Sr. Platform Architect III (5725) Washington, DC Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure TS/SCI CI
Company: MetroStar Systems, Inc.
Location: Washington
Posted on: March 8, 2025
Job Description:
As Sr. Platform Architect III, you'll be an experienced
architect with hands-on experience in architecting, designing,
building, and maintaining robust and scalable infrastructure
solutions with containers and Kubernetes. You'll also lead a team
of Platform Engineers and play a critical hands-on role in
architecting, deploying, and managing our customer's core platform,
ensuring its availability, performance, and security.We know that
you can't have great technology services without amazing people. At
MetroStar, we are obsessed with our people and have led a
two-decade legacy of building the best and brightest teams. Because
we know our future relies on our deep understanding and relentless
focus on our people, we live by our mission: A passion for our
people. Value for our customers.If you think you can see yourself
delivering our mission and pursuing our goals with us, then check
out the job description below!What you'll do:
- Lead planning, development, and deployment of platform
components and services.
- Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, tools, and
frameworks to optimize platform performance, security, and
cost-effectiveness.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment
processes, enabling rapid and reliable software delivery.
- Monitor platform performance, identify bottlenecks, and
proactively optimize systems for maximum efficiency.
- Manage cloud-based infrastructure and orchestration tools to
ensure high availability and fault tolerance.
- Drive security best practices throughout the platform,
implementing measures to safeguard data, applications, and
services.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues to minimize
downtime.What you'll need to succeed:
- Active TS//SCI clearance with CI Poly.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience as a Platform Architect,
Technical Lead or similar role.
- Expert-level hands-on experience architecting, designing,
implementing, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and
secure platform architectures at scale, in the cloud and
on-premises, across multiple classification domains (IL5 to IL6+)
simultaneously.
- Proficiency in AWS with a deep understanding of cloud services
and networking.
- Expert hands-on experience with containerization and
orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes; specifically
experience with OpenShift is highly preferred.
- Strong expertise with service mesh technology and tools such as
GreyMatter and Istio.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve
complex system issues.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with
the ability to convey complex security concepts to technical and
non-technical stakeholders.
- One or more relevant certifications such as CKA, CKAD, CKS, or
AWS Solution Architect Associate, with Kubernetes certifications
highly preferred.Delivering targeted transformation and meaningful
innovation is kind of our thing - we've been propelling government
missions since 1999.
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