Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Platform Engineer operates and secures cloud infrastructure for federal mission applications, data services, and development environments across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The role automates provisioning and deployments, manages identity and access, monitors platform health, troubleshoots incidents, and maintains security, backup, and recovery procedures. It also coordinates with engineering, cybersecurity, and mission teams to deliver reliable cloud services.

Qualifications

• Active Secret security clearance.
• Hands-on experience supporting AWS and Azure cloud environments, including compute, storage, networking, and identity services.
• Working knowledge of Linux or Windows system administration.
• Scripting experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash, or a comparable language.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code and reusable infrastructure definitions.
• Experience with source control and automated deployment workflows.
• Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, routing, network access controls, and cloud connectivity.
• Ability to analyze logs and monitoring data, troubleshoot issues, and communicate clearly with distributed teams.
• Experience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure automation tools is desired.
• Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, or managed container services is desired.
• Experience with federal mission environments, DevSecOps, backup and recovery testing, capacity planning, or cloud cost optimization is desired.

Responsibilities

• Configure, operate, and maintain cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure.
• Provision compute, storage, virtual networking, DNS, and cloud services.
• Develop and maintain reusable infrastructure as code and automation scripts.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, deployment testing, release validation, and rollback procedures.
• Manage access permissions, service identities, secrets, and platform security controls.
• Maintain monitoring, logging, dashboards, and alerts for platform health and performance.
• Troubleshoot platform incidents and implement corrective actions.
• Perform updates, patching, configuration reviews, and vulnerability remediation coordination.
• Maintain and validate backup, recovery, and failover procedures.
• Coordinate with engineering, cybersecurity, and mission stakeholders and maintain technical documentation.

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