# Chief Platform Architect

About Zaden Technologies Zaden Technologies is a defense technology company based in Huntsville, Alabama. We build AI, DevSecOps and digital engineering products and put them to work for DoD customers. Turn a 2,000-plus VM test environment into governed, environment-as-code infrastructure that teams can request and get in days, not weeks. You'll support a new Defense Health Agency program. This position is contingent upon contract award, and the start date will align with the program start. What you'll do: Own the platform architecture across on-premises vSphere and AWS, including where each workload belongs Lead environment-as-code and the self-service environment catalog Set platform guardrails, standards and the tooling baseline Lead the platform engineers and work alongside the infrastructure and cyber leads Plan the move to VMware Cloud Foundation 9 and the Atlassian successor path Must have: 10 years in cloud and infrastructure engineering Hands-on Terraform, Ansible and GitLab CI Built automated provisioning inside a DoD RMF-authorized boundary or at IL4 or higher U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and keep the background investigation DHA designates for this positio

- **Id**: 3697530
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zaden-technologies-chief-platform-architect>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chantilly, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T13:48:49Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T00:43:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2467
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Defense Manufacturing, Defense AI

## Company

- **Id**: 685246
- **Name**: Zaden Technologies
- **Domain**: zadentech.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zadentech>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Rippling

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 355
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 168000
- **Max**: 201000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 201000

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **VMWare** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T18:33:05Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 355
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 201000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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