Sr. Principal Platform Engineer
Clarity Innovations2 months ago
Springfield, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$144k - $324k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and guide cloud and hybrid infrastructure for AI platforms and DAG mission capabilities.
- Ensure infrastructure is scalable, resilient, secure, cost-effective, and compatible with sponsor enterprise architecture and operating environments.
- Partner with AI/ML, platform, and security architects to deploy workloads, automate infrastructure, and satisfy classified-environment requirements.
- Evaluate COTS/FOSS and government enterprise services and establish reusable infrastructure patterns supporting continuous delivery.
- Develop architectures covering networking, identity and access management, storage, compute, high availability, disaster recovery, observability, and cloud cost optimization.
Requirements
- Expertise in cloud architecture and cloud-native application architecture.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, and/or other government cloud environments.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, containerized architectures, Infrastructure as Code, and Terraform.
- Experience with networking, VPC/VNet architecture, identity and access management, storage architectures, and compute architecture.
- Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, scalability and performance engineering, cloud security, Zero Trust architectures, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, FinOps, hybrid cloud, and on-premises/cloud integration.
- Ability to evaluate COTS/FOSS and government enterprise services.
Tech Stack
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About Clarity Innovations
Clarity Innovations builds and deploys custom software, data analytics platforms, and cloud solutions for U.S. government customers, especially the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. Its teams provide DevSecOps, systems architecture, rapid prototyping, and UX/UI services to modernize mission systems and workflows. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, it is privately held and operates as part of Chameleon Consulting Group.