Platform Engineer

Job summary

Build, deploy, and operate the platform behind Sol*** Cloud, with a focus on self-managed deployments in customer-controlled, sovereign, and US Government cloud environments. The role combines Kubernetes platform engineering, Terraform and Helm automation, CI/CD, and production operations with regulated-environment security and FedRAMP compliance. It also involves customer-facing deployment work and contributions to Java/Spring Boot microservices.

Benefits

Qualifications

• US citizenship and eligibility for a security clearance are required.
• At least five years of platform, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or production engineering experience, including hands-on ownership of production systems.
• Practical Kubernetes expertise across managed and self-hosted distributions.
• Proficiency with Terraform and Helm.
• Strong Linux fundamentals and cloud networking knowledge, including routing, load balancers, VPN, private connectivity, DNS, and TLS/PKI.
• Experience with at least two of AWS, Azure, and GCP, preferably including government or sovereign cloud variants.
• Working knowledge of FedRAMP, NIST SP 800-53, FIPS 140-2/140-3, and CIS Benchmarks or DISA STIGs.
• Experience managing secrets, credentials, and certificates with HashiCorp Vault or similar tools.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing for infrastructure and services.
• Ability to script and code in Go, Python, or Java and contribute to Java/Spring Boot services.
• Experience operating relational and search databases in production, such as MySQL and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
• Ability to explain technical decisions clearly to customers and government stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in a related engineering or computer science field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, operate, and upgrade self-managed cloud environments in customer-controlled, sovereign, and US Government cloud accounts, including air-gapped and egress-restricted deployments.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code, Helm charts, and automation for Kubernetes clusters and platform services.
• Manage operational health, including monitoring, capacity, patching, cluster upgrades, database operations, backup, and recovery.
• Participate in production support and incident response; perform root-cause analysis and improve fixes, runbooks, and automation.
• Implement security baselines, including hardened images, FIPS-validated cryptography, restricted RBAC, network segmentation, private connectivity, and secrets management.
• Implement technical controls, produce compliance evidence, support audits, and maintain documentation for FedRAMP and related requirements.
• Work with customer platform and security teams on deployments and upgrades, translating constraints into supportable configurations.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and automated tests for infrastructure and platform code.
• Contribute to Java/Spring Boot platform microservices.
• Document designs, participate in reviews and demos, and mentor others on self-managed and government deployment patterns.

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