Kbr, Inc.
Provides engineering, procurement, construction and technology solutions to government and industry worldwide.
Senior Solutions Architect
Lead design & delivery of enterprise SaaS solutions for US Space Force
Job Highlights
About the Role
The architect will work with users, stakeholders, and product owners to translate mission needs into scalable solutions, guide development teams, and serve as a technical bridge ensuring operational viability and compliance with security and enterprise standards. Applicants are warned about job‑placement fraud; KBR never requests advance payment and carefully protects candidate personal information. • Lead architecture and solution design for enterprise‑scale applications and platform services. • Engage users, stakeholders, and product owners to elicit and decompose requirements into architectural designs and technical backlogs. • Define system and application architectures, conduct trade studies, select technologies, and specify interfaces. • Provide architectural guidance to development teams, ensuring alignment with standards, security, and maintainability. • Act as a technical bridge between mission needs and engineering execution. • Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across multiple teams. • Maintain an active Secret clearance. • Design scalable, maintainable systems, microservices APIs, event‑driven architectures, and secure CI/CD pipelines. • Apply strong Agile methodology skills, requirement decomposition, and technical leadership. • Provide SATCOM domain expertise: ground/space/network integration, EMI/EMC impacts, service ordering and provisioning workflows, and data flows between ordering, management, and monitoring systems. • Utilize Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation. • Implement observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack. • Apply cloud‑native security and compliance tooling. • Design and operate Kubernetes clusters, including monitoring and administration. • Work with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, or Oracle Cloud. • Integrate service mesh technologies (e.g., Linkerd) and manage certificates. • Implement identity and access management solutions such as Keycloak.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸solution architecture
- ▸microservices api
- ▸ci/cd pipelines
- ▸iac tools
- ▸observability
- ▸kubernetes ops
What You Bring
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience). • Possess 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in solution architecture and 2+ years in DevOps or platform engineering. • Demonstrate hands‑on experience with microservices, Linux, Java/Spring Boot, Python/Bash scripting, CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins), Docker, Kafka/RabbitMQ, and PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB. • Familiar with front‑end architecture (e.g., Angular) and GitOps tools like ArgoCD or Helm.
Requirements
- ▸bachelor's
- ▸10+ years
- ▸microservices
- ▸linux
- ▸java
- ▸docker
Benefits
Compensation ranges from $156,000 to $196,000 in California and will reflect the candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and internal parity. KBR offers a competitive benefits package including a 401(k) plan with company match, medical/dental/vision insurance, paid time off, flexible work schedules, and professional training and development opportunities.
Work Environment
Onsite