Trace3
Datacenter Architect
$165K–$198K
Linthicum Heights, MD +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Location
- Linthicum Heights, MD
Washington D.C.
About the job
Leads customer-facing discovery, design, and modernization of secure on-premises and hybrid datacenter environments for regulated and mission-critical customers.
What you'll do
- Lead discovery workshops and translate mission, workload, operational, and security needs into actionable architectures.
- Design datacenter and hybrid-cloud solutions spanning compute, networking, storage, virtualization, containers, automation, and cybersecurity.
- Produce architecture designs, roadmaps, sizing and implementation materials, and present recommendations to customer and executive audiences.
What they ask for
- Experience as a customer-facing technical lead, enterprise or solutions architect, principal engineer, or equivalent on complex datacenter or infrastructure modernization initiatives.
- Substantive architecture experience across modern datacenter infrastructure, including compute, networking, storage, virtualization, containers, and management.
- Experience designing or integrating hybrid-cloud architectures involving Microsoft Azure Government and Microsoft GCC-High.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance; able to work independently and travel to customer or partner locations as needed.
Nice to have
- Relevant vendor certifications or equivalent hands-on expertise.
- Practical experience with Terraform, Ansible, APIs, CI/CD, GitOps, or policy-driven provisioning.
Pay
$185,001 to $198,458.50 (base salary); $165,000 — $185,000 USD (estimated pay range; pay type not specified)
Tools
VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Microsoft Azure Government, Microsoft GCC-High, GitOps
AI focus
Architects datacenter infrastructure for AI workloads, including accelerated/GPU compute and network performance for AI and data-intensive workloads.
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