Cloud Platform Engineer IL6/cArmy

Koniag Government Services•Washington, DC

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer with an active Top Secret security clearance to support a U.S. Army customer on a large-scale contracting systems modernization and automation program in the DC Metro area. This is a contingent recruiting profile for a future new business opportunity. The opening, employing subsidiary, compensation, work location, and staffing are subject to final contract authorization. The engineer will build and sustain the platform within the Government-furnished cArmy/SIPR IL-6 boundary. The role coordinates Appian, enterprise services, identity, logging, storage, networking, capacity, recovery, and inherited controls under the approved shared-responsibility model. The position requires regular work at Government-approved secure facilities using authorized SIPRNet/IL-6 systems. Remote work is limited to duties that do not require classified access and must be specifically authorized. The role may support maintenance windows, security assessments, recovery exercises, and critical incident response outside normal duty hours. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related field; additional relevant experience may substitute for education.
Seven or more years of cloud or platform engineering experience, including work in classified or tightly controlled DoD environments.
Experience with cArmy or comparable DoD cloud services, SIPRNet operations, identity, networking, monitoring, backup/recovery, and shared-responsibility controls.
Experience supporting managed application platforms and coordinating provider-owned infrastructure changes.
U.S. citizenship and the active security clearance or eligibility required for assigned work by the start of performance, with ongoing eligibility thereafter.
Ability to communicate clearly with Government, technical, and business stakeholders and maintain accurate work records in approved systems.
Ability to protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information, when assigned, and comply with required access, training, and handling procedures.
Competence in cArmy and classified cloud/platform engineering, SIPRNet environment configuration and operations, capacity, monitoring, backup and recovery, shared-responsibility and inherited controls, and secure artifact transfer and IL-6 DevSecOps support.
Top Secret security clearance is specified in the position introduction.

Nice To Haves

Experience deploying or operating Appian in Army or DoD environments.
AWS, cloud security, Linux/Windows, networking, or platform engineering certification.
Experience with Splunk, GitLab, Nexus, SonarQube, eMASS, STIGs, and classified DevSecOps pipelines.

Responsibilities

Plan and implement IL-6 development, test, staging, and production environments with cArmy, Appian, security, and stakeholders.
Document platform architecture, service dependencies, data flows, interfaces, inherited controls, and customer responsibilities.
Configure boundary-specific identity, credentials, data sources, logging, security settings, feature availability, storage, and authorized endpoints.
Support approved inspection and transfer of versioned Appian packages, scripts, plug-ins, tests, SBOM information, and configuration artifacts into SIPRNet.
Integrate IL-6 repositories, pipeline services, monitoring, scanners, evidence sources, backup, and recovery capabilities.
Monitor availability, response time, throughput, queues, storage, platform health, interfaces, security events, and errors.
Develop and refresh capacity models using users, concurrency, transactions, data growth, log volume, recovery objectives, and fiscal year-end demand.
Coordinate provider-controlled scaling, maintenance, incidents, vulnerabilities, certificates, and lifecycle changes.
Execute platform readiness, failover, backup/restore, recovery, performance, and operational-acceptance testing.
Maintain IL-6 runbooks, configuration records, inventories, diagrams, evidence, and Tier 3 escalation procedures.
Protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information when assigned, and comply with required access, training, and handling procedures.
Communicate clearly with Government, technical, and business stakeholders and maintain accurate work records in approved systems.