Senior Platform Engineer () with Security Clearance

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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. 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. Skills • Active and transferable U.S. government issued TS/SCI / CI Poly security clearance is required prior to start date. • 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 Qualifications We Prefer • 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

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