Platform Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Platform Engineer with Security Clearance
This position is for a Platform Engineer for a technical development program supporting the Sponsor’s IdAM/ICAM programs located on a secure network. As a Platform Engineer on this program, you will design, develop, and implement reliable, robust, and resilient systems used by software development teams. Demonstratable, working experience with automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Git Hub Actions), Kubernetes, containers, or serverless is strongly preferred.

The Platform Engineer will work with a large team of developers, software engineers, cybersecurity engineers, database administrators, and system architects.
*** Applicants for this position are expected to have significant, hands-on systems engineering experience.
*** Primary Responsibilities

• This role delivers an innovative product, service, or a combination of products and services that address a customer’s specific requirements

• Support the development of enterprise software solutions within the customer’s cloud environments.

• This role provides execution guidance and practical engineering support to mission teams

Required Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

• BS degree and 6-10 years of relevant experience

• Must have experience with cloud providers such as AWS

• Experience in Platform engineering

• Excellent oral and written communications skills

• Working with the team’s security engineer to address and mitigate security findings stemming from system security scans

• Performing regular maintenance of cloud infrastructure resources, to include patching, configuration, upgrading as needed

• Experience interacting with cross functional project teams including Software Development System Engineering, Security Compliance, and Quality Assurance
Desired Qualifications

• Demonstratable working experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, and Packer

• Demonstratable working experience with containers (i.e., Docker/Podman) or their orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)

• Demonstratable working experience with serverless platforms (e.g., AWS Lambda)

• Experience with security accreditation process

• Experience working in Agile, SAFe, and Scrum environments