Platform Engineer
Logistics Management Institute7 hours ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$92k - $158k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own platform-related tenant issues and service requests from investigation through resolution.
- Troubleshoot Kubernetes, application deployment, CI/CD, identity and access management, networking, AWS infrastructure, and platform integration problems.
- Work directly with tenant development teams to diagnose root causes and implement sustainable solutions.
- Support tenant onboarding, environment provisioning, application deployments, access management, and ongoing platform operations.
- Contribute to platform infrastructure, services, engineering workflows, automation, tooling, and infrastructure improvements.
- Create technical documentation, troubleshooting guides, and operational procedures.
- Participate in monitoring, incident response, maintenance, and platform reliability improvements.
- Identify technical debt and recurring issues and develop improvements that reduce manual intervention and improve tenant self-service.
Requirements
- 2–5+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Hands-on experience with Linux, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
- Experience supporting and troubleshooting applications in containerized or cloud-native environments.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git-based development workflows, and infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform and Helm.
- Strong troubleshooting skills, including log analysis, infrastructure and application investigation, and root-cause analysis.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, ingress, connectivity, and common application networking issues.
- Experience working directly with developers or technical users to investigate issues and implement solutions.
- Ability to independently manage technical issues, prioritize competing requests, and drive problems through resolution.
- Strong communication, collaboration, ownership, and continuous-improvement skills.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a security clearance; applicants must meet U.S. Government security-clearance eligibility requirements.
Benefits
- U.S.-remote work arrangement.
- Opportunity to work on a secure PaaS supporting critical federal applications.
- Opportunity to contribute to platform automation, documentation, reliability, and technical capabilities.
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.