Senior Platform Engineer 101621 with Security Clearance

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Job description

Senior Platform Engineer
Location: Richardson, TX.
Required Clearance: Top Secret/SCI with CI Poly Since 1999, ITEC has been a powerhouse in supporting mission-critical programs for the DoD and Intelligence community, building a solid reputation along the way. At ITEC, we don't just care for our employees-we champion them with competitive salaries, an outstanding employee care program, and a benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, and a 401k. U.S. Citizenship Mandatory: Due to our US federal government contract, candidates for this position are required to be a US Citizen and will be subject to a background investigation. Job Description: As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will herald a transformative era in software engineering, one that underscores the integration of development and operations through a single, comprehensive platform. Platform engineers, with their comprehensive technical and problem-solving skills, are shaping the future of software development to efficiently deliver high-quality, secure software, by providing automated services that enable SW engineers to focus on developing mission capabilities. The role's core responsibility revolves around empowering development teams with a robust platform that streamlines processes, enhances collaboration, and accelerates release cycles, thereby driving efficiency and innovation. You will be on a team that is responsible for development and operational environments consisting of a mix of servers, workstations, storage, networks, and custom hardware. These environments provide the enterprise hybrid-cloud backbone for product development and testing for 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. Job Responsibilities: 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 on-premises cloud 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 DevOps teams to design and implement development and mission solutions.
Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management.
Provide operational support for the platform.
Administrative fluency with the following (or vendor equivalent): Red Hat Linux (v7+, 8+ preferred), Rancher.
Experience troubleshooting applications & infrastructure services on Linux based OS.
Required Skills: Typically requires BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics and 5+ years of related work experience.
Experience with automation frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.
Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration.
Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Rancher.
Desired Skills: Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab).
Exposure to Cloud based web services such as AWS.
Knowledge of secure coding practices such as OWASP, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.
Experience with Networking Concepts and architectures.
Experience with scanning tools (E.g. Nessus, Fortify, Anchore).
Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience with compute, networks, storage, and virtualization.
Experience developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a DevSecOps framework.
Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Bash, Perl, Ruby, C++).
Current DoD 8570 certification (CompTIA Security +, CCNA) or ability to obtain within 90 days.
Recruiter: Lerin Merry ITEC is a wholly owned subsidiary of ManpowerGroup Public Sector.

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