Platform Engineer TS/SCI
Fulltime Perm Hybrid (1 day onsite)
Washington DC
$170K$232K
As a Platform Engineer you ll play a critical role in architecting deploying and managing our customer s core platform ensuring its availability performance and security with the goal of making an impact across the federal government.
Must Have s:
- 8 years of professional experience as a Platform Engineer or in a similar role.
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- Extensive expertise in designing and implementing highly available scalable and secure platform architectures.
- Proficiency in AWS (Azure a plus) with a deep understanding of cloud services and networking.
- Strong handson experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker Kubernetes; specifically experience with Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Experience building and/or deploying a data protectionasaservice (DPAAS) solution.
- Indepth knowledge of infrastructureascode (IaC) tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or Ansible.
- Demonstrated experience in building and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Artifactory GitHub Jenkins SonarQube.
- Solid scripting and programming skills in languages like Python Go Ruby or similar.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus Grafana ELK stack etc.
- Excellent problemsolving skills with the ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex system issues.
- Experience working on an Agile development team and relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Certified Kubernetes Administrator or equivalent are a plus.
- A bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- Ability to obtain privileged user access
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to design and implement a resilient and scalable platform architecture.
- Lead the planning development and deployment of platform components services and applications.
- Evaluate and select appropriate technologies tools and frameworks to optimize platform performance security and costeffectiveness.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes enabling rapid and reliable software delivery.
- Monitor platform performance identify bottlenecks and proactively optimize systems for maximum efficiency.
- Manage cloudbased infrastructure and orchestration tools to ensure high availability and fault tolerance.
- Drive security best practices throughout the platform implementing measures to safeguard data applications and services.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across the platform stack and provide effective resolutions to minimize downtime.
Location: Multiple Aurora CO Austin TX Colorado Springs CO Huntsville AL Miami FL San Antonio TX St. Louis MO Tampa FL Washington DC
Platform Engineer, DevOps, Azure, AWS, Cloud Engineer, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Python, Elastic, IaC, Grafana