Sr. Platform Architect III with Security Clearance

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Job description

Mount Indie is hiring a Sr Platform Architect III to lead a recently awarded 5 year contract supporting the IC. You'll bring 10 years of hands-on experience in architecting, designing, building, and maintaining robust and scalable infrastructure solutions with containers and Kubernetes. In this role, you will 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. Responsibilities Overview: •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. Required Skills/Experience: •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-premise, 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 Desired Qualifications: •One or more relevant certifications such as CKA, CKAD, CKS, or AWS Solution Architect Associate, with Kubernetes certifications highly preferred. •In-depth knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible. •Demonstrated experience in building and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Artifactory, GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube. •Solid scripting and programming skills in languages like Python, Go, Ruby, or similar. •Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.

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