Platform Engineer Senior Principal

Type of

Requisition :
Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret/SCI Public Trust/Other

Required:

None Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

AWS Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Platform, Dev Ops

Certifications:

None

Experience:

7 + years of related experience US Citizenship

Required:

Yes

Iron EagleX is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer Sr Principal to lead the architecture, implementation, and continuous improvement of secure, scalable cloud-native platforms. This position requires extensive experience with Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, cloud networking, infrastructure automation, Dev Sec Ops , and Site Reliability Engineering. The successful candidate will serve as a technical authority across multiple projects, establish platform engineering standards, and help development teams deliver secure and reliable applications more efficiently.

Experience with software development, customer-facing applications, and Internal Developer Platforms is highly desirable.

• Serve as the technical authority for Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, and Dev Sec Ops  architecture across multiple projects.
• Lead the design, implementation, modernization, and continuous improvement of secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-native platforms.
• Design and operate enterprise Kubernetes platforms supporting multiple applications, teams, and deployment environments.
• Architect secure AWS solutions with an emphasis on cloud networking, routing, load balancing, ingress, identity management, resiliency, and zero-trust principles.
• Capture, analyze, and implement customer requirements while ensuring alignment with mission objectives, program priorities, security requirements, and performance expectations.
• Engage throughout the full lifecycle of platform services, including design, development, deployment, operations, monitoring, incident response, and optimization.
• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Git Lab or similar technologies and industry-recognized best practices.
• Define, establish, document, and maintain Dev Sec Ops  standards, processes, governance, and security controls throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, Crossplane, and comparable technologies.
• Standardize the creation, deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management of Helm charts, Kustomize overlays, and Kubernetes-based applications.
• Develop and implement automated testing frameworks, deployment validation processes, and release strategies that improve platform reliability and reduce operational risk.
• Establish and support platform observability using metrics, logs, dashboards, alerting, tracing, and service-level objectives.
• Monitor platform availability, performance, scalability, capacity, and security while proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to improve system resilience, reduce operational toil, and increase service availability.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, security, and application issues while providing root cause analysis and implementing durable corrective actions.
• Conduct architecture reviews, infrastructure reviews, code reviews, and technical design sessions.
• Review and validate application architectures, infrastructure designs, deployment patterns, and technical implementation plans.
• Onboard application development teams to standardized cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployment patterns, and operational processes.
• Develop automation and platform capabilities…