Senior Platform Engineer CACI Platform & Infrastructure –10d ago

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

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.

• 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.

Required:

• U.S. Citizenship required
• Must have an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligability
• BS/BA + 7 years or equivalency
• 7+ 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

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 critical…