Senior Platform Developer; Aurora, CO Security Clearance

Position: Senior Platform Developer (Aurora, CO) with Security Clearance
Location: Aurora

Paladin Consulting is currently hiring a Senior Platform Developer to join our team working onsite at our client's office located in Aurora, CO. We work with companies that offer environments for our employees to contribute, learn, and advance their career. We treat you like you are part of the family.

Job Title:

Senior Platform Developer

Work Location:

Aurora, CO Duration: 11 month contract Education/Experience

Required:

Typically requires BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics and 5 years of related work experience

Job Description & Responsibilities :
* As a Senior Platform Developer, you will herald a transformative era in software engineering, one that underscores the integration of development and operations through a single, comprehensive platform.
* Platform engineers, with their comprehensive technical and problem-solving skills, are shaping the future of software development to efficiently deliver high-quality, secure software, by providing automated services that enable SW engineers to focus on developing mission capabilities.
* The role's core responsibility revolves around empowering development teams with a robust platform that streamlines processes, enhances collaboration, and accelerates release cycles, thereby driving efficiency and innovation.
* You will be on an agile team that is responsible for development and operational environments consisting of a mix of servers, workstations, storage, networks, and custom hardware. These environments provide the enterprise hybrid-cloud backbone for product development and testing for a large program producing a critical, strategic national asset. This will include a mixture of hands-on keyboard engineering work as well as documentation and baseline control.

* Note This position will be onsite in Aurora CO.

What You Will Do:

* Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in support of transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure to a modern platform infrastructure
* Optimize implementation for performance and scalability across on-premise VMware computing environments
* Leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management
* Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and Dev Ops teams to design and implement development and mission solutions
* Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management
* Provide operational support for the platform

Skills & Qualifications :
Qualifications You Must Have:
* Typically requires BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics and 5 years of related work experience
* Experience with containerization using technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker
* Experience with programming/scripting languages (E.g. Python, Java, Ruby, Bash, C, C#, Go)
* Current CompTIA Security  or ability to obtain
* Active and current TS/SCI / CI Poly security clearance is required day 1. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance. Qualifications We Prefer:
* Experience with Agile Development Methodologies (E.g. scrum, SAFe)
* Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab)
* Experience with automation frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible
* Experience with scanning tools (E.g. Nessus, Fortify, Anchore)
* Exp developing, testing & delivering applications w/in a Dev Sec Ops  framework
* Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience and expertise (Server, Storage, Network Hardware)
* Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration
* Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using infrastructure as code (IaC) For more information or to view other opportunities, visit us at  Paladin Consulting is an EEOC employer.