DevOps Platform Engineer, Senior
About The Position
As a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer at Booz Allen, you will develop, manage, and secure container platforms tailored to client needs and cloud capabilities. You will develop container management software and support critical cloud platforms, using current container technologies to enable seamless orchestration. You will contribute technical expertise to mission-focused work, inform platform strategy and design, help ensure standards are met throughout containerization, and recommend resources for secure container adoption. The role involves working with application development teams across the software development lifecycle to solve complex problems collaboratively. Applicants must have a Secret clearance and a bachelor’s degree. The role requires substantial experience in DevOps or DevSecOps maturity, CI/CD troubleshooting, technical leadership, platform modernization, cloud-native solutions, container security, and secure software supply-chain practices. A master’s degree, Top Secret clearance, relevant mission-program experience, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, Azure, and scripting skills are listed as preferred qualifications. The projected annualized salary range is $77,600 to $176,000. Booz Allen describes benefits that include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, dependent care, and recognition awards. The work model is not specified for this position; the posting explains that remote, hybrid, or onsite arrangements, when applicable, have different expectations.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience developing tools and processes to drive DevOps or DevSecOps maturity through automation of builds, regression testing, monitoring, and release promotion across environments.
- 10+ years of experience troubleshooting, triaging, and resolving CI/CD pipeline failures or slowness.
- Experience serving as a technical lead, principal engineer, lead systems engineer, solution architect, chief engineer support lead, or technical authority for a complex platform, product, or mission system.
- Experience leading container-platform modernization, platform-as-a-service implementation, cloud-native transformation, enterprise infrastructure modernization, or tactical-edge platform engineering.
- Experience with GitOps, policy-as-code, automated compliance validation, container-image scanning, software bills of materials, artifact provenance, and secure software supply-chain implementation.
- Experience developing enterprise cloud-native solutions.
- Experience developing, managing, and securing containers.
- Experience working with application development teams across the software development lifecycle and collaboratively creating solutions to complex problems.
- Secret clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting Department of the Navy, Department of War, joint, maritime, afloat, expeditionary, tactical-network, command-and-control, or mission-system programs.
- Experience with platform engineering in disconnected, intermittent, limited-bandwidth, edge-computing, afloat, expeditionary, or contested-network environments.
- Experience developing enterprise cloud-native solutions involving Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, or Azure.
- Experience creating and improving continuous automation across multiple technical stacks.
- Experience creating and improving continuous deployment tools built on Kubernetes.
- Experience triaging and resolving issues related to open-source and commercial tools in public cloud environments.
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python or Linux Shell Script.
- Top Secret clearance.
- Master’s degree.
Responsibilities
- Develop, manage, and secure container platforms and container management software.
- Support the development of critical cloud platforms and improve clients’ environments using current container software for orchestration.
- Inform platform strategy and design, and ensure standards are met throughout the containerization process.
- Recommend resources to help clients manage and securely adopt containers.
- Develop tools and processes that improve DevOps or DevSecOps maturity by automating builds, regression testing, monitoring, and releases across environments.
- Troubleshoot, triage, and resolve CI/CD pipeline failures or slowness.
- Lead or support container-platform modernization, platform-as-a-service implementation, cloud-native transformation, enterprise infrastructure modernization, or tactical-edge platform engineering.
- Implement or support GitOps, policy-as-code, automated compliance validation, container-image scanning, software bills of materials, artifact provenance, and secure software supply-chain practices.
- Work with application development teams across the software development lifecycle and collaboratively create solutions to complex problems.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave.
- Professional development.
- Tuition assistance.
- Work-life programs.
- Dependent care.
- Recognition awards program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
