Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Platform Lead

Peraton; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Technical Manager who will own technology planning, optimization, service evolution, and innovation across Private Cloud, Network, Mainframe, and AI Platform. The role is the single point of accountability for performance and incident management within a multi-vendor government IT environment.

The candidate must be a US citizen, with 10 years of infrastructure leadership, and willingness to relocate to or be located in the Austin, TX area. This is an on-site position.

Qualifications

• 10 years of infrastructure architecture and technology leadership experience.
• Deep expertise in private cloud platforms, including VMware, Nutanix, or equivalent hyperconverged infrastructure.
• Hands-on data center infrastructure experience, including Compute, Storage (SAN/NAS and tiered storage), Server virtualization.
• Working knowledge of data center networking, including MPLS, SDN, Cloud connectivity.
• Familiarity with mainframe operations, including z/OS or equivalent, from an architectural perspective.
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure platforms or cloud-hosted AI services.
• Demonstrated ability to govern enterprise technology standards and reference architectures.
• Experience operating in multi-vendor government IT/MSI operating model environments.
• Strong cross-domain technical leadership and executive communication skills.
• Ability to credibly represent Private Cloud, Network, Mainframe, AI/ML, infrastructure, and related technology domains to senior government stakeholders.
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required agency clearance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the single point of accountability to the DIR for performance and incident management across all technology domains.
• Provide technology planning, optimization, service evolution, and innovation across Private Cloud, Network, Mainframe, and AI Platform if implemented.
• Govern the Infrastructure Reference Architecture, including quarterly architecture updates, CMDB integration, and standard products list management.
• Monitor the environment for nonstandard product introduction and facilitate appropriate governance decisions.
• Coordinate with the Security Director on threat remediation and security posture.
• Manage infrastructure currency, maintaining systems within one major release of the current version.
• Provide technical leadership and governance across all applicable infrastructure and technology domains.
• Ensure technology decisions remain aligned with enterprise architecture, service requirements, security requirements, and contractual objectives.
• Provide cross-domain technical leadership in a complex multi-vendor/MSI government IT operating environment.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Technology leadership

Executive communication

Cross-domain leadership

Incident management

Tools

VMware

Nutanix

z/OS

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Technical Manager who will own technology planning, optimization, service evolution, and innovation across Private Cloud, Network, Mainframe, and AI Platform. The role is the single point of accountability for performance and incident management within a multi-vendor government IT environment.

The candidate must be a US citizen, with 10 years of infrastructure leadership, and willingness to relocate to or be located in the Austin, TX area. This is an on-site position.