Overview In this role you will design and govern a hybrid cloud platform for the L-CAP automation platform, enabling mission-critical air traffic capabilities. You will work within the Air Traffic Business Area to shape scalable, secure infrastructure and platform services, leveraging an AI-first engineering mindset to accelerate delivery and improve software quality. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure deterministic performance for safety-critical ATC applications. This opportunity combines cutting-edge cloud architecture with government programs and a strong emphasis on reliability and compliance.
Responsibilities- Design the hybrid cloud architecture spanning on-premises and cloud environments
- Define Kubernetes orchestration strategy for containerized workloads at scale
- Establish Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) governance using Terraform
- Architect FedRAMP-compliant platform designs across multiple environments
- Design and govern CI/CD platform services for engineering teams
- Lead capacity planning and infrastructure cost modeling
- Define platform reliability standards including SLOs and SLIs
- Oversee container orchestration patterns and service mesh architecture
- Drive cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices
- Design platform architecture to host safety-critical ATC applications with deterministic performance characteristics
Key requirements- Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of cloud and platform engineering experience
- Expert-level cloud architecture experience with AWS or Azure GovCloud
- Production Kubernetes experience at scale (100+ nodes)
- Deep Terraform/IaC for enterprise infrastructure management
- Platform engineering leadership for large development organizations
- FedRAMP platform compliance and boundary design experience
- Container orchestration and microservices platform design
- Distributed systems architecture and reliability engineering
- Microservices platform design supporting hundreds of services
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; US citizenship required; subject to government background investigation
- Experience supporting deterministic distributed services with strict latency and availability requirements
- Knowledge of platform engineering for safety-critical applications versus general enterprise workloads
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust
- U.S. citizenship required
- Successful completion of background investigations as required by the government customer
- leadership
- collaboration
- communication
- AWS or Azure GovCloud
- Kubernetes at scale
- Terraform/IaC
