C2 Systems Platform and Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

The Opportunity: Everyone is trying to “harness the cloud”, but not everyone knows how. As an experienced cloud computing infrastructure architect, you know how to take advantage of cloud capabilities. Here, you’ll oversee our team of experienced professionals and use cutting-edge enterprise cloud platforms to guide your clients as they modernize their IT infrastructure and meet their most challenging missions.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team of experienced professionals in designing, deploying, and hardening the containerized foundation beneath next-generation C2 systems.
• Collaborate with fellow cloud architects and engineers specializing in GitLab CI, Jenkins, and ArgoCD or Flux to design, deploy, and harden the containerized foundation beneath next-generation C2 systems.
• Create and manage container apps using products like Kubernetes to further the mission.
• Explore different ways of solving clients’ problems within a DevOps framework.
• Partner with stakeholders and lead your team to deliver the right technical solutions.

Requirements

• Experience operating Kubernetes at production scale, including cluster deployment, day-2 operations, upgrades, and security hardening.
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, and ArgoCD or Flux.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management using Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience implementing and operating an observability stack such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience designing and deploying systems in secure, air-gapped, or DDIL environments.
• Ability to translate mission and reliability requirements into resilient, automated platform designs.
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or Engineering and 8+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering, including technical leadership on production systems, or 12+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering, including technical leadership on production systems, in lieu of a degree.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II Security+ CE Certification.

Skills

• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, or Consul, for traffic management, mTLS, and observability.
• Experience deploying and sustaining containerized platforms in DoD environments, including Platform One, Big Bang, or Iron Bank.
• Experience engineering for the tactical edge and hardening deployments for DDIL and disconnected operations.
• Experience with C2, ISR, or other mission-critical DoD systems and their operational constraints.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including container scanning, STIG compliance, and policy enforcement such as OPA or Gatekeeper, and Kyverno.
• Experience with secrets management and Zero Trust patterns such as HashiCorp Vault and SPIFFE or SPIRE.
• Achieving and maintaining an Authority to Operate (ATO), continuous ATO, or RMF accreditation.

Benefits

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Certification.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or similar Cloud Certification.

Pay

$112,900.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD).

Schedule

Remote, Hybrid, or Onsite.