Senior Software Engineer – Platform Security Clearance

Sr. Software Engineer - Platform Join us in building the next generation of AI infrastructure that will power innovation across the customer organization. We're seeking a senior software engineer to support our Platform team, which owns the AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and security posture that every AI capability in the organization runs on.

• Lead the design, deployment, and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure used by the organization's AI capabilities (AWS, Kubernetes).
• Translate high-level stakeholder goals into engineering outcomes and platform solutions.
• Work within ambiguous problem spaces and define structured solutions the team can execute against.
• Mentor engineers and grow development best practices, engineering standards, and technical governance for the team.
• Establish and enforce security best practices for infrastructure systems and data, including certificate and identity management.
  
  Required Skills:
• Experience with AWS services such as EKS, Terraform, IAM, and Route 53.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Helm/Kustomize.
• Experience with Docker/containerization.
• Experience with Argo CD and/or other CI/CD frameworks.
• Experience configuring and using observability tooling such as the Elastic Stack (Kibana) and Grafana/Prometheus.
• Experience with certificate management and cloud-native security practices.
• Experience supporting cloud-native architecture and maintaining production software and infrastructure.
• Ability to take high-level mission goals and transform them into engineering outcomes.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Ability to balance hands-on engineering with leadership and coordination responsibilities.
• Nice to Have:
• Experience developing technical policies and governance frameworks.
• Experience with AI inference serving technologies (vLLM, LiteLLM, etc.).
• Previous experience with agentic frameworks.
• Knowledge of vector databases and embedding systems.
• Familiarity with LLMs and AI hosting concepts.
• Experience
  
  Required:
  
  12 years with Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or 16 years without degree
• Location:
  
  Columbia, MD
• Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph required
• Salary Range: $204,000 - $247,000
• Questions about this role or want to learn more about Neural Solutions?