DevOps​/Platform Engineer, SME

Would you like to perform rewarding work while contributing to the success of an established, growing company? Navstar is an award-winning organization that has a proven track record of successfully providing IT services and solutions both as a prime and sub-contractor on mission-focused IT programs. Our employees are integral players in support of mission-critical programs focused on our National Security.

Navstar is seeking an experienced, hands-on Dev Ops / Platform Engineer to help build and operate an internally managed Platform as a Service (PaaS) within an AWS cloud environment. Built on Amazon EKS and supporting Kubernetes services, the platform will enable application teams to securely build, deploy, and operate their software.

This is a working engineering role with a strong emphasis on writing, testing, and maintaining code. The selected candidate will develop infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, reusable deployment configurations, and developer tooling that make cloud adoption practical for application teams with little or no AWS or Kubernetes experience.

The ideal candidate combines software engineering skills with experience operating cloud platforms. They will work directly with developers to onboard applications, resolve deployment challenges, and turn recurring manual tasks into reliable, reusable automation.

Position Responsibilities

Write, test, review, and maintain code that provisions infrastructure, configures platform services, automates application delivery, and supports day-to-day operations.

Build and improve an internally operated PaaS using AWS, Amazon EKS, and supporting Kubernetes technologies.

Onboard application teams with limited cloud experience through hands-on implementation, pairing, practical documentation, and reusable examples.

Work with developers to assess application requirements and implement containerization, configuration management, secrets integration, health checks, resource settings, and deployment strategies.

Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code modules, Helm charts, deployment templates, and self-service workflows that reduce the effort required to adopt the platform.

Build and maintain CI/CD and Git Ops workflows that automate builds, testing, security checks, artifact publishing, deployments, and rollbacks.

Configure and integrate platform capabilities such as ingress, service-to-service networking, identity and access management, secrets management, and observability.

Implement monitoring, logging, dashboards, and actionable alerts using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Cloud Watch; help application teams use them to diagnose problems.

Troubleshoot issues across application code, containers, Kubernetes, networking, AWS services, and delivery pipelines, and implement durable fixes.

Embed security controls and vulnerability remediation into platform code and delivery workflows in collaboration with security and cloud engineering teams.

Maintain platform components through upgrades, configuration changes, and operational improvements, with appropriate testing and recovery procedures.

Contribute to technical design decisions while remaining directly responsible for implementation, code reviews, documentation, and delivery.

• To be eligible for this position you must hold an active TS/SCI clearance.

Active TS/SCI U.S. Security Clearance.

10+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, Dev Ops, platform engineering, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Associate degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related technical field.

Strong hands-on programming experience with Python, Go, or another…