Platform Engineer - Clearance Required
Logistics Management Institute3 days ago
Colorado Springs, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$101k - $173k/yr
Responsibilities
- Support the full lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
- Provide system design consulting, platform and framework development, capacity planning, and launch reviews before services go live.
- Automate operational tasks and maintain services by monitoring availability, latency, and system health.
- Scale systems sustainably and implement changes that improve reliability and development and deployment velocity.
- Build and maintain automated build and deployment pipelines, including security-scan-based pipeline procedures.
- Provide guidance to software development and platform infrastructure teams on code development and deployment.
- Manage version control of release artifacts to support upgrade rollouts and rollbacks.
- Participate in sustainable incident response and retrospectives.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI security clearance is required.
- 7-10 years of experience as a DevSecOps Engineer is required.
- At least 5 years of programming experience in Python is required, including debugging, code optimization, and task automation.
- Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems, automated build and deployment pipelines, and security-scan-based pipeline controls is required.
- Knowledge of containerizing web applications and container orchestration engines such as K8s, EKS, AKS, GKE, Kops, or OpenShift is required.
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD and Bash shell scripting is required.
- Ability to collaborate with software development and platform infrastructure teams and provide meaningful technical guidance is required.
- In-depth knowledge of release-artifact version control for upgrade rollout and rollback is required.
- Familiarity with Agile, Lean, DevOps, cloud environments, DoD IT standards, and federal security standards is desired.
- Security+ or another professional certification, knowledge of the Army software development process and its technologies, agile software development experience, and consultant/client experience are desired.
- Strong communication, systematic problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills are required.
Benefits
- Job location: Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- Target salary range: $101,145-$173,000.
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About Logistics Management Institute
Logistics Management Institute (LMI) provides consulting, software development, and analytics services to U.S. federal agencies, with strengths in supply chain, digital engineering, AI, and modeling and simulation. It builds and sustains government systems—such as Army acquisition and contract-writing platforms—while delivering data-driven modernization and program support across defense, space, healthcare, and energy. Founded in 1961 and headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI operates as a privately held contractor to the public sector.