Senior Data Center Infrastructure Architect

GovCIO LLC seeks a Data Center Engineer / Architect to design, implement, and optimize secure, highly available data center and cloud-hybrid infrastructures for federal agencies. You will architect network, compute, storage, and virtualization solutions, automate deployments, and ensure scalability, performance, and disaster recovery. Partner with cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and application teams to meet federal compliance and mission needs. In our mission-driven, collaborative culture, you'll use modern tools, mentor others, and grow your skills while supporting high-impact national programs and large-scale digital transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable, secure data center and cloud-hybrid solutions for federal customers.
• Engineer and administer compute, storage, network, and virtualization platforms for high availability.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using scripting and Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Implement monitoring, capacity planning, and performance tuning across data center environments.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies.
• Ensure compliance with federal security, governance, and architecture standards (e.g., Fed
• RAMP, FISMA).
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, Dev
• Sec
• Ops, and application teams to support mission-critical systems.
• Document architectures, runbooks, and standards, and provide knowledge transfer and mentoring.
• Lead or support migration of legacy workloads into modern, cloud-enabled infrastructures.
• Continuously evaluate and recommend emerging technologies to improve reliability and efficiency.

Required Skills

• Data center architecture
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Virtualization (VMware/Hyper-V/KVM)
• Enterprise storage and backup
• Network design (LAN/WAN/VPN)
• Automation/Scripting (Python/Power
• Shell)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible)
• High availability and DR design
• Monitoring and performance tuning
• Security and compliance (Fed
• RAMP/FISMA)