Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Capacity Management, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Computer Security, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Customer Relations, Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL), DevOps, Federal Compliance Regulations, Federal Government, GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), Government, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Linux Operating System, Logistics, Machine Learning, Maintain Compliance, Marketing, Operational Support Systems (OSS), Pre-Sales, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Process Management, Product Engineering, Production Systems, Professional Services, Puppet (Configuration Management), Risk Management Framework (RMF), Sales, Sales Support, Secret Clearance, Security Architecture, Security Clearance, Security Compliance, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), Service Level Agreement (SLA), Software Engineering, Software Patches, System Architecture, System Integration (SI), Systems Administration/Management, Technical Support, Time Management, Top Secret Clearance, Willing to Travel, Writing Skills
As a member of the Professional Services team, AI Architects help position, sell, and support our platform as the gold standard for AI in enterprises and overcome any barriers to delivering for customers. You will work hand-in-hand with Customer Success, Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing to help us bring our platform to clients and prospects in the public sector space.
You will be responsible for providing the technical expertise to support the installation, configuration, upgrading, and integration of our products into customer environments. You will have a broad range of skills and experience spanning systems architecture, ETL flow design, security engineering, cloud computing, Kubernetes orchestration, and more. You will have demonstrated experience deploying and maintaining technical platforms in both unclassified and classified environments, navigating federal security and compliance requirements, and responding to Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) to ensure platform integrity and operational continuity. You will have the insight to make the connection between a customer s specific business problems and our solution and the customer-facing skills to communicate that connection and vision to a wide variety of technical and executive audiences. Furthermore you will have the skills to provide consultative assistance on architecture and implementation of the customer s business problem, usually through partnership with IT teams within federal government agencies.
As the AI Architect for the Federal Sector, you will also serve as a liaison between Product, Engineering, and the Federal business. You will apply your expertise in Federal infosec requirements, the Risk Management Framework, and FedRAMP and Agency authorization processes to inform how the Product evolves to meet Federal requirements and maintain continuous Authority to Operate (ATO).
Requirements:
- Shares our passion for delivering AI and machine learning for enterprises and thrives in the dynamic AI environment.
- Lead the professional services effort to plan and execute successful installations, upgrades, and security accreditation in Federal customer base, including managing CVE remediation and timely patch response within classified and sensitive environments.
- Have the flexibility and willingness to jump in and get what needs to be done to make us and our customers successful.
- Provide consultative assistance on architecture and implementation.
- Deploy and operate solutions within FedRAMP Authorized, IL5, and IL6 classified environments, ensuring compliance with applicable security controls, continuous monitoring requirements, and CVE response SLAs.
- Support pre-sales activities including architectural overviews, security review, and scoping of professional services activities.
- Keep up to date on the ever-evolving technologies for systems architecture, AI/ML, and LLM/MLOps to be an authoritative resource for both internal and customers.
- Work collaboratively with a broad range of people inside and outside the company.
- May support, oversee, and/or train technical members of partner organizations as it pertains to architecture, administration, and maintenance of the platform.
- This opportunity is contingent on security clearance validation.
Expertise:
- Federal Domain Mastery: 7+ years in Federal engineering with 3+ years supporting IL5/IL6+ environments. You must have a proven track record navigating the full ATO lifecycle, managing RMF processes, and handling Continuous Monitoring (ConMon) for FedRAMP and Agency-specific authorizations.
- Kubernetes and Secure Enclaves: Deep production expertise with AKS, EKS, or OpenShift. You are an expert at architecting and maintaining production-grade clusters in air-gapped, egress-constrained, or "high-side" disconnected environments (CKA/CKAD preferred).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced proficiency with Terraform/OpenTofu for immutable infrastructure provisioning and Ansible/Puppet for automated configuration management and drift detection.
- Linux Hardening & SecOps: Hands-on mastery of Linux systems with a focus on STIG/CIS hardening, automated patch management, and rapid CVE/vulnerability triage within secure enclaves.
- System Administration: Operational support for production systems covering for system administration, integrations, monitoring, capacity planning, user provisioning, and coordination of maintenance windows.
- Modern DevSecOps: Demonstrated experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines on K8s using tools like GitLab, Helm, Flux, or Argo.
- AI/ML Infrastructure: Understanding of the infrastructure requirements for AI/ML workloads, including GPU partitioning/scheduling, model serving architecture, and data egress challenges in a federal context.
- Strategic Communication: Excellent oral and written skills, with the ability to translate complex technical risks into actionable insights for technical teams and executive stakeholders.
- Education: Bachelors in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent high-level work experience.
- Clearance: Active Secret clearance (required); TS/SCI (highly preferred).
- Logistics: Willingness to be on-site at local (DC area) client facilities up to 50% during peak project phases, with approximately 20% regional travel.
Bonus points:
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification.
Citizenship and Clearance Requirements:
- Must have an active Secret clearance
For consideration, please submit your resume as a MS Word attachment to careers@consortiuminc.com
The Consortium
"Combining Talent with Technology"
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The Consortium, Inc.
The Consortium is a staffing and professional services organization focused on the Information Technology industry. Our experience and structure allow us to provide our undivided attention to our client’s business challenges and resource needs while providing the best career guidance and opportunities to our employees and consultants. Our goal and mission is to provide cost effective solutions while allowing our clients the time to focus on projects and deliverables and not sorting through stacks of unqualified resumes.
The Consortium’s business practices, decades of knowledge, and extensive industry experience enable us to provide talented highly skilled people who make a significant contribution to our customer’s objectives in a very short period of time. The Consortium is managed by four partners averaging over 17 years experience in information technology recruiting and professional services management. The Consortium’s agile and responsive team is capable of quickly identifying and screening properly qualified people for all technical skill sets saving our clients valuable time when reviewing candidates.
We offer a wide array of services including:
Contingency Permanent Placement- HeadHunting
We identify, evaluate and introduce employees for your permanent staff. We earn our fee when the individual becomes your employee and remains on your payroll until the guarantee period expires.
Temporary To Permanent
We identify the individual; perform an evaluation; introduce the applicant and you make the selection. We will put the person on our payroll for a defined period of time after which you make her/him a permanent member of your staff. The specific terms will be negotiated on a case by case basis which may include no additional fee or a reduced fee depending on the initial terms. The advantage of this approach allows you to evaluate the individual on a daily basis before deciding to “permanentize” her/him and, to spread your costs out over an extended period.
Staff Augmentation
We will provide you a contractor for a temporary period of time. This approach is implemented when the client: 1. needs people to complete a project and has no anticipated need after completion; 2. does not have a permanent “head count” budget; or 3. when the client has been unable to identify an individual with a required expertise on an expeditious basis. During the term of the assignment, should the client wish to permanently employ the contractor, The Consortium will be pleased to negotiate terms amenable to the client.
Retained Search
Retained searches are entered into when the client desires fully focused recruitment of a key individual. This arrangement requires that The Consortium use its full resources including its network of friends of the company, sourcing and researching. The Consortium commits to a one hundred percent effort on behalf of the retainer client only and guarantees that applicants identified for this undertaking will not be referred to other clients until a release is granted. The Consortium, after identifying candidates, will have an appropriate Advisory Board member assist in evaluation. A resume, references and a Consortium profile will be provided to the client prior to interview and The Consortium personnel will remain intimately involved throughout the entire process.
20 to 49 employees
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