Azure Cloud – Senior Platform Architect

Capgemini Government Solutions (CGS) LLC is seeking highly motivated and experienced Platform Architect to join our team to support our client in a secure environment.

The Platform Architect will have extensive experience in cloud architecture, specifically Platform as a Service (PaaS) products with a deep understanding of cloud computing technologies and services. As a Platform Architect, you will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and maintenance of Azure-based infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, security design, implementation of complex cloud solutions, application integration and providing technical guidance to other architects and engineers. The role will involve design and build out of infrastructure, focused on PaaS, including migrating from on-prem or legacy cloud implementations to a secure cloud environment. The role will involve leading in a fast-paced environment, while rapidly and thoroughly assessing primary and target infrastructure to ensure that the target environment supports current and future applications while being secure, reliable and scalable.

The successful applicant will have an opportunity to apply and grow their skills, work with a motivated and entrepreneurial team, engage with a wide range of collaborators and build CGS’ capabilities by serving our clients.

Job Responsibilities :

As a Platform Architect, you will be responsible for the following :

Leading the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex cloud and cloud infrastructure solutions that meet Government requirements.

Develop and implement cloud architecture standards and best practices.

Ensure that cloud infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and secure.

Ensure that cloud infrastructure design is compliant with classified infrastructure requirements

Provide subject matter expertise and hands-on experience in platform design, solutioning and troubleshooting activities.

Experience leading large scale cloud migrations

Implement and maintain monitoring and logging solutions to detect and diagnose issues in the cloud infrastructure and software applications.

Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other architects and engineers.

Evaluate new cloud technologies and common services and make recommendations for their use.

Expertise with Terraform, ARM, Ansible, PowerShell, Bash, and Python.

Expertise with containerized application and orchestration

Collaborate with multi-functional teams to design and implement scalable, secure, reliable cloud-based solutions.

Ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements.

Familiarity with DOD STIG compliance

Develop and maintain documentation related to cloud architecture solutions.

Required Qualifications :

US Citizenship is required

Must Active Top-Secret Clearance or higher

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field.

Minimum of 8 years of experience working in complex cloud IT / Infrastructure environments

Extensive experience in cloud architecture, specifically Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) products with a deep understanding of cloud computing technologies and services

Experience working with DOD or other Federal Government environment

Must have active Certification : Azure Solution Architect, Azure Security Engineer,

Desired Qualifications :

Ability to prioritize and display a high level of adaptability / flexibility while handling job responsibilities

Excellent communication and facilitation skills, think creatively / about the big picture, and dedicated (do-er)

Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment and provide hands-on technical support.

Linux or Windows based COTS applications

Experience with automated testing tools (pytest, unittest, Selenium, Postman, Terratest)

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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Capgemini discloses salary range information in compliance with state and local pay transparency obligations. The disclosed range represents the lowest to highest salary we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting, although we may ultimately pay more or less than the disclosed range, and the range may be modified in the future. The disclosed range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, geographic location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, performance, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs. At Capgemini, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role. The base salary range for the tagged location is 110k-135k.

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