Platform Engineer (Defense)
About The Position
As a Platform Engineer on ASI’s defense engineering team, you will design, build, and operate Kubernetes clusters on bare metal from the ground up. You will own the platform end to end, including hardware bring-up, cluster lifecycle, day-2 operations, security hardening, and accreditation support. You will work closely with development and product teams to deliver mission software. The role involves supporting platforms in restricted, disconnected, or classified environments and collaborating with operations, development, network, and security teams, as well as partners and customers. The position requires onsite work in Virginia 50% of the time and on-call support during designated surge events. Employment offers are contingent on the ability to timely obtain all required authorizations for the contemplated job duties.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- At least 5 years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, systems administration, infrastructure, or a related field.
- DoD 8140 Cyber Workforce certification for privileged users, such as Security+ CE.
- Willingness to work onsite in Virginia 50% of the time.
- Ability to timely obtain all required authorizations for contemplated job duties.
Responsibilities
- Bring up bare-metal hardware, including out-of-band management and automated operating-system provisioning.
- Build and operate production Kubernetes clusters on bare metal, managing cluster lifecycle, upgrades, operators, networking, storage, and ingress.
- Automate infrastructure with Ansible and Terraform/OpenTofu.
- Build CI/CD pipelines that deliver software into disconnected environments.
- Operate production platforms through monitoring, alerting, incident response, capacity planning, and runbooks.
- Work with network and security teams to connect external data sources, including firewall rules, cross-domain transfers, and data-feed connectivity.
- Harden and support accreditation of systems to NIST and RMF standards in restricted, disconnected, or classified environments.
- Explain technical and mission concepts clearly to partners and customers.
- Collaborate with operations and development teams in different locations.
- Provide on-call support during designated surge events.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
