Senior Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Engineer with an active Top Secret/SCI clearance to play a pivotal role in automating and orchestrating our critical infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, package, validate, and maintain versioned enterprise platform releases.
• Assemble and manage release artifacts consisting of: Infrastructure automation content (Ansible playbooks, roles, collections, Puppet modules, and related automation artifacts)
• Kubernetes application deployments
• Helm charts
• Container images
• RPM packages
• Custom platform applications
• Supporting software dependencies
• Manage versioning, dependency tracking, software inventories, Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), and authoritative release manifests.
• Maintain configuration baselines and ensure all platform components are accurately versioned, traceable, auditable, and reproducible.
• Validate release artifacts to ensure completeness, integrity, and deployment readiness prior to release.
• Coordinate vulnerability scanning of container images, RPMs, operating system packages, and other software artifacts.
• Generate, maintain, and track Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) associated with identified software and infrastructure vulnerabilities.
• Ensure software supply chain integrity by validating that release artifacts originate from approved and trusted repositories and have successfully completed required security validation activities.
• Develop and maintain release documentation, including: README.md files, Release Notes, Version manifests, Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), Installation procedures, Upgrade procedures, Rollback procedures.
• Develop and maintain automated release workflows utilizing GitLab CI/CD and related DevSecOps tooling.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity, Software Development, and Operations teams to ensure consistent, secure, and repeatable platform deployments.
• Support RMF authorization and continuous monitoring activities by providing release documentation, software inventories, SBOMs, vulnerability documentation, POA&Ms, and other configuration management artifacts required to support accreditation.

Required Qualifications

• Active Top Secret (TS) security clearance.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline and ten (10) years of relevant professional experience; or Master’s degree in a related technical discipline and five (5) years of relevant professional experience; or fifteen (15) years of relevant professional experience in lieu of a degree.
• Experience developing or maintaining infrastructure automation using technologies such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, or similar Infrastructure-as-Code solutions.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes-based environments and containerized applications.
• Experience with Git-based development workflows and source control.
• Experience developing or supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of software configuration management, release engineering, artifact management, software supply chain management, and version control principles.
• Experience supporting Linux enterprise environments.
• Strong technical writing and documentation skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting classified or disconnected environments.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD.
• Experience with Harbor or other OCI container registries.
• Experience with Helm and Kubernetes application lifecycle management.
• Experience with RKE2 or other enterprise Kubernetes distributions.
• Experience supporting software vulnerability management and container image scanning.
• Experience generating or maintaining Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs).
• Experience generating and maintaining POA&Ms for software and infrastructure vulnerabilities.
• Experience supporting RMF authorization packages and continuous monitoring activities.
• Familiarity with RMF, DISA STIGs, JSIG, secure software supply chain practices, and Configuration Management (CM) processes.
• Experience supporting enterprise Platform Engineering teams.