Server Architect (Senior) at CACI in Ashburn, VA

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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 * * * The Opportunity: 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. Responsibilities: 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 Qualifications: Required: 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 Desired: 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, SimpliVity) and cloud migration strategies Knowledge of Department of State security requirements and experience designing infrastructure for geographically distributed, disconnected environments - What You Can Expect: A culture