Platform Engineer
Logistics Management Institute15 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$101k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, operate, maintain, and continuously improve platform services.
- Support new service launches through architecture discussions, infrastructure development, capacity planning, technical reviews, and deployment readiness assessments.
- Design, build, maintain, and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines for secure application delivery.
- Integrate security scanning, automated testing, and compliance checks into build and deployment workflows.
- Develop and maintain Python and Bash automation for infrastructure operations and engineering efficiency.
- Monitor production availability, latency, performance, and system health to maintain platform reliability.
- Manage containerized applications and Kubernetes environments, including deployments, resources, troubleshooting, and operational improvements.
- Manage release artifacts, versioning, deployment strategies, upgrades, and rollback capabilities.
- Collaborate with software development and infrastructure teams to resolve technical challenges and improve application performance and reliability.
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and retrospectives.
Requirements
- 7–10 years of experience in DevSecOps engineering, platform engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
- At least 5 years of Python programming experience, including debugging, optimization, and infrastructure automation.
- Strong understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems and experience administering and troubleshooting Linux environments.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines, including GitLab CI/CD.
- Experience integrating automated security scans of source code and build artifacts into deployment pipelines.
- Experience with containerization technologies and deploying and managing containerized web applications.
- Hands-on Kubernetes and container orchestration experience with technologies such as Amazon EKS, AKS, GKE, or OpenShift.
- Experience managing release artifacts, version control, deployment rollouts, upgrades, and rollback procedures.
- Proficiency with Bash scripting and command-line tools for system administration, troubleshooting, and automation.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, collaboration, and technical ownership skills.
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a security clearance.
Benefits
- Remote position in the United States.
- The role offers work on a secure, high-visibility platform supporting federal agencies.
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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.