Hybrid Cloud Platform Engineer & Solutions Architect

Kentro; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Healthcare benefits

401(k) with employer match

Employee discounts

Job summary

Kentro is hiring a Software & Platform Engineer in the McLean, VA area. The role blends hands-on software development with platform architecture to design and prototype cloud-enabled solutions that scale across enterprise environments.

Responsibilities include building API-first systems on cloud platforms, implementing IaC, and advancing observability. The position offers a hybrid work model with competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale integrations and optimizations across multi-vendor environments.
• Strong understanding of decoupled API-first architectures and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Go, or C#.
• Ability to translate high-level requirements into technical designs.

Responsibilities

• Focus: Solution Engineering, Application Development, Platform Architecture.
• Design and prototype full-stack or service-based solutions for production-ready value.
• Communicate complex topics clearly via demos, docs, and discussions with customers.
• Design decoupled, API-first environments using cloud-native services (AWS, Azure, GCP) to support seamless flow between backends and frontend clients.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code and contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code maturity to ensure reproducibility, scalability, and version control.
• Assist with observability and tracing to monitor health of decoupled systems and predict bottlenecks.
• Integrate major platforms like ServiceNow, Salesforce, Databricks into cloud ecosystems.
• Build reference implementations and automation patterns to scale innovation across projects.
• Partner with teams to embed innovation, mentor engineers, and evangelize new capabilities.
• Apply architecture and security best practices from inception within cloud or owned infra.
• Evaluate new software and platforms to stay ahead of technology trends.

Skills

Full-stack development

API-first design

Cloud architecture

DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Azure Resource Manager

Prometheus

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Kentro is hiring a Software & Platform Engineer in the McLean, VA area. The role blends hands-on software development with platform architecture to design and prototype cloud-enabled solutions that scale across enterprise environments.

Responsibilities include building API-first systems on cloud platforms, implementing IaC, and advancing observability. The position offers a hybrid work model with competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.