Senior Platform Engineer

Job Title:

Senior Platform Engineer Job Category:
Information Technology Time Type:
Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI Employee Type:
Regular Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 10%
Type of Travel:
Local Anticipated Posting End: 3/1/2027

The Opportunity:

CACI is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale our innovative applications and technologies as part of our Dev Sec Ops  team. This role will be responsible for enabling a multidisciplinary engineering team to meet the requirements of a mission critical cloud-based force protection system with a Digital Twin environment. The chosen engineer will work closely with RF hardware engineers, system designers, and other stakeholders to deliver a high-performance, reliable RF system and Digital Twin.

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated technical leader who thrives in agile environments and adapts quickly to emerging technologies and requirements.

Responsibilities:

Design, implement, and support services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or similar technology.

Build, optimize, and maintain production-grade CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab or Jenkins).Build and maintain automation using scripts and other tools.

Configure and tune groups , application gateways, and other protective cloud controls.

Manage compute, storage, networking, and database services across cloud environments while ensuring adherence to security and compliance frameworks.

Collaborate closely with other engineers and subject matter experts to integrate testing into pipelines.

Establish and enforce security best practices for system implementations and data privacy.

Provisioning Red Hat Open Shift/Kubernetes environments across multiple security domains in Cloud, data center, and edge environments.

Conduct trade studies to select appropriate open-source, commercial or existing government solutions/technologies to balance security, supportability, performance, cost, user experience, and time to operations.

Collaborate with other teams to understand integration requirements and scale existing platforms to meet them.

Work with Security to ensure ongoing compliance and develop secure solutions.

Qualifications:

Required:

U.S. Citizenship required

Must have an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligabilityBS/BA + 7 years or equivalency7+ years of experience in cloud/infrastructure engineering

Extensive hands-on engineering experience in one or more of Open Shift, AWS, GCP or Rancher Expert Terraform skills or similar; proven experience managing infrastructure with infrastructure as code Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters (Open Shift/Rancher) supporting processing workloads

Experience with containers (Docker, Podman) and CI/CD (Gitlab or Jenkins pipelines)
Scripting/programming abilities

Experience with Git Ops (ArgoCD)
Desired:

Linux/Red Hat knowledge

Experience with Digital Twin systems

Elastic Stack (Elastic, Logstash, Kibana) or similar

Experience with continuous monitoring and automated security tools

Strong communication skills for presenting to senior leadership-What You Can Expect: A culture of integrity.

At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.

An environment of trust.

CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality.

A focus on continuous growth.

Together, we will advance our nation's most…