Senior Platform Engineer Job Sterling area,Alaska USA,IT/Tech

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 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

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 critical…