Cloud Platform Engineer - Clearance Required Falls Church, VA Falls Church, VA

Falls Church, VA

Phoenix Ops Group is seeking qualified candidates for mission-oriented cloud, data, and AI-enabling technology work. Multiple levels may be considered based on experience, including mid-level and senior candidates. We are seeking a hands‑on Cloud Platform Engineer to support cloud platform engineering, Dev Sec Ops  practices, CI/CD implementation, deployment, configuration, testing, and operational support.

This role is focused on helping deploy, configure, test, secure, and operationalize integrated cloud‑based capabilities in secure or mission‑oriented environments that support advanced analytics, automation, and AI‑enabled mission capabilities. Candidates should be comfortable working across cloud platforms, automation, Dev Sec Ops  pipelines, containerized environments, infrastructure‑as‑code, application integration, and operational readiness activities.

Experience with AWS and Databricks environments is highly desired.

• Support cloud platform engineering, deployment, configuration, and testing activities.
• Build, maintain, or support CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Git Lab CI/CD, Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, or comparable platforms.
• Support Dev Ops and Dev Sec Ops  practices across development, test, and operational environments.
• Assist with deployment automation, environment configuration, and release support.
• Support containerized and distributed environments using tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, or similar technologies.
• Implement or maintain infrastructure‑as‑code, automation, and configuration management using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or comparable platforms.
• Install, configure, harden, and troubleshoot Linux‑based and cloud‑based infrastructure services.
• Work with data engineers, application teams, security teams, and integration teams to move capabilities into operational use.
• Troubleshoot cloud platform, deployment, pipeline, configuration, networking, and integration issues.
• Support monitoring, logging, observability, reliability, scalability, and performance optimization activities.
• Support testing and validation of integrated cloud, data, and application capabilities.
• Help ensure solutions are implemented in a secure, repeatable, resilient, and mission‑ready manner.
• Support secure configuration, patching, vulnerability management, and operational sustainment activities.
• Document deployment processes, environment dependencies, architecture considerations, configuration steps, and operational procedures.
• Support evaluation of software dependencies, licensing considerations, and supply chain security risks where applicable.

• Hands‑on experience with cloud platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, Dev Ops, Dev Sec Ops , or platform operations.
• Experience supporting CI/CD pipeline implementation, deployment automation, or release support using Git Lab CI/CD or similar tools.
• Experience with cloud environment configuration, testing, troubleshooting, or operational support.
• Experience administering, configuring, or troubleshooting Linux‑based systems.
• Familiarity with secure software delivery practices and integrated development environments.
• Familiarity with containerization, orchestration, automation, or infrastructure‑as‑code concepts.
• Ability to work across platform, application, data, security, and mission teams.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Ability to support secure or mission‑oriented environments.

• Experience with AWS cloud services and deployment patterns.
• Familiarity with Databricks or comparable cloud data platform environments.
• Experience with Git Lab, Git Lab CI/CD, or comparable source control and Dev Sec Ops  platforms.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, or similar container and orchestration technologies.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or similar infrastructure‑as‑code and configuration management tools.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and operational troubleshooting tools.
• Experience supporting networking, identity, security, firewalls, virtualization, or distributed system environments.
• Experience with system hardening,…