Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

About the role

NetServices (NSI) is seeking a Platform Engineer (Senior) to join our technical program driving the Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) cloud platform. This program delivers engineering services for Linux and Windows cloud-based infrastructure as well as sophisticated enterprise computing infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Provide IT technical services and technical expertise in systems, technical infrastructure, tools, modeling, external interfaces, and other technical areas
• Complete complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities
• Deploy and maintain infrastructure in a cloud-based environment
• Manage networking, including ingress/egress for service routing and zero-trust access
• Work with internal engineering resources as well as customer end-users to design and enhance the user interfaces for supported applications, maintaining responsive designs that accommodate challenging technical and functional requirements
• Create and maintain automated unit test cases meeting the required code coverage thresholds
• Support operations functions, including root cause identification, remediation and documentation (e.g., user guides, ‘how to’ guides, infrastructure diagrams)
• Work closely with clients and cross-functional departments on technical issues including software system troubleshooting and maintenance and to communicate project statuses
• Integrate platform components and operators; implement the deployment and monitoring for these following IaC, CaC and DevSecOps principles
• Maintain and monitor system performance
• Test new features and services and fix bugs
• Develop mature solutions for monitoring and reporting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk
• Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for DBs, Servers, and applications using DevSecOps tools to include Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Foreman, GitLab, Selenium
• Configure IdAM, Active Directory, LDAP resources
• Prepare technical presentations for government and senior leadership
• Work effectively in a group environment
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical, management and customer both written and verbally
• Utilize robust troubleshooting skills
• Instill and apply solid engineering rigor, to include configuration management, testing
• Develop/engineer as part of an Agile scrum team

Requirements

• Possess a minimum of Active TS/SCI w/ CI Polygraph
• Meet DoDD 8570 requirements (Security+ CE Certification)
• Expertise working with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), test automation, automated deployments, and / or DevSecOps on iterative development projects
• Solid ability to demonstrate solid engineering rigor
• Experience architecting and developing software/infrastructure for scalable, secure, and distributed systems on Single- or Multi-cloud environments (prefer AWS, but will consider Azure)
• Strong background in Kubernetes and cloud-native security
• Experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch etc.
• Experience architecting or integrating with workflow, case or ticketing, or automation platforms such as ServiceNow or custom-built systems
• Experience designing APIs such as REST or GraphQL and event-driven systems
• Experience integrating complex systems using APIs, message queues, streaming platforms, and ETL pipelines
• Demonstrated experience with system testing and validation
• Expert troubleshooting and solutioning skills
• Experience with Elasticsearch for search and analytics
• Experience developing environment monitoring capabilities
• Experience with Cloud architecture and system design
• Experience developing cross domain capabilities
• Strong documentation skills
• Familiar with Agile Methodologies
• Experience with Containerized Development environments (Rancher, Kubernetes)
• Expertise with automated testing tools (Selenium)
• Experience developing automated test plans for both security and functional requirements
• Knowledge of IDAM requirements and technologies including Active Directory, SAML, OpenLDAP, OAuth 2.0, and/or OIDC
• Familiarity with customer system security requirements and processes
• Preparedness and maintenance of system components
• Experience with API Gateways, catalogs
• Experience with DevOps testing
• Expertise with Active Directory

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years' relevant experience
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a STEM field is required
• Expertise working with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), test automation, automated deployments, and / or DevSecOps on iterative development projects
• Solid ability to demonstrate solid engineering rigor
• Experience architecting and developing software/infrastructure for scalable, secure, and distributed systems on Single- or Multi-cloud environments (prefer AWS, but will consider Azure)
• Strong background in Kubernetes and cloud-native security
• Experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch etc.
• Experience architecting or integrating with workflow, case or ticketing, or automation platforms such as ServiceNow or custom-built systems
• Experience designing APIs such as REST or GraphQL and event-driven systems
• Experience integrating complex systems using APIs, message queues, streaming platforms, and ETL pipelines
• Demonstrated experience with system testing and validation
• Expert troubleshooting and solutioning skills
• Experience with Elasticsearch for search and analytics
• Experience developing environment monitoring capabilities
• Experience with Cloud architecture and system design
• Experience developing cross domain capabilities
• Strong documentation skills
• Familiar with Agile Methodologies
• Experience with Containerized Development environments (Rancher, Kubernetes)
• Expertise with automated testing tools (Selenium)
• Experience developing automated test plans for both security and functional requirements
• Knowledge of IDAM requirements and technologies including Active Directory, SAML, OpenLDAP, OAuth 2.0, and/or OIDC
• Familiarity with customer system security requirements and processes
• Preparedness and maintenance of system components
• Experience with API Gateways, catalogs
• Experience with DevOps testing
• Expertise with Active Directory

Skills

• Cloud
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• DevSecOps
• Linux
• CI/CD

Benefits

NSI/Synergy ECP offers a comprehensive Health Benefits package and 401K Retirement plan, along with a variety of other perks designed to support your overall well-being and career growth. We also provide flexible work options and a generous Paid Time Off benefit, ensuring a healthy work-life balance. Additionally, we participate in numerous philanthropic efforts and encourage employee involvement in community service.

Pay

$180,000 - $220,000

Schedule

Full-time