Platform Architect
Tyto Athene, LLC3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$150k - $162k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and evolution of a secure hybrid cloud platform using Azure, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.
- Define reusable platform services, reference architectures, engineering standards, and governance across classified and unclassified environments.
- Architect and manage multi-cluster Kubernetes platforms for development, test, staging, production, and classified environments.
- Establish Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and automated platform provisioning.
- Design Azure landing zones, network topology, identity, governance, private connectivity, firewall inspection, and hub-and-spoke WAN architectures.
- Develop platform capabilities for identity integration, secrets management, policy enforcement, observability, and SRE practices.
- Define SLOs, monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident-response processes.
- Provide technical leadership, conduct architecture reviews, and drive platform modernization.
Requirements
- At least five years of experience architecting enterprise cloud platforms.
- At least five years of hands-on experience building enterprise cloud platforms with Azure, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.
- Experience designing platforms that operate across multiple classification levels.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, STEM, or a related discipline.
- Current CKA, CKS, or CKAD certification, or equivalent.
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) certification is preferred.
- Experience with Azure, including Azure Government, landing zones, VNets, ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, Front Door, Private Link, Azure Arc, Entra ID, and Azure Monitor.
- Experience with Kubernetes, AKS, Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, cert-manager, service mesh, container registries, and cluster lifecycle management.
- Experience with Terraform, Bicep, and GitLab CI/CD automation.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Log Analytics, monitoring, and alerting.
- Knowledge of Zero Trust, RBAC, Vault, External Secrets Operator, Keycloak, NIST, CIS Benchmarks, and FedRAMP/DoD compliance.
- Experience with CI/CD, vulnerability scanning, and CDS (L2H, H2L).
- Active Secret clearance.
Benefits
- Remote position, with preference for candidates residing in Colorado Springs, Colorado, or El Segundo, California.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) match.
- Paid time off.
- Short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
- Referral bonuses.
- Professional development reimbursement.
- Parental leave.
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About Tyto Athene, LLC
Tyto Athene, LLC provides IT services and systems integration for U.S. defense and national security customers, delivering network modernization, unified communications, hybrid cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise IT. The privately held company, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, designs, deploys, and manages mission-critical infrastructure including command centers, mobility, wireless, and physical security systems. Its work is primarily delivered under government contracts for design-build projects, managed services, and lifecycle support across CONUS and OCONUS locations.