Platform Engineer; Experienced or Senior

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

The Boeing Company has an exciting opportunity for a Platform Engineer (Experienced or Senior) to join Boeing Defense, Space & Security in Berkeley, MO . This role focuses on platform engineering, build automation, legacy systems support, and cloud modernization in support of mission-critical engineering and software development environments.

You will help maintain and modernize internal engineering tools, build systems, and automation workflows in support of a secure, cloud-based infrastructure environment. In this role, you will work closely with software developers, mission systems engineers, and other technical stakeholders to improve developer productivity, streamline release processes, and enable reliable software delivery across the program.

The ideal candidate is a strong technical problem solver with experience in software development, infrastructure automation, and cloud engineering. This position requires a hands‑on engineer who can support legacy environments while helping improve tools, pipelines, and deployment infrastructure across the program.

• Lead platform engineering efforts in support of mission-critical software development and delivery environments

• Maintain, troubleshoot, and refactor legacy internal engineering tools, build scripts, and automation utilities

• Design and develop custom software tools and automation solutions to support engineering workflows and program needs

• Support and improve secure, cloud-based infrastructure environments used by the program

• Architect, provision, and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code practices

• Modernize legacy build and release processes into secure, repeatable CI/CD workflows

• Containerize legacy applications, build tools, and dependencies to improve reproducibility and consistency

• Work closely with software developers to improve local development environments and remove build bottlenecks

• Collaborate with mission systems engineers and other technical stakeholders to support platform stability and engineering efficiency

• Apply analytical problem‑solving skills to resolve infrastructure, tooling, and build‑related issues

• Document engineering practices and platform processes to support replication, scaling, and continuous improvement

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior engineers as needed

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite in Berkeley, MO.

• This position requires the ability to obtain a US Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship as a condition of employment (An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start may be required)

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 3+ years of experience with programming in C, C++ or C#

• Experience with scripting, particularly in shell scripting in sh and csh variants, Bash, Python, and PERL

• 1+ years of experience with AWS Services,
  
  E.g. VPC, IAM, EC2, Auto‑scaling, ELB, ECR, S3, DynamoDB, Postgres (RDS), Lambda, SQS, SNS, RDS, VPC, Route 53, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, AWS Config, Cloud trail, AWS Developer Tools etc.

• Experience with Terraform,, Jenkins, Git, and Ansible, Cloud formation, etc.

• Experience with build and test tools such as (or similar to) Boost Build, Boost Test, CMake, and Make

• Level 4 : 9 or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Ability to…