Platform Engineer, Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton•McLean, VA

6h•Remote

About The Position

As a DevOps engineer, you’re eager to build, manage, and secure a container platform that meets your client’s needs and takes advantage of cloud capabilities. We need you to develop container management software to solve some of our clients’ toughest challenges. This role not only leads the architecture, design, and implementation of secure and scalable cloud and edge computing platforms, but also plays a hands-on part in development, delivery, and troubleshooting. You will guide team members on best practices for deploying in a repeatable and secure manner but also ensure underlying reliability of a platform as it undergoes rapid development and deployments. You’ll drive productization efforts, directly improve platform reliability through active involvement, and oversee DevSecOps automation across multiple classification domains—emphasizing technical execution and problem-solving as much as architectural leadership. You’ll recommend resources that will help your client manage and securely adopt containers. Additionally, you’ll continue to strengthen your DevOps skills while supporting the development of critical cloud platforms. Work with us to use cloud platform technology for good.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevSecOps, or platform architecture
Experience with Kubernetes, Rancher, Docker, and GitHub CI/CD
Experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef
Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and secure cloud environments
Ability to lead engineering teams within Agile frameworks
Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering
Security+ Certification

Nice To Haves

Experience with cloud-to-edge or tactical edge systems
Experience with agentic-assisted software development
Knowledge of SD-WAN, Observability, and Harvester based systems
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Certification
AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification

Responsibilities

Architect cloud-to-edge pipelines and distributed edge platforms.
Design scalable architectures for enterprise and tactical edge systems.
Establish baseline configurations from hardware to automated deployments.
Deploy and maintain Kubernetes and Rancher environments.
Design, execute, and automate RGS Harvester configuration baselines, including initial configurations, network bootstrapping, image seeding, and application initialization.
Enhance observability and reliability using Grafana, Prometheus, and AWS native services.
Lead the development and optimization of DevSecOps pipelines.
Architect and deploy pipelines in hybrid environments.
Support ATO efforts for platforms and software.
Develop automation using Terraform, Python, Helm, and related tools.
Implement automated patching and compliance workflows using AWS Systems Manager.
Onboard and support application teams adopting cloud platforms.
Troubleshoot distributed systems and lead incident response activities.
Guide teams through PI planning and Agile delivery cycles.
Lead technical teams on multi-million-dollar federal modernization efforts.