Cloud Platform Engineer

About the role

Noblis is helping FAA manage large and complex telecommunications and information management programs. We are seeking a software solutions architect to join our team in implementing and managing the FAA’s SWIM program.

Responsibilities

• Build, harden, and operate containerized SFDPS components on Red Hat OpenShift or equivalent Red Hat-based container platforms;
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and logging necessary for FAA Efficiency Critical requirements and cloud migration;
• Design and implement container orchestration patterns in OpenShift/Kubernetes (deployments, Operators, Helm charts);
• Build and maintain production-grade CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab/ArgoCD) with automated testing and promotion workflows;
• Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and configuration management (Ansible) for reproducible environments in the FAA cloud;
• Implement observability: metrics (Prometheus), logging, tracing, and dashboards;
• Work with security and compliance teams to align deployments with FedRAMP/FISMA/FAA baseline requirements;
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analyses; drive corrective actions to improve availability and maintainability.

Requirements

• U.S. citizen or Green Card Permanent Resident (3+ years out of the last 5 years U.S. residency).
• Ability to obtain and maintain FAA Suitability.
• Bachelor of Science degree and 9 years of relevant professional experience.
• Substitutions: Associates degree and 11 years of relevant professional experience or Masters degree and 6 years of total relevant experience.
• Hands-on experience managing containerized applications, cloud platforms and software development background including robust experience with Java in building cloud-native and scalable services.
• Proficiency in a language suited for high-throughput systems, such as Java, Go, Python, or .NET backend development.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, Groovy) used to enhance CI/CD pipelines, monitoring automation, and incident response.
• Contribute actively to code reviews, application performance tuning, and troubleshoot complex multi-language application stacks.
• Hands-on with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Kubernetes primitives.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog).
• Experience operating in a FedRAMP-authorized or government cloud environment preferred.
• Proven experience with at least one major message broker, such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS.
• Experience with data serialization formats, specifically JSON, XML, Avro, or Protobuf.
• Knowledge of messaging protocols like AMQP, MQTT, JMS, or STOMP.
• Understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub-sub, and point-to-point queues.
• Comfortable collaborating across cross-functional Agile teams.

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications: Bachelor of Science degree and 9 years of relevant professional experience.
• Substitutions: Associates degree and 11 years of relevant professional experience or Masters degree and 6 years of total relevant experience.
• Hands-on experience managing containerized applications, cloud platforms and software development background including robust experience with Java in building cloud-native and scalable services.
• Proficiency in a language suited for high-throughput systems, such as Java, Go, Python, or .NET backend development.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, Groovy) used to enhance CI/CD pipelines, monitoring automation, and incident response.
• Contribute actively to code reviews, application performance tuning, and troubleshoot complex multi-language application stacks.
• Hands-on with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Kubernetes primitives.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog).
• Experience operating in a FedRAMP-authorized or government cloud environment preferred.
• Proven experience with at least one major message broker, such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS.
• Experience with data serialization formats, specifically JSON, XML, Avro, or Protobuf.
• Knowledge of messaging protocols like AMQP, MQTT, JMS, or STOMP.
• Understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, pub-sub, and point-to-point queues.
• Comfortable collaborating across cross-functional Agile teams.

Skills

• Red Hat OpenShift or RHEL-based container environments.
• C and C++ for performance-critical or legacy components—ability to read, maintain, and improve native system code.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, Groovy) used to enhance CI/CD pipelines, monitoring automation, and incident response.
• Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and Kubernetes primitives.
• Messaging protocols like AMQP, MQTT, JMS, or STOMP.
• Asynchronous messaging patterns, pub-sub, and point-to-point queues.
• Service meshes (Istio) and Kubernetes Operators.
• Message brokers (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS).
• Data serialization formats (JSON, XML, Avro, Protobuf).
• Message brokers (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Solace, or NATS).
• Asynchronous messaging patterns, pub-sub, and point-to-point queues.
• Collaborating across cross-functional Agile teams.

Benefits

At Noblis, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs. We also have an award program to recognize exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our service standards.

Pay

USD $105,100.00 - USD $164,125.00 /Yr.

Schedule

Remote/hybrid status is subject to change based on Noblis and/or government requirements.