Platform Engineer (Experienced or Senior)
About The Position
Boeing Defense, Space & Security is seeking a Platform Engineer (Experienced or Senior) to join their team in Berkeley, MO. This role is focused on platform engineering, build automation, legacy systems support, and cloud modernization for mission-critical engineering and software development environments. The engineer will be responsible for maintaining and modernizing internal engineering tools, build systems, and automation workflows within a secure, cloud-based infrastructure. This position involves close collaboration with software developers, mission systems engineers, and other technical stakeholders to enhance developer productivity, streamline release processes, and ensure reliable software delivery. The ideal candidate is a skilled technical problem solver with expertise in software development, infrastructure automation, and cloud engineering, capable of supporting legacy environments while driving improvements in tools, pipelines, and deployment infrastructure.
Requirements
- Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship as a condition of employment
- Bachelor's Degree
- 3+ years of experience with programming in C, C++ or C#
- Experience with scripting, particularly in shell scripting in sh and csh variants, Bash, Python, and PERL
- 1+ years of experience with AWS Services, E.g. VPC, IAM, EC2, Auto-scaling, ELB, ECR, S3, DynamoDB, Postgres (RDS), Lambda, SQS, SNS, RDS, VPC, Route 53, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, AWS Config, Cloudtrail, AWS Developer Tools etc.
- Experience with Terraform,, Jenkins, Git, and Ansible, Cloud formation, etc.
- Experience with build and test tools such as (or similar to) BoostBuild, BoostTest, CMake, and Make
Nice To Haves
- 9 or more years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Ability to troubleshoot and support legacy engineering tools, build scripts, and automation workflows
- Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker or Podman
- Working knowledge of secure system administration practices and support for protected or regulated environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work across technical teams
- Experience supporting defense, aerospace, or highly regulated government systems
- Experience working in mission systems, embedded software, simulation, or flight software environments
- Experience modernizing, refactoring, or containerizing legacy applications, build environments, or engineering tools
- Experience with AWS GovCloud, JWCC, or other government cloud environments
- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar automation platforms
- Experience improving developer productivity through tooling, automation, and standardized environments
- Experience working in Agile development environments
- Experience with configuration management and collaboration tools such as Git, JIRA, Collaborator, Beyond Compare, or VersionOne
- Experience leading technical tasks, platform initiatives, or mentoring junior engineers
Responsibilities
- Lead platform engineering efforts in support of mission-critical software development and delivery environments
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and refactor legacy internal engineering tools, build scripts, and automation utilities
- Design and develop custom software tools and automation solutions to support engineering workflows and program needs
- Support and improve secure, cloud-based infrastructure environments used by the program
- Architect, provision, and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code practices
- Modernize legacy build and release processes into secure, repeatable CI/CD workflows
- Containerize legacy applications, build tools, and dependencies to improve reproducibility and consistency
- Work closely with software developers to improve local development environments and remove build bottlenecks
- Collaborate with mission systems engineers and other technical stakeholders to support platform stability and engineering efficiency
- Apply analytical problem-solving skills to resolve infrastructure, tooling, and build-related issues
- Document engineering practices and platform processes to support replication, scaling, and continuous improvement
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior engineers as needed
Benefits
- health insurance
- flexible spending accounts
- health savings accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life and disability insurance programs
- paid and unpaid time away from work
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
