Platform Engineer
Core
Deploy, manage, and evolve a multi-prem platform architecture across bare-metal, commercial cloud, and air-gapped environments to bridge SaaS and customer-hosted releases.
Role type
Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure & Kubernetes)
Builds
Multi-prem platform architecture, shrink-wrapped customer-hosted releases, and secure container build pipelines
Domain
Cybersecurity / AI Defense / Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Kubernetes orchestration, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD), Secure CI/CD pipelines, Linux systems administration, Networking (DNS, VPC, Firewalls), Observability stacks, Compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST)
Preferred skills
Regulated cloud deployment (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government), Classified/air-gapped environment experience, Supply chain security (SLSA, SBOM), Distributed systems architecture (Temporal, Kafka)
Technologies
Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenSearch, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government
Responsibilities
Lead deployment and lifecycle management of multi-prem platform across diverse environments; Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code to automate consistent deployments; Maintain and optimize Kubernetes clusters and container build pipelines; Implement secure and reproducible container image build pipelines; Collaborate with Engineering teams to harden deployments for regulated systems; Document and version deployment patterns to support automation and accreditation workflows; Support incident response, troubleshooting, and upgrade cycles.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC