Infrastructure Architect

MetaPhase Consulting • Washington, DC

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

MetaPhase is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect with eight or more (8+) years of experience to support a high-impact federal transportation security program. This role will design, build, modernize, and support resilient infrastructure across on-premises data centers, cloud environments, hybrid architectures, and multi-site mission platforms. The ideal candidate brings deep technical experience designing infrastructure that meets performance, reliability, scalability, security, and cost requirements. This individual will understand when on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments are best suited to the mission, and will lead migration, modernization, disaster recovery, and multi-site architecture initiatives across complex federal environments.

Requirements

• Minimum of eight or more (8+) years of progressive experience in infrastructure architecture, systems engineering, cloud architecture, data center engineering, network engineering, or related IT disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building on-premises and cloud environments to meet both performance and cost requirements.
• Strong understanding of cloud service models, infrastructure services, and hybrid architecture patterns, including when cloud, on-premises, or hybrid deployment is most appropriate.
• Experience leading or materially supporting migration projects from on-premises environments into cloud platforms.
• Experience with distributed systems architecture, including resilient application and infrastructure patterns across multiple environments or geographic sites.
• Experience designing for disaster recovery, backup and recovery, high availability, failover, continuity of operations, and risk mitigation.
• Hands-on experience installing and managing Dell enterprise hardware.
• Hands-on experience installing, configuring, testing, deploying, and managing multi-site architectures.
• Experience with compute, storage, virtualization, networking, firewalls, load balancing, identity/access, monitoring, patching, backup, and endpoint management.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, with federal or regulated cloud experience preferred.
• Experience developing technical documentation, architecture diagrams, implementation plans, migration plans, operational procedures, and engineering recommendations.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with infrastructure teams, cybersecurity teams, application teams, architects, federal stakeholders, and program leadership.
• Minimum bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Computer Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Ability to obtain and maintain federal suitability or Public Trust is required
• U.S. Citizenship required (NO EXCEPTIONS)

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience supporting DHS, TSA, transportation security, airport operations, defense, law enforcement, or national security missions.
• Experience with FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53, RMF, ATO support, STIG hardening, POA&M remediation, or federal cybersecurity requirements.
• Experience with VMware, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Linux, Windows Server, SQL Server, Oracle, or enterprise monitoring platforms.
• Experience with Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, or other government-approved cloud environments.
• Experience supporting infrastructure for operational technology, connected devices, edge environments, or mission equipment.
• Experience with blue/green deployments, multi-data-center replication, SQL database replication, or active/passive failover models.
• Certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, VMware VCP, Dell Technologies certification, CCNA/CCNP, CompTIA Cloud+, Security+, or equivalent.
• Active DHS suitability, Public Trust, Secret, or higher clearance preferred.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and modernizing infrastructure architectures across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Evaluating mission, performance, security, cost, scalability, and operational requirements to determine the best-fit infrastructure services and deployment model.
• Leading infrastructure migration projects from legacy or on-premises environments into government-approved cloud platforms.
• Designing and supporting hybrid architectures that integrate data centers, cloud services, networks, storage, compute, identity, monitoring, and endpoint environments.
• Designing for disaster recovery, failover, continuity of operations, backup and recovery, resilience, and mitigation of infrastructure risk.
• Architecting and supporting distributed systems across multi-site environments.
• Installing, configuring, testing, deploying, and managing multi-site infrastructure architectures.
• Installing, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Dell hardware, including servers, storage, rack infrastructure, and related enterprise components.
• Supporting infrastructure capacity planning, performance tuning, availability planning, and lifecycle modernization.
• Supporting infrastructure modernization activities including virtualization, containerization, automation, configuration management, cloud migration, and environment consolidation.
• Developing infrastructure architecture diagrams, technical configuration documents, migration plans, disaster recovery plans, implementation plans, and operational runbooks.
• Coordinating with cloud, cybersecurity, network, database, application, DevSecOps, and program management teams to ensure infrastructure solutions are secure, supportable, and aligned to mission needs.
• Supporting development, integration, test, staging, production, and disaster recovery environments.
• Troubleshooting infrastructure issues across compute, storage, virtualization, networking, cloud, database platform, monitoring, and hardware layers.
• Providing technical recommendations to improve system performance, reduce cost, increase reliability, simplify operations, and reduce technical debt.
• Supporting release, deployment, and change management activities across controlled production and non-production environments.

Benefits

• MetaPhase Consulting is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or veteran status, or any other factors protected by federal, state, or local law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior