# Platform Architect

Requirements: 10+ years building distributed systems; 5+ years leading platform architecture or platform engineering at enterprise scale. Proven delivery of a platform used by multiple teams or customers (multi-tenant SaaS/PaaS or internal developer platform). Production experience shipping LLM/RAG or search-heavy systems with measurable reliability controls: evaluation harnesses, regression gating, monitoring, and incident response. Strong security architecture fundamentals: identity, authorisation, encryption/secrets, audit trails, and governance. Track record of driving execution: architecture, build plan, delivery, operational handover. Experience in regulated industries (financial services a plus): audit requirements, sensitive data handling, governance. Experience running cloud-neutral architectures (or multi-cloud) and Kubernetes-based platforms. Experience with hybrid retrieval systems (keyword + vector) and entitlements-aware retrieval patterns. Experience setting up FinOps guardrails for variable-cost workloads (LLM usage, GPU/compute). What success looks like (first 90-120 days): Published platform reference architecture, security model, and release/evaluation gates with

- **Id**: 1079696
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/synthesis-platform-architect>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-20T16:15:33Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-09-20T16:15:33Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1459
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 1042240
- **Name**: SYNTHESIS
- **Domain**: synthesis.inc
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/synthesis-5>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **FinOps** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Management years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-20T16:15:33Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 16
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.4
- **P active**: 0.716
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 45
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: seen:45, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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