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor's degree or 8+ years of experience in engineering, computer science, mathematics, or physics in lieu of a degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with command-and-control (C2) systems and tactical data links, such as Link 16 or JREAP-C, and RF theory
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code or configuration management such as Terraform or Ansible, for repeatable deployments
• Experience supporting deployable, expeditionary, or austere field environments
• Knowledge of high-voltage power system troubleshooting supporting data center or field infrastructure
• Knowledge of HVAC or environmental-control troubleshooting for server and equipment spaces
• Knowledge of AWS GovCloud or other secure or classified cloud enclaves
• Knowledge of network configuration and troubleshooting, including routing, switching, and VLANs, for stood-up C2 enclaves
• TS/SCI clearance
• CompTIA Security+, Network+, A+, or CASP+ certification

Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model
Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.

• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.

• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.