Platform Engineer

Decision Technologies, Inc.•Virginia Beach, VA

7d•$115,000 - $140,000•Onsite

About The Position

Decision Technologies seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to join our team in Virginia Beach, VA. This role is responsible for designing, deploying, and sustaining resilient cloud and edge infrastructure. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in Kubernetes, Linux systems engineering, and cloud-native infrastructure, with hands-on experience building secure, highly available environments that can operate in disconnected, degraded, intermittent, and low-bandwidth (DIL) conditions. An active security clearance is required.

Requirements

Active Security Clearance
Deep expertise in Kubernetes
Linux systems engineering expertise
Cloud-native infrastructure expertise
Hands-on experience building secure, highly available environments that operate in disconnected, degraded, intermittent, and low-bandwidth (DIL) conditions
Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Experience with Terraform or equivalent tooling

Responsibilities

Collaborate closely with software, networking, cybersecurity, and systems engineering teams to deliver scalable, mission-focused platform solutions.
Design and implement scalable, multi-tier cloud-native architectures.
Build highly available, fault-tolerant, multi-region platform solutions.
Deploy, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters using k0s, k3s, or upstream Kubernetes.
Optimize cluster resource utilization through resource requests, limits, and quotas.
Configure networking, ingress controllers, and service routing.
Administer and harden Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments.
Configure routing, DNS, and host-based firewalling.
Develop and maintain declarative infrastructure-as-code (IaC) workflows using Terraform or equivalent tooling.
Manage Platform Networking & Security.
Implement Observability & Monitoring.
Support Disconnected / DIL Operations.