# Lead Platform Engineering Architect

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: USA TX Lackland AFB
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $147,292 - $199,278
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join GDIT's mission-driven team supporting the Department of Defense as we help unify the Air Force's cyber defense to outpace threats with shared insight, faster decisions, and stronger mission protection.

As a Lead Platform Engineering Architect, you will lead the hybrid cloud and on-premises platform engineering effort underpinning all applications and services. You will design, build, and manage baselines that are highly available, secure, and scalable across hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructures.

Key responsibilities include:

- Configuring, integrating, hardening, and managing Kubernetes environments

- Governing disaster recovery and patching strategy

- Designing, sustaining, and governing the enterprise Disaster Recovery, Backup Solution, and Business Continuity strategy

- Integrating DoW Iron Bank hardened containers and certificates to field applications

Priority technical skill sets include:

- Deep expertise in designing, hardening, and operating Kubernetes environments at enterprise scale

- Experience implementing DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines, IaC/CaC, and automated security gates

- Strong mastery of hybrid network engineering

- Ability to integrate Iron Bank hardened containers, manage OS baselines, and operate boundary security systems

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 10-12 years in platform engineering

- 5+ years Kubernetes and container orchestration

- 5+ years hybrid cloud (AWS/Azure/on-prem) architecture

- Active Top Secret with SCI eligibility

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional certification

Benefits include:

- 401K with company match

- Comprehensive health and wellness packages

- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

- Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

- Paid vacation and holidays

## Skills

### Required
- CI/CD
- Cloud Platform
- DevSecOps Architecture
- System Platform
- Virtualization
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Ansible
- AWS

### Nice to have
- MBSE
- Zero Trust
- cloud
- mission systems

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