Principal Architect

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Principal Architect for AI-Augmented Infrastructure to join our team in a fully remote capacity.

The Principal Architect for AI-Augmented Infrastructure will lead the technical design and implementation of our AI-First operational environment, architecting resilient multi-cloud networks across major public cloud providers and building autonomous orchestration layers using the Agentic Community's MCP Gateway Registry.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Architecting and deploying production-grade Code Mode MCP servers across enterprise systems like SASE platforms, UEM tools, ITSM systems, SD-WAN controllers, cloud-based network management platforms, IAM solutions, and centralized network security management systems to enable secure LLM interaction.
• Building unified, autonomous orchestration layers leveraging the Agentic Community's MCP Gateway Registry while establishing agent identity management and permission scoping to enforce Zero Trust security models across AI agent interactions.
• Overseeing the architectural design of resilient multi-cloud environments using cloud-native networking fabrics, including Shared VPCs, Cloud Routers, and secure Cloud Interconnects.
• Aligning network controls and micro-segmentation with NIST 800-207 Zero Trust frameworks and automating centralized security governance and policy distribution globally utilizing centralized network security management platforms.
• Engineering and maintaining centralized Infrastructure as Code (IaC) libraries with open-source infrastructure provisioning tools to govern cloud assets.
• Implementing automated rightsizing and spend tracking to optimize inference compute costs and cloud resource spend.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Master's degree in Information Technology, or equivalent degree with highly progressive network engineering and architecture experience.
• Significant experience architecting enterprise AI fabrics and Agentic NetDevOps orchestration layers for large-scale operations.
• Extensive background engineering multi-cloud network architectures across major public cloud environments, including GCP, Azure, AWS, and OCI.
• Demonstrated expertise maintaining large-scale IaC architectures utilizing modern infrastructure provisioning modules.
• Proven background implementing cloud resource FinOps with automated spend tracking and rightsizing.
• Proven capability in managing centralized security governance, micro-segmentation, and Zero Trust implementations at an enterprise scale.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep technical expertise with the Agentic Community's MCP Gateway Registry and Code Mode MCP server deployment.
• Advanced expertise in automated micro-segmentation and security policy distribution across global multi-cloud networks.
• Strong leadership skills with a track record of driving cross-functional alignment between engineering, security, and enterprise operations teams.

Clearance Requirements:

• US Citizen

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%.
• Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.