Cloud Platform Engineer

Noblis • Atlantic City, NJ

3d

About The Position

Noblis is seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to support the FAA’s System Wide Information Management (SWIM) program and NextGen transformation strategy. The role focuses on building, hardening, and operating containerized SFDPS components on Red Hat OpenShift or equivalent Red Hat-based platforms, and implementing the CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and logging required for FAA Efficiency Critical requirements and cloud migration.

The engineer will design and operate container orchestration, automated delivery pipelines, and reproducible cloud environments; implement observability; and collaborate with security and compliance teams to meet FedRAMP, FISMA, and FAA baseline requirements. The position also involves production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, Agile delivery, and mentoring junior engineers. Candidates must be U.S. citizens or Green Card permanent residents with at least three of the past five years of U.S. residency, and must be able to obtain and maintain FAA Suitability.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree and 9 years of relevant professional experience; alternatively, a high school degree and 15 years, an associate degree and 11 years, or a master's degree and 6 years of professional experience. Substitutions are subject to further customer review and approval.
• U.S. citizen or Green Card permanent resident with at least 3 of the last 5 years of U.S. residency.
• Ability to obtain and maintain FAA Suitability.
• Hands-on experience managing containerized applications and cloud platforms, with a software development background and robust Java experience building cloud-native, scalable services.
• Proficiency in a language suited to high-throughput systems, such as Java, Go, Python, or .NET backend development.
• Strong experience with Red Hat OpenShift or RHEL-based container environments.
• Experience with C and C++ for performance-critical or legacy components, including ability to read, maintain, and improve native system code.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Groovy for CI/CD pipelines, monitoring automation, and incident response.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Kubernetes primitives.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, or DataDog.
• Proven experience with at least one major message broker, such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS.
• Experience with data serialization formats such as JSON, XML, Avro, or Protobuf.
• Knowledge of messaging protocols such as AMQP, MQTT, JMS, or STOMP.
• Understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub-sub, and point-to-point queues.
• Ability to collaborate across cross-functional Agile teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience operating in a FedRAMP-authorized or government cloud environment.
• CKA/CKAD, RHCE, RHCA, or relevant AWS, Azure, or GCP Gov cloud certifications.
• Experience with service meshes such as Istio and Kubernetes Operators.
• Prior FAA program support experience or work on ATM/aviation systems.
• Experience with cloud-based messaging services such as AWS SNS/SQS, Azure Service Bus, or Google Pub/Sub.

Responsibilities

• Build, harden, and operate containerized SFDPS components on Red Hat OpenShift or equivalent Red Hat-based container platforms.
• Design and implement container orchestration patterns in OpenShift/Kubernetes, including deployments, Operators, and Helm charts.
• Build and maintain production-grade CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and promotion workflows.
• Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform and configuration management using Ansible for reproducible FAA cloud environments.
• Implement observability, including metrics, logging, tracing, and dashboards.
• Work with security and compliance teams to align deployments with FedRAMP, FISMA, and FAA baseline requirements.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analyses, and drive corrective actions to improve availability and maintainability.
• Contribute to code reviews, application performance tuning, and troubleshooting complex multi-language application stacks.
• Participate in Agile delivery, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to sprint planning and backlog grooming.

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave.
• Professional development.
• Tuition assistance.
• Work-life programs.
• Awards recognizing exceptional performance and superior demonstration of service standards.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior