Senior Platform Engineer

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Omni Federal, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Washington, DC, is a highly specialized software solutions provider with a robust presence in key locations across the United States, including Boston, MA, Colorado Springs, CO, San Antonio, TX, and St. Louis, MO. Born out of the Department of Defense’s software factory ecosystem, Omni has rapidly distinguished itself by delivering both mission‑critical and enterprise solutions that enhance the technological capabilities of the federal government.

With a focus on areas such as Command and Control, Cybersecurity, Space, Geospatial, and Modeling & Simulation, Omni leverages cutting‑edge commercial technology tailored to government objectives, improving mission performance and delivering transformative outcomes for the Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and their end‑users. The company's innovative approach is backed by its Omni Labs and SBIR Innovation centers, where they develop advanced platforms and tools indata mesh, secure connectivity, and intelligent automation.

• Environment of Autonomy

• Innovative Commercial Approach

• People over process

We are seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to support the Air Force to help in developing and operating modernized applications that are used daily by the warfighter. This is an exciting new initiative where the Air Force is mirroring Silicon Valley processes and capabilities to quickly deploy new capabilities. Candidates must be passionate, energized, and excited to work on modern architectures and solve challenging problems for our clients.

• Own and evolve the foundational AWS Gov Cloud infrastructure (networking, IAM/account structure, VPC design, storage) underpinning the Data Operations platform, ensuring it scales securely and reliably as new data sources and workloads are onboarded.

• Design, provision, and operate the platform's core managed data infrastructure — Amazon MSK (Kafka), AWS EMR (Spark), Aurora, S3, and Glue — sizing, scaling, and tuning these services to meet performance and cost requirements.

• Own the Kubernetes platform itself (cluster architecture, node groups/autoscaling, upgrades, cluster networking, and cluster‑level security posture) that the Data Engineering and Dev Sec Ops  teams build and deploy on top of.

• Build and maintain the platform's Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) modules and remote state management practices, providing a shared, reusable foundation other engineers provision against.

• Establish and maintain platform reliability practices — monitoring, alerting, incident response/on‑call rotation, capacity planning, and disaster recovery/backup procedures — for the underlying infrastructure.

• Own cost visibility and optimization across the platform's AWS Gov Cloud footprint, right‑sizing infrastructure and identifying savings opportunities.

• Provide self‑service, “golden path” tooling and documentation that allow Data Engineers and Dev Sec Ops  Engineers to provision and operate against the platform safely and consistently.

• Own assigned infrastructure tasking independently — translate well‑articulated requirements into working infrastructure — with oversight and guidance available from leadership as needed, and provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers.

• 8+ years of professional infrastructure/platform engineering experience, including hands‑on ownership of cloud infrastructure in production.

• Strong experience with AWS infrastructure (networking, IAM, VPC design) and operating managed data services such as MSK…