Dev/Sec/Ops Platform Engineer

2 years ago

McLean, VA, USASenior

Responsibilities

Build and operate Kafka or equivalent event-streaming infrastructure, including topic design, reliability patterns, scaling, monitoring, production support, and performance tuning.
Design, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines for repeatable builds and deployments across environments.
Provision and manage AWS GovCloud or Azure Government environments supporting IL5 and other security and compliance expectations.
Implement infrastructure as code for cloud resources, cluster provisioning, network and security configuration, and environment replication using Pulumi, Terraform, and/or Ansible.
Deploy, upgrade, configure, and troubleshoot Kubernetes platforms and workloads, including Helm-based packaging.
Establish logging, metrics, tracing, runbooks, alerting, and incident-response support.
Implement least privilege, secrets management, network segmentation, patching, and other DoD security controls with security and architecture teams.
Drive backup and restore, disaster recovery, performance testing, capacity planning, and other reliability engineering practices.
Partner across application, data, scoring, security, and architecture teams to provide secure platform guardrails and enable faster delivery.

Must maintain an active Top Secret security clearance.
Must hold an active Security+ certificate.
Must be able to obtain an AWS certification, such as Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, within one month after onboarding.
Bachelor’s degree with 5–8 years of experience or master’s degree with 3–6 years of experience.
At least 5 years of DevOps or platform engineering experience delivering and operating systems in a government-cloud environment.
Strong experience with Kafka or equivalent event-streaming platforms, including production support and performance tuning.
Demonstrated experience with Pulumi, Terraform, and/or Ansible for infrastructure as code and configuration management.
Hands-on experience with AWS GovCloud or Azure Government.
Strong Kubernetes experience covering deployments, Helm or equivalent packaging, cluster operations, and workload troubleshooting.
Experience implementing DoD security controls and remediations, including operating-system hardening and patching.
Experience in compliance-driven environments such as IL5 or RMF-aligned programs.
IC and/or DoD experience, strong troubleshooting ability, and an operational ownership mindset.

Remote position.
Travel within the DMV area is expected.
Equal opportunity employer, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

501-1,000 employees