Senior Platform Engineer

ASRC Federal has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Platform Engineer. This position offers a sign-on bonus.
As a Platform Engineer, you will play a crucial role in automating and optimizing our Dev Ops toolchain, ensuring seamless collaboration between development and operations teams. Your expertise in automating processes and integrating tools will directly impact the efficiency and quality of our software delivery. This will include optimizing existing CI/CD pipelines to work in Air Gap cloud settings and support automation of customer development desktops for the best customer experience possible.
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Responsibilities:

Infrastructure Management
Deploy Azure resources using Azure Pipelines such as Azure Virtual Machines, Key Vaults, and other core Azure resources
Leverage a Git Ops model for management of Azure Infrastructure code baseline
Leverage industry standards such as Packer for building golden images as code for a medium sized infrastructure environment
Ensure all Azure components meet industry standard configurations such as customer managed keys
Experience using Azure Infrastructure as Code such as Bicep or Terraform

Experience with Active Directory and Entra  leverage identity services and integration such as with keycloak or other applications

Security and Compliance
Maintain enterprise environment using DoD (U.S. Department of Defense) standard vulnerability tools such as Nessus Security Center.
Audit all Virtual Machines in the environment are reporting logging information to a centralized enterprise Log Analytics workspace.
Perform patching and update management of the Virtual Machine footprint using WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) or other enterprise scale update management system.
Participate in change management review boards to support boundary changes in the overall enterprise.

Customer Onboarding
Review customer onboarding information for workloads and update parameter templates to their matching hardware family (Compute Optimized vs. Memory Optimized)
Leverage existing CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) pipeline to deploy Azure infrastructure into an existing software enterprise
Ensure customer requirements are documented inside of a content management system such as Confluence.
Collaborate with local onsite team members to ensure all required configurations have been completed and that services are ready to be turned over to software customer base.
Provide basic tier 1 support in assisting customers installing software onto baseline desktops using an automation first mentality (DSC or Packer).

Experience with Kubernetes
Other duties as assigned

Key automation that will be desired are:

Bicep or Terraform
Skopeo/Crane/Podman for Container Movement

Requirements:

Must be a US citizen and currently have a Department of Defense Top Secret/SCI Clearance.
Security+ Certification
Experience using HCL languages such as Packer and Terraform.
Experience using Microsoft Azure Bicep.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or related Field
5-8 years demonstrated performance in related technology.

Experience with Kubernetes