Principal Platform Engineer

Clarity Innovations•Columbia, VA

About The Position

Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world. Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact. We are committed to delivering cutting-edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.

Requirements

Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Significant experience with Gitlab CI/CD
Experience in deploying & maintaining containerized and serverless workloads
Experience with a variety of databases & datastores (Relational, Columnar and NoSQL)
Proficient in provisioning and maintaining linux-based infrastructure & container based architectures (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes)

Nice To Haves

Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow, EMR, etc.
Experience with configuration management tooling (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
Experience with deployment tooling (Helm, ArgoCD, etc.)
Experience with real time monitoring and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

Building, maintaining and supporting the infrastructure which drives the product platform.
Deploying an API gateway for a new serverless API.
Reviewing, designing and implementing a scalable data retention policy.
Advancing the organizational strategy in deployment/release automation, infrastructure stability, and disaster recovery planning.
Development and maintenance of the overall health and status of the core platform & corresponding data sources, including the protection of infrastructure against external cybersecurity threats.
Improvements to developer experience, including CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, etc.
Automation of manual processes.
Collaborating with development teams to provide support to our Operations team and internal customers.
Participating in incident response and troubleshooting efforts, identifying and resolving infrastructure-related issues quickly.
Working closely with development teams to ensure infrastructure supports the software development life cycle, including continuous integration and deployment.
Evaluating new technologies and common services and making recommendations for their use.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable, secure, and reliable solutions.
Writing high quality and maintainable codebases to deploy and maintain infrastructure.
Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and fixes.
Monitoring processes during their entire lifecycle to update or define new processes for improving reliability and minimizing infrastructure costs.
Assisting in the development and implementation of engineering standards and best practices for other teams.
Participating in cross team Scrum events to improve the overall quality of processes for our product teams.
Assisting in ensuring compliance with security and regulatory requirements.
Developing and maintaining documentation & diagrams related to infrastructure configurations, processes & architectures.