Chief Platform Architect

6 days ago

Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, United States ECS Full time

ECS is seeking a highly skilled Chief Platform Architect to join our team in Vandenberg SFB, CA. This position is contingent upon contract award.

Job Description:

The ideal candidate will be a senior technical leader responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of our technology platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with business and space mission goals. The successful candidate will have a strong technical foundation in product ownership, software development, and cloud technologies, including Kubernetes, Istio, and Docker containers.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and articulate the overall architecture and design of the technology platform, ensuring alignment with mission systems and customer objectives.
  • Define and document platform components, interfaces, and dependencies.
  • Design the platform to scale horizontally and vertically to meet current and future performance requirements.
  • Design systems that meet rigorous requirements for availability, resiliency, and performance.
  • Establish hardware-based solutions and on-prem networking and access requirements for distributed workforce.
  • Implement strategies for load balancing, caching, and optimization to drive platform performance and resilience.
  • Ensure the platform is designed for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
  • Proactively implement monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery mechanisms.
  • Design interfaces and APIs to enable seamless integration with internal and external systems.
  • Collaborate with other architects and development teams to ensure interoperability.
  • Implement and oversee security measures, including encryption, authentication, and authorization.
  • Stay updated on security best practices and proactively address potential vulnerabilities.
  • Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools for the platform.
  • Stay informed about emerging technologies and assess their potential impact on the platform.
  • Collaborate with software development teams to ensure that platform architecture is effectively implemented.
  • Provide technical guidance and support to development teams.
  • Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for the platform architecture, design decisions, and guidelines.
  • Provide training and knowledge transfer to development teams.
  • Monitor platform performance and conduct performance tuning to optimize resource utilization.
  • Implement best practices for database performance, caching, and data storage.
  • Initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project's inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs.
  • Provides strategic advice, technical guidance, and expertise to program and project staff.
  • Provides detailed analysis, evaluation, and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission-critical challenges/issues.
  • Consults with client to define need or problem, supervises studies, and leads surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
  • Manage enterprise requirements and priorities across a diverse range of users and mission spaces.
  • Own the technical roadmap and provide strategic technical vision.
  • Communicate the technical roadmap and strategic technical vision to internal and external stakeholders and teams.
  • Leads and/or participates in discussions, meetings, conferences, committees, or special IT projects as a senior technical advisor.
  • Analyzes areas of concern, identifies problems, and resolves conflicts through persuasive discussions with management and user representatives.
  • Propose, test, evaluate, and down-select technical solutions to meet the technical roadmap and strategic technical vision.
  • Conduct periodic, comprehensive architectural assessments and evaluations of capability-based goals/objectives.
  • Conduct secure code reviews to ensure STIG compliance.

Salary Range: $140,000-$200,000

Required Skills:

  • Must be a US Citizen per contract.
  • Must have an Active Top-Secret Clearance.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar experience.
  • Proven experience as a Platform Architect or in a similar role.
  • Change agent that inspires a project team to achieve solutions within the DoD.
  • Strong proficiency in system architecture, design patterns, and software engineering principles.
  • 'Hands-on' architect – able to write code, stand-in for dev team members as needed; experienced practitioner.
  • Experience with Azure cloud platform and working knowledge of other platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP).
  • Proven experience designing scalable and high-performance platforms.
  • In-depth understanding of security best practices and experience implementing security measures.
  • Experience designing and implementing interfaces and APIs for seamless integration.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to balance conflicting and changing demands through prioritization and a pragmatic approach.

Desired Skills:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of relevant experience (ex. product owner, software development, DevOps engineer, cloud architecture).
  • Experience with both lean startup principles and agile software project management.
  • Experience working with cyber compliance SMEs for adherence to DoD system requirements.
  • Familiarity with Tanzu TKGS Kubernetes, vSphere, MinIO container, Harbor, Nimble storage, Blade Servers, Networking, Switches, Firewalls.
  • Familiarity with Virtual Networks, Linux VMs, Cloud Server configurations, and storage arrays.
  • Familiarity with operational availability, MMTR, ArgoCD, Jira, Confluence, Google Workspace Mattermost, RBAC, MFA, ICAM, and Kafka.
  • Familiarity with C, C++, Java, and FORTRAN.
  • Familiarity with Trivy, SonarQube, GitLeaks, OWASP, and SD Elements.
  • Understanding of Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment, Identity and Access Management, Network Security, Cloud Security, Compliance, and Auditing, and Security Architecture and Design.

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