Principal Platform Engineer

ASRC Federal•Moorestown, NJ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

ASRC Federal is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer in Moorestown, New Jersey, to evolve secure, automated platforms that power an upstream Kubernetes-based virtual development environment. The environment enables teams to deliver software using industry best practices and must deploy across air-gapped on-premises systems, secure private networks, commercial cloud, and regulated cloud environments using portable, repeatable, self-hosted automation rather than SaaS. The role engineers and sustains upstream Kubernetes environments and develops platform capabilities, automation, packaging, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and repeatable PaaS services. The engineer works with development and infrastructure teams, evaluates cloud-native tools, and provides guidance and knowledge transfer across the organization. Applicants must have a bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field or equivalent related work experience, at least eight years of relevant professional experience, and the ability to obtain and maintain a government secret clearance. U.S. citizenship is required.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field, or equivalent related work experience.
Ability to obtain and maintain a government secret clearance; U.S. citizenship is required.
Ability to obtain and maintain required security clearance or other authorizations within the timeframe required by applicable contracts.
At least 8 years of professional experience in senior DevOps, platform development, senior software engineering, or senior systems administration in on-premises, air-gapped, and cloud-based environments.
Understanding of core web technologies, including HTTPS, TLS/SSL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, and common delivery components.
Experience with automation or development in C++, Rust, or an equivalent language.

Responsibilities

Engineer and sustain upstream (vanilla) Kubernetes environments that enable reliable, repeatable software delivery environments.
Use Python scripting and Helm-based Kubernetes packaging to automate platform workflows and deployments.
Engineer secure-by-default Kubernetes platform capabilities, embedding security controls into automation, delivery workflows, and operational practices.
Translate platform capabilities into repeatable PaaS services that accelerate internal delivery and enable customer-targeted outcomes.
Operate Docker or Podman container runtimes and containerization to support CI/CD execution and cloud-native tooling deployments.
Develop secure end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and provide organization-wide CI/CD tooling expertise, guidance, and support.
Implement Kubernetes observability for logs, metrics, and traces, embedding it into GitOps-driven automation to validate deployments, detect regressions, and accelerate incident response.
Partner with development and infrastructure teams to automate deployments and release validation, applying best practices in delivery, testing, security, performance, and disaster recovery.
Evaluate and adopt cloud-native open-source or commercial off-the-shelf tools to meet platform needs, enable teams through knowledge transfer, and integrate new capabilities into standard workflows.