Sr. Platform Operations Engineer, DevOps | TS Cleared

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Trace3 is headquartered in Irvine, California. We employ more than 1,200 people all over the United States. Our major field office locations include Denver, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Lexington, Los Angeles, Louisville, Texas, San Francisco.

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** This position is on site in either Littleton, CO, Denver, CO, or King of Prussia, PA -- This role can be a direct hire/full time position, or a W2 hourly role depending on preference

The Sr. Platform Operations Engineer, Dev Ops is a senior technical role supporting Space Programs within a Rapid Deployment Team. This position is responsible for the deployment, integration, operation, and sustainment of mission-critical systems across classified environments.

This role operates at the intersection of Open Shift platform operations, Rundeck-based operational automation, and conventional system administration with security compliance responsibilities
. The position emphasizes hands-on execution across deployments, system stabilization, incident recovery, and infrastructure integration.

This individual contributor role serves as a primary technical escalation point during operational events, coordinating resolution efforts across multiple domains and mission stakeholders in a high-tempo environment requiring strong troubleshooting across compute, network, storage, and platform layers.

• Oversee deployment, configuration, lifecycle management, and sustainment of Open Shift environments within classified networks.
• Ensure platform reliability, availability, and integration with mission applications and infrastructure services.
• Design, maintain, and execute Rundeck runbooks to enable deployment workflows, system administration tasks, and incident response procedures.
• Ensure operational automation is consistent, repeatable, and auditable.
• Provide hands‑on operational expertise for Linux and Windows environments, including configuration management, patching, troubleshooting, and lifecycle upkeep.
• Act as a senior escalation point for outages, deployment failures, and platform instability.
• Conduct root‑cause analysis across infrastructure layers and restore mission capability under time‑sensitive conditions.
• Maintain adherence to security controls, compliance frameworks, configuration standards, and accreditation requirements across classified environments.
• Resolve complex issues spanning networking, storage, operating systems, and platform services across enterprise infrastructure.
• Coordinate resolution activities across infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking, system administration, and program stakeholders during deployments, incidents, and recovery efforts.
• Remove blockers, align execution paths, and provide hands‑on guidance and informal mentorship to engineers during active operations to improve team effectiveness in real time.

• Active Top Secret clearance with the ability to maintain clearance eligibility throughout employment; SCI preferred.
• Hands‑on experience supporting Open Shift platform operations, Linux and/or Windows administration, and operational automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Rundeck
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• Strong troubleshooting capability across distributed systems and infrastructure layers including compute, network, storage, and platform services.
• Experience supporting security compliance, system hardening, audit readiness, and mission‑critical operational environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills with the…