Title: Platform Architect Location: Fairfax, VA Clearance: Secret Clearance Citizenship Requirement: US Citizenship required Req #: 3541 Salary: 130,266 to 144,513 Summary: Craig Technologies has an opening for a Platform Architect in Fairfax, VA. As a Platform Architect for the AN/BYG-1 and Tactical Control Systems programs, you’ll perform as the lead contributor and visionary in a cross functional team responsible for enabling a seamless developer experience. You will continuously focus on removing hurdles to enable rapid capability development experience by software and infrastructure developers, utilizing the best in breed practices and technologies. Detailed Description: Lead the automation of infrastructure and tools to streamline operations, deployment, and monitoring processes. Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of containerized environments. Conduct assessment of the DevSecOps pipeline needs and implement process improvements. Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and ensure seamless integration of new features. Position Requirements: Working knowledge of Kubernetes and container technologies, especially including CNCF graduated projects, such as ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, Nexus, Helm, Jenkins, Bamboo or other continuous integration tools. You have a passion for pain-free developer experience and understand the pain points developers experience in developing and shipping new features into production. Ability to lead the process improvement initiatives related to software development, deployment and delivery. You stay up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and proactively find opportunities to operational them. Ability to work in a flexible environment that embraces rapid change, emphasizes continuous learning, and attack new challenges. Expertise in applying technical standards and methodologies to solve challenges in creative ways. Collaborative team player eager to provide technical leadership and positioning others for success. Thorough knowledge of technology trends and willingness to champion new ideas and process improvements. Commitment to ongoing professional development for yourself and others. Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, or a related Science, Engineering or Mathematics field. Also requires 5+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 3 years of job-related experience. Agile experience preferred. *All candidates selected will be subject to a security background investigation/Drug Screening and must meet all eligibility requirements. * Craig Technologies is an EEO Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other non-job-related protected status. All candidates selected will be subject to a security background investigation and must meet all eligibility requirements for access to classified information.