Platform Engineer with Security Clearance

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Job description

Platform Engineer Aurora, CO Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Compensation Range: $130,000 - $155,000 Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense. Job Responsibilities: The roles core responsibility is for providing the design, development, implementation, and integration of a predominantly cloud based compute/network/storage infrastructure. Support modernizing the program platform's over-arching design through new emerging technologies and use of DevOps/DevSecOps tools and automation in-order to streamline processes, enhance collaboration, and accelerate the release cycles, thereby driving efficiency and innovation. You will be on a team that is responsible for development and operational environments on a large program producing a critical, strategic national asset. This will include a mixture of hands-on keyboard engineering work as well as documentation and baseline control. Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure. Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across cloud-based computing environments. Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management. Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and other agile development teams to design and implement robust platform solutions. Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management. Provide operational support for the platform. Required Skills: Experience with RedHat Linux Experience with Cloud based technologies, preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS)/ Commercial Cloud Services (C2S). Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker. Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Ruby, Bash, C++, C#, Go). Experience with troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based Operating Systems. Must meet DoD 8570 IAT level II requirements (Security + CE or equivalent) Company Benefits: Cornerstone Defense offers a comprehensive list of benefits, designed to give employees and their families several options to choose from when selecting benefits that best fit their needs. These offerings include not only a full suite of the traditional Medical/Dental/Vision insurances, but also a number of other benefits and perks to include, but not limited to: A 401(K) plan with a company match, tuition and training assistances, paid vacation/leave, a fitness reimbursement program, college savings plan, commuter benefits, financial advisory services, flex spending accounts, health savings accounts, STD/LTD coverage, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance programs, life financial planning assistance, and legal resources.

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