Sr. Platform Engineer
Logistics Management Institute5 months ago
Washington, DC, USASenior
Base Salary
$101k - $192k/yr
Responsibilities
- Improve the full lifecycle of platform services, including inception, design, deployment, operation, and refinement.
- Design software platforms and frameworks, support capacity planning, and conduct launch reviews.
- Build and maintain automated build and deployment pipelines, including security-scan-based pipeline procedures.
- Automate routine tasks and scale systems sustainably through automation.
- Measure and monitor availability, latency, and overall system health of live services.
- Improve reliability and delivery velocity through platform changes and participate in incident response and retrospectives.
- Provide technical guidance to software development and platform infrastructure teams on code development and deployment.
- Manage version control of release artifacts to support upgrades and rollbacks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 7–10 years of experience as a Platform Engineer.
- At least 5 years of programming experience in Python, including debugging, code optimization, and task automation.
- Eligibility to obtain a security clearance and U.S. citizenship.
- Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems and containerization of web applications.
- Experience building continuous, automated build and deployment pipelines, including procedures conditioned on security scans of source code and artifacts.
- Experience with container orchestration engines such as K8s, EKS, AKS, GKE, Kops, or OpenShift.
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD and Bash shell scripting.
- Ability to provide meaningful guidance across software development and platform infrastructure teams and work effectively in a cross-functional environment.
- Preferred qualifications include Agile, Lean, DevOps, Cloud, Security+, or another professional certification; familiarity with DoD and federal security standards; knowledge of the Army software development process; agile software development experience; and consultant/client-environment experience.
Benefits
- Quarterly travel is required for in-person team planning and collaboration events.
- Position is based in Washington, DC.
- The role provides end-to-end ownership on a small, cross-functional team building a high-visibility federal platform.
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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.