3 days ago
Base Salary
$146k - $234k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain overall technical architecture across cloud, on-premises, and security-domain environments.
- Establish architectural boundaries, interfaces, shared-service patterns, and interoperability approaches across platforms.
- Define common patterns for APIs, messaging, identity, authorization, service discovery, data exchange, observability, and software delivery.
- Lead architecture and technical-design reviews across multiple engineering and platform teams.
- Evaluate technology selections, modernization efforts, replacements, and proposed technical changes for cross-platform impacts.
- Maintain reference architectures, technical standards, interface principles, and architecture decision records.
- Communicate architecture decisions, risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and recommendations to program and customer leadership.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph is required.
- Approximately 10–12 years of relevant experience in software, systems, platform, cloud, infrastructure, or enterprise architecture is required.
- A BS/BA with at least 10 years of experience is required; an additional 4 years of experience may substitute for the degree.
- Experience providing architecture leadership across multiple interconnected systems, platforms, or technical environments is required.
- Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, identity, networking, security boundaries, shared services, and software-delivery architectures is required.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized application environments is required.
- Experience designing hybrid architectures spanning cloud and on-premises infrastructure is required.
- Desired qualifications include classified-cloud experience, large-scale system-of-systems architecture, GitLab and enterprise software factories, SysML, UAF, MBSE, service mesh, event-driven architecture, API gateways, and NRO or Intelligence Community architecture.
Benefits
- Fully onsite in Chantilly, Virginia.
- The position may include eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
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About Peraton
Peraton builds and integrates mission systems, cyber, space, and intelligence solutions for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil agencies. It delivers enterprise IT, satellite and terrestrial communications, and spectrum management under government contracts. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia and is privately held by Veritas Capital.