Platform Systems Engineer

Overview

VTG is seeking a talented and experienced Platform Systems Engineer to join our dynamic and innovative team in Chantilly, VA.

• As a Systems Engineer on this program, you will design, develop, and implement reliable, robust, and resilient systems used by software development teams.
• The Platform Engineer will work with a large team of developers, software engineers, cybersecurity engineers, database administrators, and system architects.
• Applicants for this position are expected to have significant, hands‑on systems engineering experience.
• This role delivers an innovative product, service, or a combination of products and services that address a customer's specific requirements.
• Support the development of enterprise software solutions within the customer's cloud environments.
• This role provides execution guidance and practical engineering support to mission teams.

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• BS degree and 6-10 years of relevant experience
• Must have experience with cloud providers such as AWS
• Experience in Platform engineering
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Working with the team's security engineer to address and mitigate security findings stemming from system security scans
• Performing regular maintenance of cloud infrastructure resources, to include patching, configuration, upgrading as needed
• Experience interacting with cross functional project teams including Software Development System Engineering, Security Compliance, and Quality Assurance
• Demonstratable, working experience with automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Git Hub Actions), Kubernetes, containers, or serverless is strongly preferred.