Server Architect; Senior

Job Title:

Server Architect (Senior)

Job Category:
Information Technology

Time Type:
Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
Secret

Employee Type:
Regular

Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Type of Travel:
Local

CACI is seeking a Senior Server Architect for the Global Mission Operations Support (GMOS) contract, supporting the Department of State. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance national security through advanced IT solutions. You will collaborate with experienced professionals in an innovative environment, guiding a high-performing team to deliver excellence. The GMOS contract aims to provide world-class IT support by modernizing and maintaining applications and infrastructure using an integrated IT Service Management approach.

Join us to make a meaningful impact on a program of national importance.

• Lead design and implementation of physical and virtual hosting environments including cloud platforms across 350+ global facilities, ensuring scalability and high availability
• Provide comprehensive engineering and design services for Windows and UNIX/Linux server platforms, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and best practices
• Develop detailed infrastructure diagrams for all production systems ensuring Department of State and DT security compliance, including network topology, system dependencies, and data flows
• Design converged and hyperconverged solutions optimizing deployment footprints while maintaining optimal performance, availability, and disaster recovery capabilities
• Design local infrastructure architectures ensuring sufficient computing and storage capacity for operations during periods of disconnected communications or network outages
• Support ongoing modernization efforts by designing infrastructure evolutions based on industry best practices, focusing on cost optimization and operational efficiency
• Lead transitions of systems from physical to virtual operating environments and from decentralized to centralized cloud-oriented architectures
• Develop server architecture standards, configuration baselines, and technical documentation to ensure consistency and compliance across the enterprise
• Collaborate with security teams, network engineers, and application owners to ensure server architectures meet security, performance, and integration requirements
• Function as a technical expert across multiple project assignments, planning and leading major server architecture initiatives while mentoring team members and supervising infrastructure design activities

• Bachelor's degree + 8 years of experience in related fields, such as server architecture, systems engineering, infrastructure design, virtualization, or cloud architecture; equivalencies considered.
• Active Secret Clearance
• Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise server architectures including physical, virtual, and cloud environments
• Demonstrated expertise in Windows Server and UNIX/Linux platforms, hyperconverged infrastructure, and virtualization technologies (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM)
• Strong knowledge of capacity planning, disaster recovery design, and high-availability architectures
• Excellent leadership abilities with proven experience planning and leading major infrastructure design initiatives, functioning as a subject matter expert, and supervising architecture teams

• Prior experience supporting federal agencies, especially the Department of State
• Professional certifications such as VMware Certified Professional (VCP), Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Solutions Architect, Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA), or AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Experience with converged/hyperconverged infrastructure solutions (Nutanix, VxRail, Simpli Vity) and cloud migration strategies
• Knowledge of Department of State security requirements and experience designing infrastructure for geographically distributed, disconnected environments

• A culture of integrity. At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you'll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer's missions and driven by a higher purpose - to ensure the safety of our nation.
• An environment of trust. CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You'll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to…