Platform Operations Engineer
Job in
Bethesda, Montgomery County, Maryland, 20811, USA
Listed on 2026-10-08
Listing for:
RPMGlobal
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-08
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Cybersecurity
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Platform Operations Engineer to join a high-impact team supporting the design, development, and deployment of a modern technology stack for the DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). This role supports the mission to centralize and standardize the Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the Defense Intelligence Enterprise. The position involves ensuring availability, reliability, and performance of a full stack, containerized microservices platform and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities- Ensure uptime, performance, and capacity planning for a large scale big data production platform with a microservice architecture running on Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and technologies such as Java, Python, React, and low code tools like Appian.
- Leverage monitoring tools to proactively detect and resolve issues.
- Lead triage, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post incident reviews.
- Define and track reliability metrics such as SLIs and SLOs.
- Participate in SAFe Agile release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and cross team coordination.
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience; 6+ years with a Master's; additional experience may substitute for a degree.
- At least one DoD 8570.01 M IAT Level II+ certification (e.g., Security+ CE, CySA+, CCNA Security, SSCP, CISSP (or Associate)).
- Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Git Lab pipelines, Linux, and containerized environments.
- Experience supporting enterprise scale production systems.
- Experience with cloud services (preferably AWS) and cloud infrastructure.
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Logstash, Kibana, and Keycloak.
- Demonstrated success in cross functional coordination and execution.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to perform under pressure during incidents.
- Experience with Agile methodologies.
- Experience with creating customized dashboards to track SLIs and other key performance indicators.
- Development experience (Bash, Power Shell, SALT, Python, Groovy, Java, etc.).
- Experience with Appian or other low-code platforms.
- Experience with technologies such as Kafka, AMQP/JMS, Prometheus/Grafana, GPU-based Kubernetes, SALT automation, Nexus, or GraphQL.
- Knowledge of security best practices (authN/Z, secrets management, data protection).
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Cloud Formation, Terraform, Pulumi).
- AWS cloud certifications.
Education and Experience Equivalency
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Master's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience.
- At least one DoD 8570.01 M IAT Level II+ certification (e.g., Security+ CE, CySA+, CCNA Security, SSCP, CISSP (or Associate)).
- Ability to obtain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification.
- Active Top Secret/SCI
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