Senior Platform Engineer (DevSecOps)

Description

The company is hiring a senior platform engineer for its DevSecOps team to design, build and grow its applications and technologies.

You will enable a multidisciplinary engineering group working on a cloud-hosted force protection system that includes a Digital Twin environment.

You will partner with RF hardware engineers, system designers and other stakeholders to deliver a reliable, high-performance RF system and Digital Twin.

The company wants a self-driven technical leader who does well in agile teams and picks up new technologies and requirements quickly.

Responsibilities

• Write and run services using Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform or a comparable tool.
• Build, tune and maintain production CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab or Jenkins.
• Create and upkeep automation through scripts and other tooling.
• Set up and adjust protective cloud controls, including groups and application gateways.
• Run compute, storage, networking and database services across cloud environments while keeping them within security and compliance frameworks.
• Work with engineers and subject matter experts to add testing into the pipelines.
• Set and enforce security practices for system builds and data privacy.
• Provision Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes environments across multiple security domains, in cloud, data center and edge settings.
• Run trade studies to choose open-source, commercial or existing government technologies, weighing security, supportability, performance, cost, user experience and time to operations.
• Coordinate with other teams on integration needs and scale existing platforms to meet them.
• Work with Security to stay compliant and build secure solutions.

Requirements

• Required: US citizenship.
• Required: An active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Required: A BS or BA plus 5 years of experience, or an equivalent combination.
• Required: 5+ years in cloud or infrastructure engineering.
• Required: Deep hands-on experience with one or more of OpenShift, AWS, GCP or Rancher.
• Required: Expert skill with Terraform or similar, with a track record managing infrastructure as code.
• Required: Experience running production Kubernetes clusters (OpenShift or Rancher) that handle processing workloads.
• Required: Experience with containers such as Docker or Podman, and with CI/CD in Gitlab or Jenkins.
• Required: Scripting or programming ability.
• Required: Experience with GitOps using ArgoCD.
• Desired: Linux or Red Hat knowledge.
• Desired: Experience with Digital Twin systems.
• Desired: Experience with the Elastic Stack (Elastic, Logstash, Kibana) or similar.
• Desired: Experience with continuous monitoring and automated security tools.
• Desired: Strong communication skills for presenting to senior leadership.

Conditions

Full-time, regular position.

Up to 10% local travel.

TS/SCI clearance is the minimum needed to start.

Anticipated posting end date: 3/1/2027.

Salary depends on factors including location, Federal Government contract labor categories and wage rates, relevant prior experience, specific skills, education and certifications.

The stated range is the national average, since the role can be filled in more than one location.

Proposed salary range: $82,100-$172,400.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education and time off.
• A flexible time off benefit that lets you take the time you need.
• Access to robust learning resources.
• Competitive pay, benefits and learning and development opportunities.