Platform/Infrastructure Engineer

Nightwing•Sterling, VA

4d•$122,000 - $253,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Platform/Infrastructure Engineer (PIE) designs, builds, and maintains the platforms that Mission Partner development teams use to deploy, monitor, and manage applications. The PIE creates a stable, scalable, and efficient integrated development platform that abstracts the complexity of infrastructure, security, and core/microservices to allow tenant developers to deliver software more effectively. The PIE demonstrates experience with DevOps practices delivering Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and Terraform), GitLab or Hashicorp, CI/CD (Jenkins), Helm, Docker, Kubernetes and CSPs (AWS, Google) and platforms (Nutanix). The PIE builds and scales internal developer products to build templates with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) focused on efficiency, reliability, and security. The PIE blends technical skills in container orchestration, version control, cloud platforms, automation tools, containerization, and scripting utilizing skills and tools such as Python, GitHub, Jenkins, Cloud formation, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and other future architecture requirements.

Requirements

Strong understanding of Linux and/or Windows Server operating systems.
Knowledge of network protocols, routing, and firewall configurations.
Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation.
Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including virtual machines, containers, and networking services.
Familiarity with virtualization technologies like VMware or Hyper-V.
Knowledge of tools like Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
Ability to diagnose and resolve infrastructure issues.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with developers and other teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience with integrating security into the development pipeline (DevSecOps).
Understanding and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
Familiarity with monitoring tools and logging systems.
Basic knowledge of database management systems (e.g., SQL, NoSQL).
Knowledge of security best practices and tools for protecting infrastructure.
Experience with programming languages (e.g., Python, Java) for automation or custom tools.
Cloud Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.
Linux Certifications: Linux Professional Institute (LPI), Certified Linux System Administrator (CLSA).
Infrastructure-as-Code Certifications: Terraform Certified Professional.
Other Relevant Certifications: CompTIA Network+, Cisco CCNA.

Responsibilities

Manages the IaaS Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for development, delivery and maintenance of systems/services currently deployed, in development, as well as future release planning
Define and implement strategies for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning
Define, develop, and implement scaling methods, tools for logging, monitoring, alerting
Develop automation playbook/run rules for auto remediation
Develop roadmap activities that support the development of an enhanced system, comprehensive data collection, mitigation strategies to move towards, and development of metrics to drive IT improvements.
Deliver Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian) administration experience, including package management, security hardening, kickstart, and virtualization
Deliver Windows server, office (messaging, collaboration, productivity), and update/software management (WSUS, WSSC), AD/DNS, account, and IdAM/Security management
Work with the OM and SRE to implement customer best practices for software discrepancy and reporting, issue resolution and operations support to include Tier 2/3 escalation.