Infrastructure Engineer IV

Start Date: Immediate JHNA, CTSi, and EXPANSIA have come together to form a Defense Technology platform named Aether Aerospace focused on delivering high-impact technologies, technology-enabled services and advanced manufacturing solutions to the U.S. Department of Defense and related national security customers. Backed by Falfurrias Management Partners, the platform brings together deep domain expertise across Army, Navy, and Air Force and Space Force programs, digital engineering, systems integration, and specialized manufacturing capabilities. The combined organization operates as a multi-entity aerospace and defense technology and tech-enabled services and manufacturing enterprise positioned for scalable growth, operational excellence, and long-term value creation OVERVIEW Full-time/Permanent Employee Location: Remote, preferred Boston, MA or Dayton, OH As Chief Architect, you will provide technical leadership across complex U.S. Air Force programs, guiding the integration of systems engineering, software delivery, cloud platforms, and digital engineering capabilities. You will establish the architectural vision, principles, standards, and technical roadmaps needed to connect mission needs with executable program solutions. Working across Government, contractor, and mission-partner organizations, you will shape architectures that support capability development from concept and requirements through design, integration, test, deployment, sustainment, and modernization. You will promote disciplined systems engineering, model-based approaches, modular open systems, secure software factories, and reusable digital infrastructure while balancing mission effectiveness, affordability, schedule, cybersecurity, interoperability, and technical risk. You will serve as a senior technical authority, align diverse engineering teams, resolve cross-domain architectural issues, and communicate complex technical decisions to program leadership, customers, and stakeholders. RESPONSIBILTIES Strong knowledge of cloud computing in a DoD context including industry standard tooling and major cloud service providers. Broad understanding and wide application of technical principle, theories, and concepts in the fields of cloud computing and Infrastructure-as-a-Service. Serves as a senior technical expert working in engineering teams of teams environment across architecture, infrastructure, platform, migration, network, hardware, software, integration, and verification efforts. Provides requirement decomposition/definition and engineering expertise to assure program DOD requirements are developed and sustained. Fully support program architect and staff engineering efforts. Possesses a strong expertise in DOD areas such as command and control, intelligence, acquisition, data handling, space, and cyber, and intelligence data handling. Experience, knowledge and adherence to sound engineering lifecycle workflow principles across hardware, software, network, interfaces, high-level/detail design, integration, verification, and regression testing. Provide technical solutions to a wide range of complex difficult problems. Solutions are imaginative, thorough, practicable, and consistent with program objectives. Determines and develops approach to solutions. Directs and/or participates in all phases of risk management assessments (including cyber) and software/hardware. General knowledge of other related disciplines. Performs other related duties as assigned KEY QUALIFICATIONS Clearance: Active TS/SCI Education and Years of Experience: Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or Similar Discipline with at least 8 years of relevant experience. CompTIA Cloud+ or Security +; GICSP, SSCP, or GSEC PREFERRED ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS Master’s or other advanced degree in Information Technology or Similar Discipline . Certifications in one or more of the following: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or similar certifications Aether Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.