Sr. Principal Platform Engineer

Role Description:

The Cloud Architect will design and guide the cloud and hybrid infrastructure supporting the team's AI platform and DAG mission capabilities. The Architect will ensure that the technical environment is scalable, resilient, secure, cost-effective, and compatible with the sponsor's enterprise architecture and operating environment.

The role will work closely with the AI/ML Architect to ensure AI workloads can be efficiently deployed and scaled, with the Platform Engineer to operationalize infrastructure through automation, and with the Security Engineer to satisfy classified-environment security requirements. The Cloud Architect will evaluate COTS/FOSS and government enterprise services and establish reusable infrastructure patterns that support continuous delivery.

Technical Skills:

Cloud architecture

AWS, Azure, and/or other government cloud environments

Kubernetes

Containerized architectures

Cloud-native application architecture

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Networking

VPC/VNet architecture

Identity and access management

Storage architectures

Compute architecture

High availability

Disaster recovery

Scalability and performance engineering

Cloud security

Zero Trust architectures

Infrastructure automation

CI/CD

Observability

Cloud cost optimization/FinOps

Hybrid cloud

On-premises/cloud integration

COTS/FOSS evaluation

Salary Range: $144,000 - $324,000