# Lead Platform Engineering Architect

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Lackland AFB, TX
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,250 - $189,750
**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.

The Lead Platform Engineering Architect leads the hybrid cloud and on-premises platform engineering effort underpinning all applications and services. The role designs, builds, and manages baselines that are highly available, secure, and scalable across hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructures.

Key responsibilities:

- Configure, integrate, harden, and manage Kubernetes environments

- Govern disaster recovery and patching strategy

- Design, sustain, and govern the enterprise Disaster Recovery, Backup Solution, and Business Continuity strategy

- Integrate Iron Bank hardened containers and certificates to field applications

Technical skills required:

- Expert AWS architecture and multi-cloud/hybrid infrastructure design

- Kubernetes administration at scale

- Infrastructure as Code / Configuration as Code (IaC/CaC) practices

- Software-defined networking (SDN/SD-WAN)

- System Integration Lab (SIL) operations

Priority technical skill sets:

- 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 (SDN, SD-WAN, routing/switching, NAC, OOB management)

- 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

- Security Clearance Level: Top Secret with SCI eligibility

- Certification: AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional

Benefits:

- 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

- Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

- Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

## Skills

### Required
- Cloud Platform
- Hybrid Clouds
- Platform Development
- System Platform
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- DevSecOps
- CI/CD
- IaC/CaC
- Terraform
- Ansible
- SDN
- SD-WAN
- network segmentation
- Iron Bank
- container orchestration

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

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