Principal Platform Engineer
Clarity Innovations3 months ago
Herndon, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$106k - $293k/yr
Responsibilities
- Automate edge provisioning and configuration using Ansible, Terraform, custom deployment pipelines, and scripting tools.
- Develop and maintain distributed edge infrastructure spanning on-premises hardware, compute, storage, networking, operating systems, enterprise applications, and middleware.
- Implement monitoring and observability for distributed clusters, analyze performance and capacity trends, and proactively resolve system issues.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, long-term remediation, system upgrades, migrations, capacity expansions, and disaster recovery efforts.
- Optimize containerized and AI/ML inference workloads for deployment at edge locations.
- Build CI/CD pipelines and over-the-air deployment processes for remote software updates.
- Manage secure networking, access controls, user permissions, compliance, system resilience, redundancy, and failover across distributed platforms.
- Act as a technical liaison among customers, vendors, software engineers, operations teams, security teams, and internal stakeholders.
- Design, deploy, and manage edge infrastructure at remote sites while maintaining comprehensive technical and lifecycle documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience deploying and managing on-premises or edge-computing environments with distributed nodes.
- Deep understanding of systems administration and networking across Linux, Windows, and/or virtualized platforms.
- Strong containerization and orchestration experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, or OpenShift.
- Knowledge of secure routing and distributed-systems networking, including VPNs, SD-WAN, and firewalls.
- Proficiency with automation and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Bash, and PowerShell.
- Familiarity with CI/CD workflows for distributed deployments and strong troubleshooting skills across hardware, software, and networks.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a TS Security Clearance; only U.S. citizens are eligible for security clearance.
- Preferred experience includes edge-specific hardware, constrained environments, zero-trust networking, remote attestation, SDN, network virtualization, classified environments, Prometheus, Grafana, RMF, NIST 800-53, DISA STIGs, threat detection, incident response, network forensics, load balancers, WAN optimization, systems segmentation, and automated testing.
- Current Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility and familiarity with the Cyber Operations Domain are preferred.
- Willingness and eligibility to travel OCONUS up to 10–20% annually and CONUS 5% annually.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Opportunities to develop, deliver, and optimize mission-critical edge-computing platforms.
- Career growth in distributed systems and hybrid-cloud infrastructure.
- Collaborative engineering culture solving real-world challenges at scale.
- Location options include on-site in Herndon, hybrid, or remote with travel to edge locations; the role expects on-site work in Herndon 3–4 days per week.
- Travel may include OCONUS travel of up to 10–20% annually and CONUS travel of 5% annually.
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About Clarity Innovations
Clarity Innovations builds and deploys custom software, data analytics platforms, and cloud solutions for U.S. government customers, especially the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. Its teams provide DevSecOps, systems architecture, rapid prototyping, and UX/UI services to modernize mission systems and workflows. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, it is privately held and operates as part of Chameleon Consulting Group.