Posted 13 days ago
Sr. Principal Platform Engineer
AI Summary
The Cloud Architect designs and guides cloud and hybrid infrastructure for an AI platform and DAG mission capabilities, ensuring scalability, resilience, security, and cost-effectiveness while collaborating with AI/ML, Platform, and Security engineers.
About this role
Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world.
Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.
We are committed to delivering cutting-edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.
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
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